Anger Doesn’t Get a Seat at Our Sunday Table
When the same family blowup keeps replaying, an apology isn’t enough. Here’s what Joseph, Judah, and Peter taught me about boundaries, real change, and restoration.
When the same family blowup keeps replaying, an apology isn’t enough. Here’s what Joseph, Judah, and Peter taught me about boundaries, real change, and restoration.
Why do we sometimes hurt the people we love the most? Inspired by Chip Ingram’s sermon, this personal reflection explores what James 4 teaches about selfishness, pride, broken families, forgiveness, and the difficult road toward reconciliation.
Family estrangement is becoming increasingly common, but is something deeper happening? From the misuse of psychological labels to the growing acceptance of cutting people off, I examine how division destroys families and why biblical truth, repentance, and reconciliation matter more than ever.
Closure doesn’t always come with answers, apologies, or reconciliation. Sometimes it means owning our mistakes, grieving what was lost, forgiving what we cannot change, and trusting God enough to move forward.
In Luke 15, the prodigal son returns home expecting judgment, but his father does something extraordinary, he runs to meet him. Inspired by the song “When God Ran,” this reflection explores repentance, grace, forgiveness, and the incredible love of God.
Can you love someone and hate them at the same time? Through David, Absalom, Psalm 55, and my own broken marriage, I wrestle with love, betrayal, anger, compassion, forgiveness, and the danger of allowing hatred to have the final word.
Almost twenty years ago, a child-support mistake led to a warrant, jail, job loss, and more—even though I had the receipts. This is what that season taught me about false accusations, forgiveness, and trusting the God who always knew the whole story.
False accusations can damage reputations, relationships, and lives. Chuck Swindoll’s teaching from Job offers powerful biblical lessons about staying calm, speaking truth, trusting God, and refusing to let accusations define you.
Bitterness rarely begins as bitterness. It starts with hurt, anger, betrayal or injustice and slowly tightens its grip. Using Scripture and the imagery of Tourniquet’s “Enveloped in Python,” this article explores the danger of allowing bitterness to take root, and why we must refuse to let it control us.
How long must I be punished? After more than a year separated from my children, stalled reconciliation, and consequences that stretch years into the future, I’m wrestling with injustice, forgiveness, fatherhood, and what it means to trust God while I wait.