Tag: Forgiveness
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Day 134: The Lexicon of Restoration (Psalm 51)
God’s vocabulary of grace is deeper than our vocabulary of sin.
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Day 120: What God Does is Who God Is (Psalm 103)
In Psalm 103, God doesn’t just perform acts of forgiveness, healing, and redemption—He is those things. He is the Forgiving, the Healing, the Redeeming. His grace doesn’t flow from what we do, but from who He is.
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Parables of Priorities on the Way to Jerusalem (Luke 15)
In Luke 15, Jesus tells three parables about lost things—a sheep, a coin, and a son. Each story ends the same way: with rejoicing when what was lost is found. But the most famous of these stories, often called the Prodigal Son, reveals something even deeper about God’s priorities. The younger son is lost in…
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Day 002: Two Songs, Two Math Problems (Genesis 4:23-24)
In Genesis, Lamech sings vengeance by the numbers. In the Gospels, Jesus answers with forgiveness that outnumbers it. What changed wasn’t the math—it was the song.
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Day 319: The Sweet Aroma of Redemption (John 21:9-12)
When Peter smelled the charcoal fire on the shore of Galilee, he was pulled back to the night of his greatest failure. But Jesus didn’t build that fire to shame him—He built it to restore him. Jesus didn’t need the fish that morning. He wanted the fisherman.
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Day 296: The “Problem” of John 8:1-11
Many readers are startled to see a warning in their Bibles that the story of the woman caught in adultery isn’t in the earliest manuscripts. Does that mean it didn’t happen? In this post, James explores why this beloved passage moves around the manuscripts—and why its “interruption” may be exactly where it belongs.