Like the art of kintsugi, God redeems what is broken and makes it even more beautiful in a fallen world. It is good to recall that God is engaged in the business of redeeming people as broken objects and re-creating them as vessels of grace and beauty for His eternal purposes. “For ...
Let the variety of birds remind you that I value uniqueness. Celebrate who I’ve made you to be: the colors of your personality, the pattern of your life, the song of gifts and talents I’ve given you to share with the world, the habits of goodness I’ve formed in you to impact o...
With Amenadiel, having his faith in his Father restored after learning He entrusted the Key to the Flaming Sword to him, believed God was testing him to redeem Lucifer in order to regain his divinity.[33] However, after many failed endeavors and interpretations of what God wanted, Amenadiel ...
If the Israelites had chosen not to have a relationship with God, then Jesus would never have come to redeem the world. In this article, I have discussed the human relationship with God, given divine simplicity—namely, how God and creation relate to each other. Now we can better ...
redeem themselves as Angels. This is sort of where the legend of purgatory came from although it’s not a hellish scenario. They are with all the good Angels or spirits. From our Archangel birth most of us will ascend to Godhood status and create our own Universes within the great Macro...
When people ask why everything is wrong in the world, we can point to sin – and it’s in everyone’s heart. Only the grace of God through the blood of Christ can redeem us, but we must trust in Christ and follow His example with the help of the Holy Spirit to be able to live...
“For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” Isaiah 61:11 I know God intends to redeem America but we must do our part. Th...
healing is possible. God lets even one-time monsters into heaven. The father-son story is painful–the damage visited upon the next generation because of sin is heart-wrenching. The masks we wear to hide our childhood trauma or other suffering do not redeem us. The only way to a new pla...
God didn’t wait until I cleaned up and made myself presentable to redeem me, He came when I was still a mess. A 13-year-old kid who nevertheless somehow knew that I needed saving. And I still do, every single day. We all do. I grasped my mom’s hand for strength back then, ...
Last but not least, both Thor and Darth Vader had something to fight for: their love for their children, and their desire to finally redeem themselves. In Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, Thor is referred to as Vulcan (whose Greek counterpart is the God Hephaestus). Vulcan and Hephaestus, ...