Category: Kintsugi and Redemption

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: Luke 15:11-32 There are three views of the same person in Luke 15, and the gap between them is where I think this parable does its deepest work. The younger son, having demanded his inheritance early and wasted it completely, finally comes to himself in a pig pen,…

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: Judges 6-7 There’s a scene in Judges 6 that I think describes identity crisis better than most. Gideon is threshing wheat in a wine press — not on a hilltop where the wind could actually separate the grain from the chaff, but hidden low in a pit, out…

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: Isaiah 64:8, Jeremiah 18:3-4 “Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.” — Isaiah 64:8 “So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot…

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: John 5:6-9 “When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be healed?’ The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water…

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption | Key Scripture: Isaiah 61:3 In Japan, there is an ancient art form called Kintsugi. When a piece of pottery breaks, rather than discarding it or hiding the damage with invisible repairs, the artist mends the cracks with gold. The broken places become the most beautiful part of the piece. The…