Category: Kintsugi and Redemption

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption  —   Key Scripture: Ruth 4:13-17 I left Naomi somewhere heavy — renamed Mara, bitter, openly holding God responsible for a grief that hadn’t resolved and wasn’t asked to. I didn’t tie that up neatly, because I don’t think it should have been tied up neatly. But the book of Ruth doesn’t…

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: Ezekiel 36:26 There’s a promise in Ezekiel that I think gets treated too often as historical — something that happened once, long ago, in a theological sense, rather than something with real implications for how a person navigates an actual Tuesday. “And I will give you a new…

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: Luke 5:12-13 There’s a two-word answer in Luke 5 that I think carries more weight than many sermons. A man covered with leprosy sees Jesus and falls on his face, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean”. Everything about that sentence reveals how this man…

Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: Luke 22:31-34 There’s a conversation in Luke 22 that I think only makes sense in light of how long Jesus and Peter had already known each other. “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you…

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,…