Relationships

Healthy relationships are key to building a great life. So how do we deal with the pain often experienced there? What role is forgiveness supposed to play? How do we do that authentically when it’s especially difficult for us?

Peter’s famous denial of Christ is about more than threefold repitition: it is a progression of doubts that reveal how fragile our faith can be if we lack humility and vulnerability. In the same way, however, it becomes a progression toward the lasting source of faith: a living relationship with the resurrected Christ, who gives us strength when we have none.

Is there a key that unlocks the meaning of the Bible and helps us to find deep enjoyment in it?

The Christian life is about more than what we believe; it’s also, just as importantly, about how we believe. The church should reflect the freedom and diversity of Jesus’ message, as interested in the form of our community as we are to the content of our faith.

Though anger has tremendous potential to destroy relationships, peacemaking has tremendous potential to save them.

Life’s anxieties are overcome by repairing broken relationships, rejoicing in all circumstances, and receiving the grace of Christ, through whom all our joys will be made complete.