Rediscovering Redemption

How would you respond to a second chance? In a previous career, the author was the HR Manager in a Christian-owned inner-city business where there were employees who had completed the Teen Challenge program. These employees, once restored and given a second chance, were some of the most loyal and

If you are a believer in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, you’ve got to read this! In a research study published in January 2010, the Society for Human Resources Management conducted a survey of 433 randomly selected HR professionals from SHRM’s membership to determine the extent of background checks

“Come close to God, and God will come close to you.” (James 4:8a, NLT) Funny but it did not specifically occur to me until today. I generally start each year with a similar approach to many people: I review my past year’s goals, and I set some new goals for

These are the stories that cause knots in my stomach, and bring tears to my eyes. I sit here in Panera, drinking coffee, reflecting on a completed first semester in a new university. But my mind returns to the stories of redemption, easy to find on a daily basis, and

The actual sitting before the Lord and declaring all that He has done for oneself in praise and thanksgiving is a cleansing and redemptive practice. One of my most favorite scenes in the Bible is the time after David the king had found rest from his enemies and began to

Just as an aside, I know the site is entitled “Rediscovering Redemption.” So do all my posts need to include “redemption” in the title? No, not really. Just seems to work out that way. I have been reading up on one Tim Tebow, the very up-front Christian athlete, who after

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the

“We must therefore pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away. For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding, and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment, how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?” (Hebrews

A few weeks ago it was reported that a former major league baseball pitcher, Hideki Irabu, was found dead in his home in California. Irabu’s body hung undiscovered in his hilltop house for days after the troubled former Yankees hurler took his own life with a rope, according to reports.

There is a tenderness to the picture of redemption sweeping in. It is akin to all of those movies we love to watch, where the hero or heroine is moments away from disaster, and the cavalry rides in to the rescue. Here is a poignant picture from the Psalms of