How to Be a Sinner
When learning to let go, we can’t trust our controlling instincts or fear of pain. We must rely on another to teach us surrender. And this is why surrendering to God’s sovereign care is essential to our faith.
Jon Tyson • The Burden Is Light: Liberating Your Life from the Tyranny of Performance and Success
Reinhold Niebuhr defined sin as a human tendency towards self-importance, failure, and moral corruption. He believed that sin occurs when people try to find security outside of the relationship between time and eternity, and when they refuse to acknowledge their limitations as creatures. Niebuhr believed that people sin by pretending to be more tha... See more
The mask is in some ways like the Pharisee of Christ’s time—putting on a show of goodness or power or respectability that is inauthentic. Christ felt so much more attracted to the sinners because he sensed their genuineness. Their negativity was neither denied nor justified; their flaws and their pain were much more apparent and thus their hearts w
... See moreEva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
sin and failure are, in fact, the setting and opportunity for the transformation and enlightenment of the offender—and then the future will take care of itself.