Fellow believer, here’s how we must deal with shame

I used to work at a grocery store meat department when I was in college, and one day, I started chatting with a young woman and her little girl. Her daughter had a rotten tooth and — I don’t know what I was thinking — I smiled and said: “Looks like somebody needs to brush her teeth!” The mom glared at me and said: “Looks like somebody needs to learn their manners.” A few days later, I saw the lady and her daughter at the grocery store and I apologized. Both the woman and her daughter were gracious and forgave…

I told a huge lie — and I’ll never forget how God handled it

February 17, 2019 Categories: Growing PainsTags: forgiveness · grace · shame · sin

When I was 18, I told the most elaborate lie of my life and I did it because I was lazy. I worked at the meat department of a grocery store where the assistant manager, Harold Johnson (a pseudonym), was known for recruiting meat department employees to stock shelves. That wasn’t my job and I was determined to avoid it.

Clawing Away at our Brokenness

July 19, 2015September 16, 2017 Categories: Trusting GodTags: grace · guilt · healing · shame1 Comment

When I was a teenager, I was grateful that I had few zits on my face. I hated, however, the fact that I had them all over my back. It was a social hazard to go swimming or change my shirt around other teens. I couldn’t bear the thought of my peers seeing my acne-covered back and being grossed out by me. So I did the only thing I knew to effectively get rid of it: I baked my fair skin in the sun until it burned.

Joshua Rogers

Finding God in the Ordinary

Tag: shame

Fellow believer, here’s how we must deal with shame

I told a huge lie — and I’ll never forget how God handled it

Clawing Away at our Brokenness