You Can Be or Do Anything

‘You can be anything you want to be’, ‘You can do anything you want to do.’

These are sayings which you might hear thrown around in our culture from time to time. They normally come from people who have struggled hard and have accomplished something impressive. Their struggle either had to do with the size of the obstacle or their fear of attempting it. They are typically the statements of winners, not losers.

ArticlePeter Sondergeld2 December 2019Dreams, Plans, Hebrews, Jeremiah, Study, Impossible, Impossibilities, Speaker Page, Knowing God, Peter SondergeldComment

Everything is Contested

There is a contest for people’s hearts. There is an ongoing moral contest in our culture. Every temptation you face is a contest, and every advance of the kingdom of God is a contest because it takes more of the enemy’s territory. Whether you like it or not – you were born into a contested space. You live in a war zone.

Find Something Good to Do

When it all comes down to it, when you boil it down, the recipe for your day is pretty simple. Find something good to do.

ArticlePeter Sondergeld24 September 2019Work, Relationships, Titus, Knowing God, Popular, Peter Sondergeld Comment

It's Only You

One night last week the frustration was acute and I fell asleep lamenting. I woke up around 2 am the next morning with these words.

ArticleHenrietta Lee24 September 2019Restoration Groups, Psalm, Personal Struggle, Prayer, Knowing God, Guest Post, Guest, Guest WriterComment

Getting Clean

Sin contaminates. It makes you dirty. Sometimes you know it and sometimes you don’t. There are at least two different ways people react when they become aware they are contaminated – they either give up trying to be clean or get to work cleaning themselves.

ArticlePeter Sondergeld30 August 2019Peter Sondergeld, Hope, Restoration, Freedom, Guilt, Sin, Sin & Suffering, SufferingComment

Be Strong

In a house with four sons, being strong is important. I don’t know how many times I have overheard conversations about who is the fastest or the smartest, who can jump the highest or who can make the best tackle, who can think the fastest or who has the most brute strength. In one way or another, being strong is the order of the day in the Sondergeld house.

Getting There

There are at least two ways to get where you want to go. You can work out how to get there yourself or someone can lead you there.

ArticlePeter Sondergeld25 June 2019Peter Sondergeld, Plans, 121, Knowing GodComment

I Am The Worst

This is what shame says to you.
This is what shame says about you.
It is easy to believe and hard to dislodge.

A Different Kind of Courier

You are a courier. Not a drug courier or a parcel courier. A grace and peace courier.

ArticleRestore Ministries27 April 2019Peter Sondergeld, Grace, Paul, Relationships & Community, Relationships, CommunityComment

Sometimes You Just Need to Stop

We are a curious mob. We like to know why people do what they do. We like to know why we do what we do. Knowing the whys and wherefores of human behaviour is helpful in locating the starting point for change in ourselves and others.

ArticleRestore Ministries4 April 2019Peter Sondergeld, Anxiety, Change, Speaker Page, Knowing GodComment

A Surprise in the Sadness

I went to my cousin’s funeral the other day. It was sad – for a bunch of reasons. It was sad because a man had died. It was sad because he was young. It was sad because he had three kids he left behind. His life had been difficult. He had struggled with many things and his passing will leave a permanent scar on his family, but in the middle of the sadness, surrounded by people who share my last name, a strange feeling snuck up on me. A feeling I wasn’t looking for and didn’t expect.