Below are a few short articles, video blogs, and more, that we think you might find useful.
It's no surprise that the pandemic has had a significant impact on our relationships. As Christmas draws closer, the hope of the new year looms large and we spend time with love ones the question is raised... do our relationships depend upon agreement? And, if they don't, what is more important? Watch as Peter shares the kind of people we want to be when it comes to our relationships with one another in a world where differences can loom large.
Read MorePeter shares an end of 2021 Restore Ministries update as we look forward to the year ahead. You will find out more about how you can connect in with Restore Ministries in 2022 and what we are hoping for in this video!
Read MoreIt’s no secret 2020 has not been the year anyone envisioned, and if your lived experience is anything like mine, it’s been splattered with emotion and physical family separation, and for some of us this Christmas is the first time we will have physically been present with one another all year. Our heart at Restore Ministries is to equip you to map the grace of God onto the details of life. So the question here is: how do we join together with family and friends this year, and bring forward love, not push into unnecessary conflict?
Read More“It’s all good.” I have heard this saying countless times, and I have said it many times myself. But today it snagged me - today I noticed the intention behind the saying.
We use the phrase “It’s all good” to hose down fear or concern in others. We use it to reassure. “Whatever concerns or fears you have right now, they don’t fit the moment, you don’t need to worry. There isn’t any problem.”
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThis is what shame says to you.
This is what shame says about you.
It is easy to believe and hard to dislodge.
You are a courier. Not a drug courier or a parcel courier. A grace and peace courier.
Read MoreI 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.
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