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Back to EpisodesHomily | July 30, 2026 | Holiness Means Letting God Start Again | (Episode 214)
Description
We picture God as a potter who keeps reshaping what collapses, turning failures into a new beginning instead of a dead end. We connect Jeremiah’s clay, Peter’s setbacks, confession, and Jesus’ warning about judgment to ask one simple question: will we let God form us.
• God as the potter who starts again after the collapse
• Holiness as refusing to reject God’s hands
• Peter as the cracked vessel who becomes the rock
• Confession as the potter’s workshop of mercy
• The danger of a hardened heart and the slow drift of compromise
• The net in the Gospel as a reminder of judgment and direction
• The final measure being openness to God’s shaping, not success or status
• Practical places we resist grace: forgiveness, prayer, resentment, repeated sins, fear of the future
Don’t resist the potter’s hands
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