Kevin's Theogrimage

Hi friends, As some of you may know, I have been working on a book, titled  A Curious Faith: Love, Loss and Living. In it, I share my personal wrestling with the claims of the Christian faith and my stumbling upon grace and how this reorients my life. Having lost my brother last year, I also share on the reality of loss, as well as the dread and the hope that characterize our journeys of grieving. In this book, I have striven to compel others that the family of God is open to all who are willing to trust in Him and that a life of Faith gives meaning through all of life's seasons. Find here an excerpt from the book: ------- A Curious Faith Love, Loss and Living KEVIN MURIITHI      A Curious Faith: Love, Loss and Living Copyright © 2016 by Kevin Muriithi. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photoco

I had this piece sitting in my laptop since December, and I should have shared much earlier. Nonetheless, there is a time for everything.  This exposition has to do with a biblical view of guilt within the believer’s life. There are times that a truth sips into the soul so profoundly, that one sits bewildered, and amazed. I participated in a conference in December that reminded me of some foundational truths for the Christian life and hope which resulted in a deepening joy and assurance in Christ. One of the issues I have struggled with over the course of my Christian walk is the issue of sin in the believer's life. In my analysis, based on Christian Scripture, two underlying issues are involved: i) a faulty understanding of sin; ii) dealing with the guilt of sin.  For the first issue, I shall offer here a summarized overview. A wrong misconception, I think, among some Christians is the idea that once we trust in Jesus Christ, we become perfect. This idea of "sinlessness