Almost Peaceful: My Journey of Healing from Binge EatingFriendship, Listening, and Empathy: A Prayer GuideDraw Near: A Lenten Devotional Two Hands: Grief and Gratitude in the Christian LifeSabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest Fasting: Spiritual Freedom Beyond our AppetitesA Renewed SpiritualityNurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Power of ListeningJoy Together: Spiritual Practices for Your CongregationPrayers of the New TestamentPrayers of the Old TestamentPersonality Type in CongregationsSabbathA Garden of Living Water: Stories of Self-Discovery and Spiritual GrowthDead Sea: A NovelDeadly Murmurs: A NovelDeath in Dunedin: A NovelBeating Burnout in CongregationsReaching Out in a Networked WorldEmbracing MidlifeFriendingAdvent Devotional

Forgiveness on the journey

Lynne Baab • Wednesday December 10 2025

Forgiveness on the journey

In Christ, we are forgiven. We are called to forgive others. In Jesus’s lesson on prayer for his disciples, he gave us these words to pray: “Forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.” All of the various translations of Matthew 6:12 indicate that forgiving others is a normative part of following Jesus.

Praise God for those moments when forgiveness comes automatically and easily. For me, forgiveness has often been a journey. I want to describe three movements in my understanding of forgiveness.

1. A command that I simply couldn’t do. As I described in my recent book, I...

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Our way maker on the journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday December 2 2025

Our way maker on the journey

“Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, Light in the darkness. My God, that is who You are.”

Nigerian Gospel singer Sinach won Song of the Year for "Way Maker" at the 2020 Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards. She is the first Nigerian to win that award. The song was released in 2015.

“Way maker” is an evocative way to describe God. We can bring so many interpretations to that name. Many of them are relevant for this series of blog posts on life as a journey. I want to give you three of the connections that come to my mind when I think of the...

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Imposter syndrome on the journey

Lynne Baab • Monday November 24 2025

Imposter syndrome on the journey

Recently, after the Sunday morning service at church, a man I know came over to talk to me. He reminded me that his home group is reading and discussing my little book, Two Hands: Grief and Gratitude in the Christian Life. He said they had just discussed Chapter Five, which focuses on a plethora of voices in our culture and inside ourselves that deny grief and gratitude.

He said the entire evening’s discussion focused on what I had written about imposter syndrome — two sentences! Everyone in the group had stories to tell about how they felt like an imposter in various settings,...

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Moments that matter on the journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday November 18 2025

Moments that matter on the journey

In 2014, my husband Dave and I were living in Dunedin, New Zealand. My mother would celebrate her 90th birthday in late October, so we made plans to spend a few weeks in Seattle and Tacoma around the time of her birthday. We arrived in mid-October to the blaze of red, yellow, and orange trees, highlighted against the gorgeous firs and cedars that are common here. As the weeks of our visit rolled along, the leaves started falling. In light winds, the leaves swirled and danced.

I never liked fall. For me, all those bright trees indicated that the months of darkness,...

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Meeting God in Grief and Gratitude

Lynne Baab • Wednesday January 22 2025

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Yes, Jesus Told Us to Pray in Secret. But He Also Prayed with His Friends.

Lynne Baab • Saturday October 9 2021

By Lynne M. Baab. Originally published in Christianity Today, July 8, 2021