Failure is one of those subjects we would often rather discuss at a safe distance. We can analyse somebody else’s failed project, read a case study about an outage, or admire a biblical story of restoration because we already know how it ends. It is much harder when the thing that has broken is ours. …
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Series:Octobers 2026 - Failure & Redemption
Redeemed Failures (Romans 8:28)
Failure can make a promise about our future that it has no authority to make. It tells us that because something went wrong, everything that follows must be defined by it. A poor decision becomes our identity. A missed opportunity becomes proof that another will never come. A relationship that has broken becomes evidence that …
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Learning From Bugs: Failures That Teach
Every programmer eventually creates a bug that makes them stare at the screen and wonder how they ever thought the code was correct. Sometimes the mistake is trivial: a misspelled variable, an incorrect comparison, an off-by-one error. Sometimes it survives testing, reaches production and affects real users. Bugs are frustrating, but they are also teachers. …
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Repentance and Renewal
Repentance can sound like a word belonging mainly to sermons about wrongdoing. Yet at its heart, repentance is about turning. It is the moment when we stop defending the direction in which we have been travelling and allow God to redirect us. That makes repentance inseparable from renewal. More than feeling sorry Regret and repentance …
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Post-Mortems Done Well
When a serious technical incident ends, everyone wants to move on. The service is back. Customers can log in again. The urgent messages have stopped. The exhausted team would rather close the ticket and return to normal work. That is exactly when one of the most valuable parts of incident response should begin: the post-mortem. …
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The God Who Restores
Restoration is one of the great themes of Christian hope. We encounter it whenever something valuable has been damaged or lost: trust, confidence, relationship, purpose, time or a sense of closeness to God. Our instinct is often to imagine restoration as putting everything back exactly as it was. God’s restoration is frequently more creative than …
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Why Systems Fail (and What We Can Learn)
When a system fails, the temptation is to look for the broken component. Which server crashed? Which query timed out? Which developer introduced the defect? Sometimes there is a simple answer. More often, modern systems fail because several individually manageable weaknesses interact. Understanding that changes how we design, operate and learn. Systems are more than …
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