Semper Reformanda

Semper reformanda (“always reforming”) is one of the enduring slogans often associated with the Protestant Reformation. The idea was that, until we are glorified, we will always be changing and growing.  Sometimes slow. Sometimes bumpy. Often ugly. But always growing!

October 31, 2017 marked the beginning of the 500th year, since the Protestant Reformation began, triggered by a German monk nailing an invitation to a church door, requesting a dialogue over the reform of a corrupted church.

Last week, I bought tickets to fly my family to visit this very place, where this spiritual revolution began.

Today, Feb 1st, 2018, I am starting a blog, inspired by that Reformation.  I want to devote the weeks leading up to our trip to recording some of the things God has formed and reformed in me:  about Him, about myself, about marriage, about family, about life in general and specific.

Maybe, some day, my children will look back on this and it will help them to change something in their life, that moves them a step or two closer to what God has planned for them. Or maybe not.  But either way.

~Dad

Phil 3:¹³ "Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."