The Identity Journey September 2025

Right or Wrong?

When our daughter was earning her master's degree, she took some classes in Professional Ethics. During the class, the professor introduced various situations in which the students needed to determine what was the most ethical or right action to take.

Most of us might think this would be an easy class, because there is a clear right decision and an obvious wrong decision.

But, in many of the situations presented, once a person argued their obvious reasons for the action they would take, another student in the class would bring up points or facts that could support the opposite decision. Throughout this course, the professor was trying to get the students to recognize that identifying right or wrong was not as obvious as we may initially think.

So, the question we are forced to ask is whether there is an objective right and wrong? Is right and wrong more of an individual decision based on the situation?

As we extend this discussion to include identity, is there really a right identity for a person or can each person select their own identity for each situation?

A quote commonly attributed to George Bernard Shaw communicates the world's perspective.

The world's perspective is that there is no right identity for us to discover or live into. We are relegated to a life of constant trial and error in the process of creating our own identity. Never knowing when or if we have found the best one for us, or just settling for one that we think is good enough.

That sounds frustrating and futile and does not communicate the Biblical or God's perspective.

This month we are focusing on the central aspect of God's identity, that He is righteous.

There is an absolute and objective right found only in God Himself. As we know God, we can also know what is right, including the right identity for us.

Join us as we go counter to our current culture and state that God is righteous so I can be...

Book Update and Request

Please pray with us as we are working with the publisher in getting the Redeeming Identity book closer to publication.

This past month has had its challenging moments, trying to get the page layout for the book the way that it needs to be. We have been praying that we get the right artists and layout specialists to work with us, with the same dedication to excellence as they prepare this manuscript for publication.

We should be moving out of the page layout process soon and moving into creating the cover art. As we are deciding on the art for this book, I may be reaching out for opinions from some of you. We want to make sure that the cover art is going to capture people's attention, while also communicating the heart of the book.

With each step we are getting closer to a finished book, which also means that launching the book is getting closer.

This is where we need your help!

Really!!! We need your help with this part!

We need to build a strong launch team that will help us share the news that the Redeeming Identity book is being published. For publishing a book, this means building a strong email list and Facebook following to keep people informed of the impending publication and release of the book. This is extremely important, because the more people following us, the more likely we can get the book into stores around the country.

You can help us in this process in some specific ways.

• Please share this email with people you and encourage them to sign up to receive this email. Not only will it build our email list, they will get access to the amazing content we create to encourage them to know God.
• If you can't share the email, just send people to our website: redeemingidentity.com. When there, they will have the opportunity to sign up for the email list while exploring all of the content we provide.

• If you are on Facebook, please do two things. (1) Follow us so you can get our posts. (2) When you get a post, please share it with your followers. This helps get the information about the coming book and what we are doing out to more people. Also, the more followers and likes it receives, moves the post's up on Facebook's process.

We will be doing some specific work building towards the release of the book, but we would appreciate your help, our friends, family and supporters, to share the news of the book and the message that it is communicating.

If you need anything from us to help as you share the news of the upcoming release of the book, Redeeming Identity, please let us know.

​God is Always Right

Website

I am always looking for ways to improve the website, making it more user-friendly and easy to access the different resources.

This past month, we have re-formatted the HE so I Project webpage to focus the front page on the attribute of the month. The podcasts and Bible studies from previous months are going to be accessed on different archive pages.

Please take a moment to look at the updated webpage and let us know what you think.

​HE so I Project webpage ​

Podcast

The HE so I Project is an ongoing study focused on discovering the identity of God, so we can also allow Him to show us who we were created to be. One aspect of this is our podcast, where the hosts invite others to listen to a discussion focused on God, who He is and what that means for who we are called to be. This month, we will be discussing that God is righteous.

Part 1 of Episode 6, "God is Always Right", of the HE so I Project podcast will be released Tuesday, September 9. This first part of the podcast typically focuses on the specific attribute of God, so we can develop a better understanding of who "He is". Part 2 of the episode will be released on Tuesday, September 23, which will be focused on what God's righteousness means for who we can be, "...so I can be."

Below is a trailer for this episode of the podcast to help get you ready for what is coming.

We will send an email on Tuesday to remind you of the release of Part 1 of the "God is Always Right" episode.

As you are enjoying the conversation on the podcast don't forget to get the Bible study for this month. This is provided so you have the opportunity to go beyond the podcast, allowing God to teach you about Himself as you spend time with Him.

God's Glory Gallery

What does sheep have to do with God's righteousness?

As we are working to build up our God's Glory Gallery, our featured picture will be of some mountain sheep taken during a recent trip to the Rocky Mountains.

We will be providing an article that discusses God's righteousness and how we can reflect His righteousness, as part of our identity.

The release of this article will be later this month.

We look forward to your feedback and questions about the article.