What do we do with the mistakes we cannot seem to shake? In this sermon, Pastor Tom Pace argues that God does not simply erase our sins and mistakes from our story but rather redeems them and weaves them into a narrative of transformation. Drawing on the language of 1 John and the writings of Paul, he makes the case that our identity is not defined by a clean slate but by being "a sinner of God's own redeeming." Rather than encouraging people to forget their failures, he invites them to surrender those failures to God and ask God to use them as raw material for transformation and witness. The result is not a cleaned-up version of ourselves with no history, but a transformed person whose full story, including the hard parts, becomes the very ground where God works most powerfully.