In this episode of The Gen X Disciple, Patrick speaks to anyone whose past still plays on repeat—those chapters you wish you could tear out, the decisions you’d undo, the relationships you broke, and the years you lost to drifting or self-destruction. Anchored in Isaiah 43:18–19, he unpacks God’s promise to exiles who had genuinely made catastrophic choices: “Forget the former things… see, I am doing a new thing.”

Through a Gen X lens, Patrick talks honestly about regret, labels that feel permanent, and the lie that your worst season is your whole story. He contrasts shame with grace and reminds listeners that God is not in the business of condemning you with your past, but redeeming it—that in Christ, your past is covered, and it doesn’t get to define what God does next.

You’ll be invited to write down one thing from your past you’ve been carrying that God has already forgiven, physically cross it out, and declare by faith that it no longer owns your identity or future.