I rarely heard about, or witnessed, grace in my younger years. When I attended Bible college much of my doctrine was reinforced through classes that also rarely stressed grace. I was taught to play biblical hop-scotch with verses pulled from contexts to win debates.
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Requests and gratitude. They form a big part of our prayers and relationship with God. But we can learn a lot by exploring the origin of “please” and “thank you.”
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I’m not a parent that other parents envy. No one ever wants to swap kids with me. Even a dad who told me that Eva was cuter than his baby gave up any ideas of switching once he’d spent a few hours with her.
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For some time now I have been concerned about “our” (perhaps only my own) understanding of the “doctrine” of grace. It is true that we,…
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The question found in the title above terrified me in my early Christian years. And I suspect many other Christians agonize over whether or not…
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I searched the websites of the major George’s (Gallup, Barna, and Curious) this morning hoping to find data regarding an important matter. I’m curious to…
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No question about it! Effective Christian ministry is rooted deep in the grace of God. To begin anywhere else is to begin at the wrong…
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Paul was a boaster. He boasted, of course, only in the cross of Christ and what it means. There is no boasting on a personal…
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In my Christian tradition, we recently rediscovered grace (cut us a little slack…we’re a few years behind other groups on a few things).
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Getting Past Guilt by Joe Beam is an encouraging book that gets right to the heart of the questions that steal the joy God intends for your life.
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Pertaining to our discussion(s) below about “falling” from grace I would like to ask a few questions to clear the matter up for me. An…
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“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now, I…
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