KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: We must be weak to receive God’s grace properly. When God gives us grace, and we DO receive it properly, we work with it, diligently, to multiple God’s glory! When you understand the value of God’s currency (grace) in this life, you want to SPEND it!
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At the writing of this blog, I am fifty-four years old. In the history of my life, I cannot recall experiencing so much rain in a single year. I feel like I live in London or something, or maybe Ireland. It’s unbelievable. There is a small pond across the street in a vacant field which
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: What’s the greatest news you’ve ever heard? His perfect (complete) love secures our salvation, even despite our times of doubt. Christ’s resurrection was to settle the case in YOUR heart (not God’s). God reveals the great things about Himself by revealing Himself to us. While the penalty for sin was
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: What’s the greatest news you’ve ever heard? Christ’s resurrection was to settle the case in YOUR heart (not God’s). God reveals the great things about Himself by revealing Himself to us. While the penalty for sin was paid for at the Cross, it was Christ’s resurrection that vindicated Christ, nullified
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I am not known for being a patient person, quite the opposite, actually. I usually face this weakness comically- you know, joke about it so it does not seem so bad. However, this flaw has been becoming more and more painful to me as I ponder both when and with whom I am most impatient.
I often teach about ‘abiding in the sphere of God’s love’, or more succinctly, ‘abiding in the sphere of God’. They are, in fact, the same reality, but when I add the word “love” to the idea, something wonderful seems to wash over my brothers and sisters in the faith. And it never gets old.
KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: We must be weak to receive God’s grace properly. It’s great to bask in the glory of God’s grace, but it’s not right to think it gives us license to live however we want. All Things Are Lawful – blog 3/22/24 While Christ’s sacrifice covers the sins of God’s children, this
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: We must be weak to receive God’s grace properly. All Things Are Lawful – blog 3/22/24 While Christ’s sacrifice covers the sins of God’s children, this doesn’t mean that we are given liberty to sin even more! We mustn’t confuse our eternal position in Christ with our progressive sanctification while here
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In Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians, four times he borrowed a saying that was common at the time, “All things are lawful.” This was something that apparently the folks in Corinth, known for their gross immorality, would’ve understood as justification for licentiousness. This saying, “All things are lawful,” became a slogan for liberty. Their justification would’ve been that
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KEY MESSAGES IN THIS MESSAGE: Don’t ever shortchange His grace in your life. Rely upon God’s grace just as much now as you did when you first turned to Him for salvation. Rely upon His grace for ALL things in your life! Between Black and White – blog 3/15/24 We’ve all been given a good conscience.
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