KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: We must be weak to receive God’s grace properly. Specifically, regarding the human race, grace is how God glorifies Himself through mere vessels/instruments. In summary, the high priests on the Day of Atonement would offer sacrifices for the sins of Israel to temporarily satisfy God’s wrath.
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There’s an old secular saying that goes, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” In other words, the first time you caught me off-guard and unprepared, which means you took advantage of my naivete; but the second time I should’ve known better, so that’s on me. Now, according to Holy
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: Our God is a good, good Father. May we never overlook His treating us in grace. We must be weak to receive God’s grace properly (first positionally, when we finally surrender to the Lord in humble, repentant faith, and then experientially, daily, by the same pattern). We are called to
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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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