An Abundance of Grace

If we could just get a handle on this, it would radically change us and the world around us. We are so quick to level people privately and publicly with “truth” and to think we’re justified because “all I said was the truth…” But if we want to learn the lingo of heaven, we need to understand that Father God’s ‘way’ is goodness, kindness and faithfulness with truth, Christ’s ‘way’ is grace and trut...

Surely, it was a long stare of despair and grief. The smoke and stench of death filled the entire sky as he looked down upon the plain where the lush pasture and busy cities had been just the day before. Never had he been so disappointed, so crushed in heart. What had, to this point, been an amazing walk of faith turned sour. Faith subsided in the wake of sadness. It would seem Abraham turned away...

God knows that what our hearts and souls truly crave is rightness. But answers to the ‘whys’ or ‘wherefores’ cannot bring redemption, restoration, resurrection – rightness. At these times, what we need comes not from an intellectual or emotional explanation no matter how profound, but from our souls being wrapped in His loving heart.

You know, for some time now there has been quite a bit of talk of Last Days and of the Lord’s return so I thought would be appropriate to give a short talk on a couple of key points related to that. When Christ’s disciples asked Him about His return, He referred them to the stories of both Noah and Lot. Now Noah, as we know, was saved in the midst of judgement, saved from the flood in an ark. As s...

We can never obey the critical command to love God unless we first receive and acknowledge God’s love for us. In Eden, we learned from the serpent to doubt God’s love for us; believing his lies sent us spiraling away from God and into self-destruction. However, the good news is that believing in Jesus is believing again that God does love us.

Bestowing a blessing on someone, is a small part of the concept of grace. I say small part because you have to extend the notion much further. Grace is not simply kindness but it’s giving such kindness, such sacrificial charitability, giving it to someone unworthy, someone who has done nothing to earn or merit the ‘reward’, perhaps just the opposite.