My first genuine reblog. “For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) … Read More via Of First Importance
My first genuine reblog. “For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) … Read More via Of First Importance
“Run, John, run, the law commands But gives neither feet nor hands Better news the gospel brings It bids us fly and gives us wings.” – John Bunyan HT: Jared Wilson, where one of the commenters notes that the attribution of this to Bunyan is contested. It’s a great statement, though.
Ever feel like bathtime is a war? Greg Lucas writes about one evening where he doesn’t wrestle with his angel. Read: ‘Great Grace In The Small Things Of Life’.
“The Christian life is the life of sons and daughters; it is not the life of slaves. It is freedom, not bondage. Of course, we are slaves of God, of Christ, and of one another. We belong to God, to Christ, to one another, and we love to serve those to whom we belong. But …