Grace has to be the total paradigm, mix it with anything else and it can’t exist. From Paul Zahl. How can grace end-run its way around standards and yardsticks? It sounds unfair. It is unfair, but it is completely unfair. It is the other side of the law, which is total grappling, a totally unsuccessful …
This morning it occurred to me that in striving to nurture a grace-filled culture in a local church that there are two expressions of grace required. The first of those is a culture of grace that frees people to be who they are; liberated from carrying the pretences and masks of self-protection that make them …
A self-control that comes from within will not last, and only feeds the very emotions that eventually lead to loss of control. Only the self-control that comes from God will show the fruit of his presence in our lives. That’s the self-control I need. From David Prince. The writer of Proverbs asserts, “A man without …
The call to repent is a call to acknowledge I’m going the wrong way. It’s not a punishment, it’s a gracious invitation to stop, turn and come home. It’s a bittersweet familiar companion. There’s a grief of heart that comes from the conviction of wrong, a grief of heart that is amplified when offence to …
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