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 …
It was Queensland’s victory in the 2011-2012 Sheffield Shield season that was instrumental in Darren Lehmann cement the coaching credentials that saw him assume the role of coach of the national team when Mickey Arthur fell foul of something of a player’s revolt. Now with Queensland’s victory in the 2017-2018 Sheffield Shield Lehmann’s tenure looks …
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 …
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