"Your salvation is not a reward for good behavior! It was a grace thing from start to finish; you had no hand in it. Even the gift to believe simply reflects His faith! (Ephesians 2:8-Mirror)
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith...”
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Jesus you have won me! Because you are, I can be! I am hidden and safe in you! I am restored to innocence in you! Because you have always been and always will be ‘I Am’; I am also! My reality does not exist apart from You, Your Father and Holy Spirit
Life’s Greatest Privilege
Mine has been a journey into the inexplicable, miraculous, mysterious and glorious Presence of Jesus! But it hasn’t always been as I had imagined it to be. No! It’s been puzzling, frustrating and difficult at times. It has al
Jesus you have won me! Because you are, I can be! I am hidden and safe in you! I am restored to innocence in you! Because you have always been and always will be ‘I Am’; I am also! My reality does not exist apart from You, Your Father and Holy Spirit
May I speak frankly? There are times that I am pretty darn close to going off grid. Meaning; I would like to disappear and simply wait out my allotted time. It has been a constant choice to 'stay the course' and fulfill the 'expected end' for which I
Picture this: The stage is set; the game is on! You are more than a mere spectator who is detached from the action and watching from the seeming safety of the grand-stands. You are standing on the field; in the readied position, opposite each other i
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul. As the wind loves to call things to dance, May your gravity be lightened by grace. Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth, May your thoughts
What are some of the things you would fight for? Even more poignant; what would you gladly die for? For too many, fighting and dying are a daily reality and a lifelong experience. They are raised seeing their friends and family dying around them in t
Are you a person of single focus-a person of one thing? "But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ." Paul purposely narrowed his options to become a man of one thing. Let’s consider how he put it…
“Yes, all the things I on
"Father, I'm like Your Son's early disciples who believed what He said but as soon as He disappeared from sight went fishing (John 20:2-3). I want to live a life I'm good at, a life that let's me protect myself from unavoidable pain and feel good in
‘Do you hear what I hear?’ Is your heart strangely warmed within you--like the men who walked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus right after he was raised from the dead? Or like Francis of Assisi have you heard the ‘call’ to walk away from the riches
Wrong questions are the breeding ground of doubt, despair and unbelief. I know; I've asked the wrong questions for almost sixty-two years. But, in the midst of those questions mercy, grace, atonement and the answer burst its way into my darkened ques
Wrong questions are the breeding ground of doubt, despair and unbelief. I know; I've asked the wrong questions for almost sixty years. But, in the midst of those questions mercy, grace, atonement and the answer burst its way into my darkened question
“The Word became a human being; we are his address; he resides in us! He captivates our gaze! The glory we see there is not a religious replica; he is the authentic begotten son. The glory (that Adam lost) returns in fullness! Only grace can communic
You can't be lost without first truly belonging! Our belonging trumps any lostness we have ever experienced! As bearers of the image and likeness of God, we are always invited into the depths of His searching and finding. I desire to fully know and b
Hospitable Love Is:
Jesus has moved into the neighborhood! He personifi
Your heart matters to God. So much so that he wants to give you a new heart. One that is able to respond to his grace and wooing. The following scriptures proclaim his heart toward your heart!
17 Is anyone crying for help? God is listeni
The Grace to be...
"Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of the 'brightest and the best' among you, not many of the influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't it obvious that God
Nurtured by Expressing Love
How then should we love one another? It’s not that we don’t know we are called to love, it’s that most had very little “love modeling” to follow. We simply weren’t taught or nurtured by love. It wasn’t expressed to us or wo
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