The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, but the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can!
The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, but the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can!
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of mercy.
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace".R. Alan Woods [2012]
I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.
Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.
Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.
Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it.
Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.
I can always pray to God with confidence because my righteous state is a gift given through grace in faith on the cross by Jesus!
When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.
We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.