Tag: grace
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Hebrews 12- Reject Not God’s Grace
Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees Hebrews 12:12 NET The author of Hebrews assures us: “We have a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us;” therefore do not grow weary and lose heart. Life’s race shall not be to the finish of death, but to our completion in eternity. In Christ we have…
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Crushed
Let’s get something straight: You are not good enough for Heaven. I am not even good enough for my church, my wife or my child. If we cannot do enough good works to earn our place with a Holy God, how will we ever pay what we owe for our many sins? Answer: We can not.…
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Interrupting Jesus 7 – a lowly woman
Luke 7: 36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. Nice. One of the leading men of your church asks you to dinner. Jesus did just what we would do: He accepted. 37 And behold, a woman of the city, who was…
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What do I do with this? – Grace
‘Grace’ is a continuation from the ‘Law.’ The Law convicts us of our sinfulness. Some leaders of God’s people and teachers of God’s word use the Law to convict ALL of our sinfulness. (And well they should; for who among us is without sin?) Yet those who have no regard for GOD have no regard for…
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A Temporary Throne – 9
CHAPTER 9 Job 1:1 NLT There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil. I confess that I am a sinner. I am NOT a righteous man like Job. I am most thankful for the…
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The Gospel: Preached by John
Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed! – Psalm 84:9 John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was…
