Tag Archive for: Grace

Best of Intentions

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Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.  (Colossians 3:2)

I had the best of intentions this last week.  I started the week intending to pray more, to be less distracted, and more engaged in Christ.  I started out with my eyes fixed on Jesus.  Then the week progressed with bad news after bad news.  Each time it was like I was experiencing a gut punch.  You know… one of those punches that leave you breathless and wondering what just happened.  Yes, that’s the only way I can explain it.

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Amazing Grace

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Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man’s sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God’s gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! Read more

Grace Abounds

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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not by works, so that no one can boast.  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:8-10)

God’s Unmerited Favor

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But God—so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,

5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).

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Source

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He is the Source.  Of everything.  Strength for your day. Wisdom for your task.  Comfort for your soul. Grace for your battle.  Provision for each need. Understanding for each failure. Assistance for every encounter. (Jack Hayford)