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Tag: grace

  • Cheap Grace

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian leader in the German opposition to Adolf Hitler, wrote a similar warning a few years before he died in a Nazi prison: Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church… Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance… Cheap…

  • Prayer – participating in God gracious action

    In Christian prayer, as Eugene Peterson puts it, “I enter into an action begun by another, my creating and saving Lord, and find myself participating in the results of his gracious action.” Eugene PetersonClick to TweetFrom the book “The contemplative pastor” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Real fellowship

    Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren’t rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice. Rick WarrenClick to Tweet

  • Thriving not just surviving

    Just as an enduring marriage must be built on rhythms and routines, so to our relationship with God survives and thrives only through disciplines such as Bible Study, fellowship, confession and prayer. Otherwise, says bible translator Eugene Peterson, “we are at the mercy of glands and weather and indigestion. And there is no mercy in…

  • Grace leads to steak!

     A young Billy Graham was driving through a small southern town, when he was pulled over by a policeman and charged with speeding. Graham admitted his guilt, but was told by the officer that he would have to appear in court. At first, the judge did not recognise Graham. He asked, “Guilty, or not guilty?”…

  • Last act not the determining one

    Last act not the determining one

    For example, suppose tonight, in my physical weariness, the remaining corruption in my born-again, Christian heart were to get the upper hand, and pride and self-pity and anger were to lash out verbally at my wife. And then suppose that in a great self-justifying huff, I stormed out of the door, got in the car,…

  • Continual forgiveness

    Continual forgiveness

    The blood of Jesus continually cleanses you in the same way that the combination of your liver and your physical blood continually cleanses your physical body. The only requirement is that you admit that you have sinned and confess your sins. Keep short accounts with God. When you sin, quickly confess, repent and receive God’s…

  • Don’t be embarrassed

    Don’t be embarrassed by how needy your heart is and how much it needs to cry out for grace. Just start praying. Paul MillerClick to TweetFrom the book “A Praying Life” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • God’s clock

    The hands of God’s clock have now moved from a.m. to p.m. Let the readers understand that the period of the old has passed never to return. There can be no turning back of God’s clock Paul BarnettClick to TweetFrom the book “The Message Of 2 Corinthians” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • The new covenant

    The new covenant

    Moses epoch has now passed; it is gone forever, overtaken by the new age of Christ and the Spirit. The new missionaries hopelessly attempt to turn the clock back. But it is too late. The new covenant of Christ, in which Paul is a minister, imparts the Spirit to the inner recess of the heart…