Grace

Breaking Idols: “Faithfulness”

God cannot be stopped in his good purposes for his whole creation. The mystery of the gospel is that God uses our own rejection and death as the means of our redemption and salv...

Good News For The Poor: “Untrained Faith”

What does a faith (trusting, committed, belief that leads to action) that saves look like? Do we turn to a Mother Theresa or a Martin Luther King Jr.? Jesus and Luke turn to a p...

Good News For The Poor: “Religiously Disturbed”

Who are the people that are automatically rejected in our thinking? In Jesus’s day these were the tax-collectors. Betrayers of their own people and collaborating with the foreig...

Fish Tale: Gaining Perspective

Just as we can’t always predict the route, we can’t always predict the outcome. Disappointment with God is something we all will struggle with. However, God is willing to help u...

Fish Tale: You Can Run But You Can’t Hide

God is not always a comforting presence in our lives. Scripture is very clear that his ways are not our ways. The result of all this is that we will not always receive his call ...

Prodigal God: The Reason, New Life

Everything belongs to us and can be ours if we wish it. But, it cannot be held hostage, to be used as a tool to keep others out. Life from the dead has occurred, we must celebra...

Prodigal God: The Response, Grace = Judgement

Shouldn’t sonship only be for those w h o a r e deserving? Shouldn’t it only be for those who have put in the work a n d p r o v e n t h e i r reliability? No. God’s grace is fo...

Bow at the Brook

Everybody Has Won and All Must Have Prizes

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