From Wm. Paul Young. I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Orlando, Florida, having a conversation with my friend K, from Germany. Her world-class young athlete friend was recently paralyzed as a result of an on-camera stunt that went horribly wrong. K was distraught. She dried her eyes and said, “I struggle believing this …
By Rachel Hooker at patheos. I am not a very good Christian any more. I used to think that under it all, I was doing the things right and that counted for something. That it counted for a lot. I wanted God’s blessing and God’s protection, and to get those one must do all the things just …
From Jeremy Myers at Redeeming God. Inevitably, whenever I speak or write about grace this way, someone objects that I am contradicting Paul who said in Romans 6:1 that we should not continue in sin so that grace may abound. Whenever someone asks this question, I am always pleased, because it shows that they are …
By Russell Croft from patheos. Much is made of our free will, our ability to choose good or evil, to accept God or reject him. The adage, “If you died tonight, do you know where you would go?” is still said frequently at youth rallies, revival meetings, and on street corners, with the implication that the hearer …
By Jeremy Myers at Redeeming God. I hold to radical, outrageous, shocking, scandalous, limitless grace. I believe there is no other kind of grace. But whenever I teach or write about this sort of grace, it is almost guaranteed that someone will object by saying, “So are you saying that we can just go sin …
By Travis Reed from The Work of the People Catch the video and the full story here. I don’t have any credentials…I once managed to get 13 moving violations in 12 months though, and I have credits at a handful of junior colleges sprinkled across Northern California. I was kicked out of the Army. I …
By Jeremy Myers at Redeeming God Grace is the key to everything. And I am not referring to the week-kneed, limp, powerless, feeble grace that you find in most Christian theology today, but the shocking, outrageous, scandalous, indiscriminate, senseless, irrational, unfair, irreligious, ridiculous, absurd, offensive, infinite grace which Jesus exhibited during His life. The only people who …
By Chris Kratzer It’s not an issue of debate, at least, probably not for you. In sync with your faith understanding and interpretation of the Bible, you believe hell is absolutely real and anyone who doesn’t repent, say the “sinner’s prayer,” and make the proper life adjustments is destined to spend eternity there. For you, …
Grace awakens our perceptions to the true nature of God and His affection for us. The purpose of Christ is not simply that we believe in Him, but that we believe in God like Him—His faith within us becomes our faith within us. Jesus knows no other nature, aspect, or trait of God other than …
This from Wm. Paul Young by Wade Burleson: In March 2017 the movie The Shack will hit theater screens across the country. It’s a guarantee that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s original song for the movie, Keep Your Eyes on Me, will become a mega-hit. Whether the film itself is a blockbuster is yet to be …