Category: Grace
-
Is the Old Testament Irrelevant?
Being a grace blog, we often focus on promises of the New Testament and the New Covenant. Does that make the Old Testament irrelevant? Is the old in Old Testament representative of something that has no value in modern-day? Was the God of the Old Testament different than the one we love and serve today? The…
-
Working Toward Heaven
I was out for a jog the other day and ran (pun intended) across a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses preparing for a Saturday of door to door evangelism. In the past, I’ve engaged in conversations with them about salvation by grace and not works, Jesus being God, or even their view that only 144,000 will…
-
Abounding in Thankfulness
I recently did some traveling. As often happens, we hit delays. So many of my fellow passengers around me were getting angry, negative, and frustrated. I’ve seen a huge change in my life in these situations while traveling. Maybe it is knowing delays are inevitable. For whatever reason, I have developed a greater compassion for…
-
Broken Promises
I recently was at a wedding where the minister had everyone in the audience turn to their spouse and say, “I still love you.” It reminded me of how easily we make and break commitments in our modern culture. We all know the epidemic of broken promises involving marriage, but even in simple things we…
-
Jesus Hates Religion
“- Has your experience with God been about the “do’s” and the “don’t?” “- Are you on a path that was decided for you by people you trusted, but it feels more like bondage? “- Have you completely abandoned all paths because you’ve seen the end results, and you have no desire whatsoever to be…