What is God’s part and what is man’s part? God’s part is grace. Man’s part is faith.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel “from” Christ and not merely a Gospel “about” Christ. Gal 1:6-12

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great...

Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new...

You can actually accomplish all that you desire in life.

Daily prayer, daily grace.

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ’s gift, not perfection which is Satan’s trap.

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.

This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.I never knew there were so many different ways to...

Repentance in Greek means something much closer to “thinking differently afterward” than it does “changing your cheating ways.” Of course repentance can look like a prostitute becoming a librarian, but it can also look like...

And she’s like, you know, the ‘Grace’ in U2’s song, the one that ‘carries the world on her hips’.” – Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

The world isn’t scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

God can make you whole again. Past experiences may not disappear, but they don’t have the same effect on you.

Don’t leave me.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is...

Your job is to get off your self righteous butt and start reaching out to the difficult people because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing...

Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I’ve got grace management issues.

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels...

I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole,...

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that....

…whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

And that you seek forgiveness of your Lord, and then turn to Him. He will provide for you a goodly provision until an appointed term. And He will grant His grace to every one possessed...

Together, on his back porch, his cigarette smoke rising like incense to the heavens, we spoke to the God of grace we both are so grateful to know up close and personal. It may be...

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the...

Stop punishing yourself for things not accomplish yet in life. As long as there is life, there is hope. It is important for you to value who you are by the grace of God. Now,...

The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the...

Law, religion and tradition condemns and murders while grace justifies and saves

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

Now, we all have stories of how we got here, and prob-probably some of you feel angry who whoever it is who’s left you here. But you must try and remember that they were like...

So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland...

The more we abide in Christ, the more His grace and power transform us into His image.

The grace,faith,love and power of God will uplift you to greater heights.

It is a terrible smudge on grace and unconditional love to think that God simply winks and smiles at our poor choices; that God must rubber stamp everything we do or else He is unloving....

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me...

Sam reached his hand toward mine, and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile, he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff, and then another one. His...

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I’d have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

I mean, I’m sure that would make my headache go away, but that’s a heck of a side effect.

Grace, on the other hand, means that God is pursuing you. That God forgives you. That God sanctifies you. When you are apathetic toward God, He is never apathetic toward you. When you don’t desire...

In ‘Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,’ I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God’s grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the...

There is only one thing to do when you meet the Living God; you must fall on your face and repent of your sins. Repentance is bittersweet business; Repentance is not just a conversion exercise...

If we are saved by grace alone, this salvation is a constant source of amazed delight. Nothing is mundane or matter-of-fact about our lives. It is a miracle we are Christians, and the gospel, which...