What Makes God’s Grace So Amazing?

What Makes God’s Grace So Amazing?

IMAGINE COMING ACROSS A CENTURIES-OLD, abandoned set of ruins in the jungle without asking why someone built them. We wouldn’t do this because humans do everything with purpose, and so does God. In fact, we ask about purposes because God is purposeful, and he made us...
What Makes God’s Grace So Amazing?

Are Holy People Happy People?

I REMEMBER TRYING TO EVANGELIZE A FRIEND. He knew a lot about Christianity. Because he had been raised in the church, he responded something like this. “I’m not interested.”  “Why,” I asked?  “I’d have to give up Sunday morning football and start giving to...
Do You Have The Root Of Spiritual Fruit?

Do You Have The Root Of Spiritual Fruit?

ONE OF MY FAVORITE TEXTS in Paul’s letters is in Colossians 2:6-7.  “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” Paul...