I think my job is to make the grace of an invisible God, visible wherever I am.
01502 – Making Grace Visible
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01470 – Preaching Both Comedy and Tragedy
Switching on the lectern light and clearing his throat, the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them of the truth and because Jesus speaks them both, blessed be he. The preacher tells the truth by speaking of the...
01325 – Grace: Christianity’s Best Gift to the World
Christians have spent enormous energy over the years debating and decreeing truth; every church defends its particular version. But what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals. Grace is Christianity's best gift to the world, a...
01283 – Daily Grace
Regardless of what we do or don't do, want or don't want, we wake up each day already living inside the heart of grace. Every single ordinary, monotonous day.
01239 – Finding God in Everything, Everywhere
If there is nowhere where you have given me a place to which we can just flee away in order to find you, and if everything can be the loss of you, the One, then I must also be able to find you in everything. Otherwise, humanity couldn't find you at all--humanity that...
01225 – Growing in Grace
I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.
01195 – All is Gift; All is Grace
What we are, what we have, even our salvation, all is gift, all is grace, not to be achieved but to be received as a gift freely given. God's bias in favor of sinners is so immense that it is said we will be surprised at those we find in heaven whom we had not...
01170 – Welcoming All Peoples
The goal of God's act of grace in Christ is therefore unity among his creatures, a unity which, as this whole discussion has shown, is to become reality in the present in the community of those who acknowledge God's gracious lordship in Christ. If the universal scope...
01169 – Read the Bible in Light of God’s Character
I am absolutely amazed that Joseph is the first person in the New Testament who learned how to read the Bible. Like Joseph, we are to read it through the spectacles of the grace and the goodness and the love of God. If in reading the Bible you find justification for...
01165 – Christianity Offers Consolation
So what, then, does Christianity have to offer in the midst of hardships and heartache? The answer, I think, is consolation, including the consolation that comes from being part of a Christian community--people who walk alongside us as we journey through grief,...