1. The True and Better Naboth

    book
    10/20/21
    28 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    When we — sinful, reprehensible we — become the enforcers of justice, we never bring about true justice. We either go too far or not far enough.
    The True and Better Naboth

  2. The Mystery of Faith

    book
    10/09/21
    12 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    The Son of God is still God the Son in the Incarnation.
    The Mystery of Faith

  3. The Grace of Falling Up the Stairs

    book
    09/20/21
    16 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.
    The Grace of Falling Up the Stairs

  4. Free Indeed

    book
    09/13/21
    22 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Jesus’s freedom is different. It isn’t meant to indicate that the moorings which tether men and women to what is true, beautiful, and holy are unfastened, liberating them to do anything they please.
    Free Indeed

  5. A Visit with the Transfigured Voice

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    09/03/21
    27 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    A seed grows the kingdom of God. A whisper eventually turns the world upside down. A carpenter’s son from nowhere becomes the Savior of everyone. Such is God’s way.
    A Visit with the Transfigured Voice

  6. The Mountainous Gospel of God

    book
    08/23/21
    28 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Calvary is our mountain of pardon. It is the place which reveals most definitively God’s plan to redeem and reconcile sinners to himself.
    The Mountainous Gospel of God

  7. Never Tell Me the Odds: On the Implausible and Improbable Deliverance of God

    book
    08/18/21
    26 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    God picks the unexpected and the unlikely, and goes to the unforeseen places, stacking the odds against himself, in order that age after age might stand in open-mouthed wonder at his sovereignty in and over all things.
    Never Tell Me the Odds: On the Implausible and Improbable Deliverance of God

  8. Gentle and Lowly: A Reflection on the Love that Will Not Let Us Go

    book
    08/11/21
    14 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    For sinners who cannot seem to get out of their own way, Dane brings to bear the gospel of Christ’s heart, which aerates one’s spiritual lungs with undiluted grace.
    Gentle and Lowly: A Reflection on the Love that Will Not Let Us Go

  9. The Rock of Truth in the Storm of Fake News

    book
    07/30/21
    22 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    The Psalms aren’t the clandestine successes of a faithful soul, but are the journaled hopes of a desperate soul — of one teetering on the edge of oblivion.
    The Rock of Truth in the Storm of Fake News

  10. A Lamp in a Dark World

    book
    07/21/21
    23 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Through the often abominable and lamentable and occasional commendable season, there is one who remains unmoved by it all.
    A Lamp in a Dark World

  11. A Kingdom of Sheathed Swords and Severed Ears

    book
    07/13/21
    19 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    But Jesus didn’t see it that way. He saw his arrest not as the kingdom’s program being thwarted but as it being “fulfilled.”
    A Kingdom of Sheathed Swords and Severed Ears

  12. Come to the Waters of Repentance

    book
    06/28/21
    18 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Mankind’s “thoughts and ways” on the matter of pardon and forgiveness do not even come close to exhausting, let alone fathoming, God’s “thoughts and ways.”
    Come to the Waters of Repentance
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