Grace of God (68)
  1. Looking at our dining room table most days, you might think we were running a cartoon factory out of our house. Drawings. Everywhere.
  2. It was Jesus who appeared to Hagar, comforted her, and gave her the promise of future blessings. It was Jesus who came to her when it seemed everything and everyone else had let her down.
  3. What we see in the face of this God is not a loathing expression. We find the face of a compassionate man who knew all about shame himself.
  4. Surely everyone reading at one time or another in their lives has heard the popular phrase I’m writing about today.
  5. As it turned out, the novels in which I had sought escape, became part of the means whereby the Lord rescued me from my own death.
  6. Here’s what lurks beneath this seemingly righteous behavior: they wanted to make a name for themselves, these tower-builders.
  7. You see, officers, this son of our congregation was dead, and has come back to life again; he was lost, and has been found.
  8. God uses our stupid as well as our best thought out plans and efforts