1. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  2. This is an excerpt adapted from “Let the Bird Fly” written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  3. The following is an excerpt from “Let the Bird Fly” written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  4. We expect God to try us, not for our crimes, but for our better moments.
  5. When we say in the benediction, “The LORD make His face shine on you,” grace is what we mean.
  6. Galatians 5 isn’t a move beyond Christ to the Christian life. Galatians 5 is the Christian life in Christ.
  7. Rather than calling me to pick burrs off my coat, God’s love strips me of my delusions and cuts to the heart of my disease.
  8. But these good works aren’t done under compulsion. They’re done freely. They aren’t done so that God will love us. They’re done because He loves us.