Grace
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Have you ever forgotten something important only to remember it later? Let’s take losing your keys for example. That in-between time of forgetfulness and remembrance is a vast wilderness. We are making circles. We are lost. We have no direction. Our spouse may ask the ever-helpful questions, “Well where did you have them last?” Of
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The second nutshell truth of life in Christ is that we are saved through faith. Eph. 2:8-9 shows the relationship of grace and faith. You may be asking, “Which is it? Are we saved by grace or faith?” Yes. Both. Always. C.H. Spurgeon rightly declares, “It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee;
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We live in a day that consumes bite sized media. The days of book, newspaper, or magazine reading have all but gone. In today’s world, both in the church and in the world, attention spans are far shorter. The average consumer of media or information of any kind has lost an appetite for the whole
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But. But God. My present condition in Christ is not one of death but of deliverance. I’ve been delivered from death and destruction. Eph. 2:4-7 shows us our present condition of being alive by grace while awaiting glory. These verses declare that the dead don’t have to stay dead. The depraved don’t have to stay
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In “The Riches of His Grace Pt.1” we covered Christ’s Redeeming and Revealing Grace. If you haven’t read Pt. 1 go check it out before you go into the rest of this study on Ephesians 1:7-12. The third jewel of these riches is found in Christ’s restoring grace. Eph. 1:10 says, “That in the dispensation
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The believer’s life is found in the riches of the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Who I am, what I possess (both physically and spiritually), and how I behave is built on the foundation of the riches of His grace. The riches of His grace give us our wealth and guide our walk. His
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