Blinded to See

The good things of this world are not the ultimate prize of life. They only foreshadow the greater things of the life to come in the new heaven and earth with Jesus. Jesus is the ultimate prize of life.

Peace, Power, and the Promise

It’s been said that within the heart of every person is a throne and someone or something is sitting on that throne. Whoever sits on that throne is the king of our heart and they govern our actions….

So who is the king of your heart? And what kind of king do you serve?

When Grace Comes Home

[When we] think that God grades sin on a curve like we humans do… we underestimate the graciousness of God. What can happen … is we can be burdened by sins which God has already forgiven….it prevents us from receiving the forgiveness and grace that God has for us…. How deep are the depths of God’s grace?

The Father’s Heart

And it doesn’t matter where you are—regardless of the loneliness, pain, sorrow, suffering, or grief that you are right in the middle of right now—

your Heavenly Father is with you, and He loves you, and He will carry you through that time.

And He’s inviting you to come home so that He can embrace you and restore you as a beloved, forgiven child in His family.

Lord, Teach Us to Pray

For when we look at what Jesus taught his disciples about prayer in Luke 11, we see that prayer is all about relationship, the relationship between us and God. That relationship is a gift given to us by Jesus.

The Day Grace Spoke

If our eyes are closed to what God sets before us, then the arc and trajectory of our life will never be what God intends for it to be….

And because each and every one of us only has one precious life to live, that would be tragic.

…How can we have our eyes opened to all that God has for us?

Life in the Spirit

Living according to the Spirit means turning away from our sinful desires and focusing instead on Jesus, the new life He gives us, and the guidance that He gives us through His Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is the one who helps us to focus on Jesus and His many blessings and gifts to us.

Unshakeable Hope

Your war with God is over because God has reconciled you, and me, and everyone else who believes in Jesus, to Himself—and He did that by paying the full cost of our forgiveness and giving us His righteousness.

Justified by Grace through Faith

Jesus more than paid for all the sins of all the people in the whole world. By doing so, He opened the gates of heaven for God’s righteousness to come pouring down upon you and upon me. We are now flooded… with the purity, holiness, and uprightness of God.

The Power of the Gospel

Because the infinite worth of Jesus’ suffering and death on our behalf vastly exceeds the debt we owe for our sin, God the Father looks at us and makes the only just decision he could. He declares that we are righteous, in other words, that we are completely and totally innocent of all our sin, and he sets us free. God no longer holds anything against us.