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Tag: grace
The Glory of Grace
Sue Bohlin explores God’s marvelous grace as the unending flow of His power, presence and favor in our lives. I bet you recognize “grace” as a theology word. Many of us are quick to say, “Oh yeah, I know what that is. We’re saved by grace through faith.” Or we know of churches with the…
unChristian: Is Christianity’s Image Hurting Christ’s Image?
Byron Barlowe reviews the book unChristian, based on research on what young people think of evangelicals and born-again Christians: that they’re hypocritical, judgmental, too political, exclusive. He calls out Christians to improve the reality behind the image to better reflect Christ. Section Synopsis: A recent book entitled unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About…
Mister Rogers and the Hunger for God
“You’ve made this day a special day by just your being you. There is no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.” —Mister Rogers, to every person as we watched his show. With the news that a documentary about Fred Rogers (Public Television’s “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”)…
Shame-Based Families, Grace-Based Families
The messages of a shame-based family: “Don’t talk, don’t trust, don’t feel.” “Everybody has to put their needs aside so we can tiptoe around _____ and not make them mad.” “Why did you do that, you dumb b*tt?” “If you disappoint me this much, how much more are you disappointing God?” “Oh please, you’re not…
“I’m a Mormon and I Have Questions about Your Article”
I read your article A Short Look at Six World Religions and it said that many of Joseph Smith’s prophecies never came true. Which prophecies are those? I also read, “Both of these religions teach salvation by works, not God’s grace.” I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…
“I am a Christ-Believing Hindu”
I am a Hindu by birth. A Christ-believing Hindu (we will get to that a little later). I was just reading your write up on “Do Hindus believe in Jesus.” And I am writing to thank you! Thank you for not calling Hinduism a religion creating by Satan as some do, for not outrightly dismissing…
Glimpses of Grace: Knocking Down Mental Walls
One of the most spiritually dangerous mistakes we can make is to compartmentalize our thinking into separate sections: Facts/values. Sacred/secular. Worst of all, God/real life. If Jesus truly is Lord—and His word says He is—then there is not so much as a solitary atom, much less an entire compartment, where He does not belong. So…
Law and Grace: Combating the American Heresy of Pelagianism
The American Church has fallen under the error of Pelagianism. Law and Grace do not represent two plans of God, but two phases of the same plan of redemption: preparation and fulfillment. “For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.” (John 1: 17, NASB) A young college student…
Are You a Safe Person?
Dec. 19, 2012 We all want people in our lives that we can be real with, people we can trust with our hearts and our struggles, people we can risk opening up to. But it is foolishness to share the treasure of our hearts with unsafe people who will judge us, shame us, or condemn…
What Does Grace Look Like?
Grace is one of those theological words that we think we know and understand, but many people don’t really grasp because they’ve never seen it modeled. Grace is what Mark Driscoll calls “ill-deserved” favor; it is the display of unwarranted kindness and love. I’ve been writing a radio program (the transcript of which will become…