I’ve been reading “The Trouble With Grace” by O. Keith Hueftle and it is really really good. Keith shows a real depth for God’s hospitality as it shows His character. It’s not just a hospitality of “if you come, I’ll take care of you” but a pursuing, hungry hospitality that tracks you down and then cares for you where you are. It...
read moreMark 10:23-27 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” 24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to...
read moreWhen Jesus rose from the dead, He could have gone anywhere, appeared to anyone, and shown His power. I think it’s a big deal that He first appeared to the people He was closest too before He died. It shows that not only does God love each of us generally, but He really does love us specifically and individually! People aren?t...
read moreJohn 19:6 I think Pilate thought the Jews would see what he had done to Jesus and be appeased, but instead they just saw that they had gained momentum toward getting Jesus executed. [11]?Jesus answered him, ?You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you...
read moreJohn 17:6 I know this sounds like Yoda talking, but the fact that Jesus says “yours they were” shows that God didn’t CHANGE from the OT to the NT. People belonged to God and were faithful to Him and experienced some sort of grace before Jesus came. It wasn’t the fullness of salvation that Jesus would finally...
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