Grace Tolerance or Grace? 3 May 20153 May 2015 Are we tolerant or gracious? Which do we want to be? Tolerance says, "I can ignore what you do." Grace says, "I will love you despite what you do." Tolerance…
Parenthood Lessons from Fatherhood 24 Apr 201524 Apr 2015 Today my youngest turns 9 years old. She is a real sweetie. We have a little ritual we do when I drop her off at school. We give the "I…
Discipleship A Wrap Up to Bad Rap 22 Apr 201522 Apr 2015 Last week I wrote a post entitled Bad Rap in which I talked about the harmful effects that having a bad understanding of what witnessing for Christ means can bring.…
Love Buttercup 16 Apr 201516 Apr 2015 In the opening scenes of the iconic movie, The Princess Bride, Princess Buttercup loved to order her farm-boy Wesley around. It didn't matter if the request was big or small…
Discipleship Bad Rap 14 Apr 201514 Apr 2015 One of my girls' favorite songs is Bad Rap by Steve Taylor. Bad Rap is a very intentional bad rap about the "bad rap" that Christians have in the eyes…
Grace The Law of Grace 13 Apr 201513 Apr 2015 So summarizing what I have been learning about grace… Grace is… Unnatural. It runs against human nature to be gracious. Grace is sacrificial one way love; we are naturally self-centered…
Grace… For Your Consideration 9 Apr 20159 Apr 2015 I would like to throw out an idea that I have been thinking about and get your reaction to it. Could it be that the problem of sin in the…
God's Love… Under the Palms on Palm Sunday 30 Mar 201530 Mar 2015 "It is finished." John 19:30 (NIV). This weekend my wife and I found ourselves in Clearwater Beach, Florida…a rare weekend away from home and away from the kids. We were…
Grace Grace Is Transformative 25 Mar 201525 Mar 2015 This is the fourth in a series of posts filling in the blank to "Grace is ____." Grace is unnatural counterfeited intimate transformative. Grace is transformative because… …grace sets you…
Grace Grace Is Intimate 22 Mar 201522 Mar 2015 This is the third in a series of posts filling in the blank to "Grace is ____." Grace is unnatural counterfeited intimate. Grace is profoundly personal and intimate. Impersonal and…