“Jesus doesn’t invite you to downplay your sin or implore you to brood over it. He invites you to envision your sin erased by His intervention. Hie invites you to see as He does — He sees the depths of your sin and then sees your sin no more.”- Alan Wright In Chapter 5 (“Repenting: […]
“Most Christ followers have a general idea that Jesus paid for their sins. But rare are the Christians who actually experience the freedom and peace from guilt God has provided.”- Chip Ingram “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of […]
“Christian blessing is . . . intervention and intercession. When God blesses, he intervenes in our lives, communicating truth, sustaining us with good, saving us from harm. When we bless one another, we’re interceding.”- Tina Boesch “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly […]
“Favor rarely gives us what we want, no matter how much we squint, make threats, or roll around in the mud, but it always gives us exactly what we need.”- Brian Jones (emphasis author’s) “In the womb he [Jacob] took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God. He strove with […]
“Learning to wait well involves learning how to put into practice the everyday-ness of living as a child of God.”- Dr. Tony Evans “I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and let your […]