Amazing Grace

The old song speaks of "Amazing Grace" but do we really understand just how amazing it is? The Bible reveals some details on this vital topic.

Living By Faith and God's Grace

God gives grace from start to finish in a person's relationship with Him. It cannot be limited merely to justification and His forgiveness of our sins.

Sovereignty, Election, and Grace (Part Five)

In terms of salvation, works cannot save, but good works are the fruit of God's involvement. Grace frees one; works prove that one has been freed.

Living By Faith and God's Grace (Part Two)

'Grace' is a term that represents God's awesome generosity toward us, His continuously flowing blessings and saving acts. It goes beyond just forgiveness.

The Manifold Grace of God

God's calling us is just our initial taste of His grace. Grace is unmerited, but it is not unconditional. We have an obligation to respond to God.

Living by Faith: God's Grace (Part Four)

Because we are all sinners, we have earned only death; justification is not earned, but must come through faith and believing God as did our father Abraham.

The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Four)

Justification does not 'do away' with the law; it brings us into alignment with it, imputing the righteousness of Christ and giving access to God for sanctification.

Grace Upon Grace

Forgiveness is only the beginning of the grace process, enabling us to grow to the stature of Christ. Paradoxically, grace puts us under obligation to obey.

Living by Faith: God's Grace (Part Two)

God's grace supports and fulfills us, but it does not mean 'once saved,always saved.' It is possible to fall from grace, as Israel's experience demonstrates.

The Greatest Grace: Faith and Our Heavenly Shield

Peter describes the linear process with which the faith of Christ, given as a gift, influences the heart, leading eventually to an inheritance in His Kingdom.

Sovereignty, Election, and Grace (Part Six)

Grace's influence extends beyond justification, into the sanctification stage where the believer yields himself to righteousness, keeping God's commandments.

Defining Grace

The entire life of Christ was a manifestation of God's grace, revealing the nature of God by means of a life lived to give us an example to follow.

Five Teachings of Grace

Protestantism unthinkingly presents grace as "free." However, Scripture shows that God expects a great deal of effort from us once we receive it—it is costly.

Paul: Grace, Law, and Obedience

Paul's writings, because of their complexity, are frequently twisted to say that he was anti-law. By denigrating God's law, the unconverted set their own standards.

Sovereignty, Election, and Grace (Part Three)

The term 'grace' describes a generous, thoughtful action of God, accompanied by love, which accomplishes His will, equipping us with everything we need.

Justice and Grace

Sometimes we are disturbed, even angered, because an act of God seems unfair. We have difficulty because we do not understand holiness, justice, sin, and grace.

Is God a False Minister?

Those who advocate doctrinal change portray God as a confused and false minister who lacks the power to instruct his chosen leaders to 'get it right.'

Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Thirty-Two): Ecclesiastes 8:1-9

Leadership and the Covenants (Part Twelve)

The first use of the word 'grace' in Scripture is in context with the rescuing of Noah, a preacher of righteousness from the line of Seth.

Salt

Jesus calls His disciples "the salt of the earth." Do we know what He meant? Here is the spiritual side of this common mineral compound.

Faith and the Christian Fight (Part Two)

Everything that we go through has been engineered by God. We are His workmanship, created for good works, a response to the faith He has given us.

Leadership and Covenants (Part Fifteen)

The quality of leadership affects the morality and well-being of a nation, and the quality of family leadership trickles up to civic and governmental leadership.

Psalms: Book Five (Part One): Psalms for the Winter Blues

Winter is a time of cold, darkness, and sadness. As many as 10% of people in northern areas have Seasonal Affective Disorder. The Psalms for winter can help.

Deuteronomy (Part 2) (1994)

Deuteronomy, which is to be reviewed every seven years, provides us with vision and instruction for living in our spiritual Promised Land.

Leadership and Covenants (Part Nine)

God's decision to destroy the earth and humankind by a flood was ultimately an act of great love, stopping mankind before his heart became incorrigible.

The Great Flood (Part Eight)

God literally called Noah, offering him deliverance from the world catastrophe, and offering him a job of being a physical savior for all of creation.

Faith and the Christian Fight (Part Ten)

Like with the heroes of faith, our testing will be commensurate with the job God has prepared for us. We must make our relationship with God our top priority.

Leadership and the Covenants (Part Fourteen)

Only God's calling, followed by repentance and a rigorous conversion process, will safeguard us from the fiery holocaust that is coming upon this the world.

Magic Doesn't Work (Part Three)

Magic is always used as some kind of weapon, but not to build or develop moral strength or character. God chooses a life-long process of sanctification.