The Free Gift of Grace
Psalm 84:11 rightly places the source of Grace as God: For the Lord God is a sun and a shield, the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will God withhold from them that walk uprightly. Grace is a free gift. It cannot
Category Archives: Faith & Witness
Our Gospel of Grace
I love to hear people tell what their favorite Bible verses are. Their choices reveal so much about who they are and how they look at life. And when they share their choices, you can see the joy in their hearts — you can tell
God’s Great Gift
I cannot be good as I desire to be, and I do wrong against my wishes. (Romans 7:19) Little else in my spiritual journey with God has the effect of bringing me face to face with these sentiments of the Apostle Paul as does the
Doubly Blessed
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound; that saved someone like me; I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. Thus went a slight revision of the lyrics to this song at a church in Southern California that was doing
Grace for the ‘As Is’
The righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short
With Feeling / Five: Mama
Read the rest of the series I’ve so far avoided talking too specifically about family members. I’m overly self-conscious about what is and isn’t my story to tell. My family is a group of private folk, very nearly to the point of being secretive. It’s
How Dare They Call It Christian, How Dare They Call It Love
During the mid 1970s after my father left us for another woman, I can remember crying many times on Sunday morning because I wanted to go to church but could not. I can remember telling mother one Sunday morning that “America is a free country,
A Lambda Theology: Cabin Fever
Having stripped ourselves of the sacred texts of Sappho, Plato, Rumi, Dickenson, and countless others, in our eagerness to find a seat near (but not at) the Eucharistic table, I don’t want to find us the victim of a malady that I call “Cabin Fever
Our Contribution to Suffering
Suffering is always associated with pain, and what a God-given blessing pain can be at times. Pain is always the “alert” signal that something is not as it should be in our bodies, relationships, spiritual journeys or emotions. For those whose nerve endings fail to
Not ‘If,’ But ‘When’
Lord, show me, I’m on my knees, even though my soul bleeds, I still believe, Feel like Job ain’t got a thing on me, won’t You tell me please — why God why God why God why God why? The above are lyrics I wrote