If you love me, keep my commands John 14:15 What a troubling verse…when I consider my obedience, I have to confess, it is radically imperfect and tainted with impure motives. I’m okay with external acts of righteousness, but I don’t really from the heart want to extend mercy, grace, or long-suffering toward all the people GodContinue reading “Morning Devotion | John 14:15”
Tag Archives: The Cross
Midweek Meds | The Sermon on the Mount, Law and Grace
For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met inContinue reading “Midweek Meds | The Sermon on the Mount, Law and Grace”
Midweek Meds | Living by Faith
You cannot live by faith until you firstly die to the law in the difficult places of daily living – i.e. the proverbial valley of the shadow of death.The life of grace is a boring, broken, messy life of failure, frustration, and confusion that no one in their right mind would choose. Thankfully, in theContinue reading “Midweek Meds | Living by Faith”
Midweek Meds | Romans 6:11-13
“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as thoseContinue reading “Midweek Meds | Romans 6:11-13”
Suffering, Grace, & Forgiveness
I can’t change most of the difficult circumstances I encounter in my life…and I feel condemned when I find myself in situations I can’t control or fix. The typical advice one receives in the church usually goes something like, When you can’t change your circumstances…use your circumstances to change you. This is a misapplication ofContinue reading “Suffering, Grace, & Forgiveness”
Law, Grace, & Daily Living 