The choice of Grace 10/01/2010
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, made a commencement speech adress where he stated that we are what we choose. He then went on to ask the students about the future choices they will make. These were his questions, and notice how the theme of graceful choices keeps coming up. --- How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?
Grace, it's a choice. Add Comment When I lack Grace 07/18/2010
When I lack Grace, I am a Close minded, Legalist, Judgmental, Prideful, Activity-focused, Grudge-holding, Insensitive, Arrogant, Close-minded, Impatient, Unmerciful, Intolerant... fool. Grace and the unfortunate 'isms' 07/10/2010
Throughout biblical interpretive history, there has been many many many different offshoots and opinions. Every time someone would come up with a framework to understanding what is often hidden to us, they put an 'ism' on it. Here is the result of my research into the list of 'isms' that surround those who believe in the Bible. ---Grace Guy's list of 'isms'--- THEOLOGY: SALVATION Classical Arminianism Wesleyan Arminianism Calvinism Hyper-Calvinism Lutheranism Pelagianism Semi-Pelagianism Antinomianism THEOLOGY: APOLOGETICS Presuppositionalism Ontologicalism Evidentialism Doctrinalism Moralism Scientific Experientialism THEOLOGY: ESCHATOLOGY Post-tribulational Premillennialism Dispensationalism Postmillennialism Amillennialism THEOLOGY: CHRISTOLOGY Trinitarianism Unitarianism Binitarianism THROUGH HISTORY: CHRSTIANITY Protestantism Anglicanism Eastern Orthodoxism Oriental Orthodoxism Roman Catholicism THROUGH HISTORY: REFORMATION CHRISTIANITY Anabaptism Anglicanism Calvinism Counter-Reformation Lutheranism Polish Brethren Remonstrantism THROUGH HISTORY: MODERN DAY PROTESTANTISM Pietism Methodism Evangelicalism Adventism Modernism Liberalism Pentecostalism Anglicanism Lutheranism Presbyterianism Fundamentalism Neo-orthodoxy New Evangelicalism Paleo-Orthodoxy Ecumenism --- One of the most attracting features of the doctrine of Grace is that is cuts through all the 'isms' the human mind can invent. We cannot opinionate the gift of God for man's salvation, the exclusion of any deed to make us deserve it or the power of the subsequent relationship Grace gives us. Grace cuts through it all. And it is the one thing that will unite all heaven dwellers, no matter what their 'isms'. Grace, the best common denominator to all the 'isms'. And the greatest equalizer. Grace and Pride 04/20/2010
To be Ego is to have an inflated sense of self-significance. It's consequences are devastating. If I'm honest, the self-inflicted problems and issues in my life all had one thing in common: my inflated sense of self-significance. And I don't think I'm the only one. GiveMoreMedia invites us to think of a world without ego. There would be no...
When I say I was given Grace... 04/04/2010
Following the post on Grace and Humility, I was reminded of many instances in history when people who were given Grace, through no merit of their own, used this gift as a platform for personal pride. I realize that our collective past is riddled with 'Christians' who based their justification of superiority on their faith. Grace disagrees with them. The apostle Paul, in 2Cor 15:10, says : But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. Maya Angelou wonderfully penned When I say I am a Christian as a true representation of Grace. Grace VS Guilt 04/04/2010
When I read how Grace is characterized in the Bible, I discover that it stands in stark opposition to the feeling of guilt one gets when remembering a forgiven past. Guilt is good when it brings us to Grace. It's not good when Grace has been given to cover the debt, and we (alone) persist on doing more to pay for said debt. We can't... and it's that guilt that goes against the grain of Grace. Based on the how Grace is described, here is the contrast to Guilt. Guilt is a sword, Grace is a shield Guilt has been removed, Grace is everlasting Guilt is a lie, Grace is trustworthy Guilt is atrophying, Grace is abundant Guilt is a dark cloud, Grace is a cloud with spring rain Guilt is worthless, Grace is worth more than gold Guilt focuses on an event, Grace is renewed every morning Guilt costs too much, Grace is free Guilt is ugly, Grace is glorious Guilt is fruit-decaying, Grace is fruit-producing Guilt is personal, Grace is contagious Guilt is unsatisfying, Grace is sufficient Guilt is limited, Grace is exceeding Guilt is single-minded, Grace is manifold. I choose Grace. Old Testament God vs New Testament God 03/06/2010
In our descriptions of God's character, we often find ourselves separating the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament. We 'know' He is the same God, but then sentences like the following come out: - God was Justice before Christ and then He was Love - God used to rule with the Law, now, He is gracious to us - Grace wasn't present before Christ and was introduced through Christ But that is all false. God, in the OT, was a gracious God, dispensing mercy, compassion and love since the creation of the world. He did not change His ways or introduce a new concept in Christ. He fulfilled it in Christ. Here is the biblical proof of God the Father's link to Grace in the Old Testament:
God never changed. Neither did His Grace. Legalism VS Grace 02/27/2010
This hits very to home. Taken form a document I once called simply title 'grace'. Legalism VS Grace
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