The Grace Project

1. That Syncing Feeling …
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...     In the first place he does not see us as being separate from God or from one another that we are ONE is the axiom of the entire bible. Oneness with God and each other is what we call ...

2. Dissonance Breeds DIssidents
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... oneness.   To realise our oneness we must do something other than simply read our Bible. For all the undoubted good that can do its just head knowledge.  I think we all know that knowledge ...

3. Burnout
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... a badge of spiritual honour.  I was horrified that people in our church burned out and as the then head of the bible college I thought that this could and should be prevented.   Then I burned ...

4. The Grace to Live Fully
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... in a city called Sodom.     Lot was the nephew of one of the Bible’s greatest heroes, a man by the name of Abraham whose name means “father of the multitude.”  Some ...

5. The Pursuit of Holiness – Trying to become what you already are
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... when mentioned in the Bible, the word “holiness” is never accompanied by a threat. Kittles Dictionary of the New Testament.   The clarion call for holy living is, no doubt, sincere ...

6. Full of Eastern Promise
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... that the Bible is not the 'word of God' Jesus is the Word of God. The bible are the words of God written to men, whilst self-evidently Jesus is the Word of God living in men. I feel increasingly that the ...

7. Is Our Brand of Christianity Really Christian?
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... over.   Here’s the thing, I’m becoming increasingly troubled by the blind literalism that seems to frustrate any open debate among so called ‘Bible-believing-Christians.’   ...

8. The Chosen --Phew!
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... offspring.'   Now lets be clear what Paul is not saying. He is not saying in this verse that all men are automatically saved? The bible motif of faith seems to me at least interwoven into fabric ...

9. Striving For The Rest
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... elude the believer.  Our understanding of acceptance must be the same as God’s.  The Bible is clear – we are accepted by the Father in Christ [Eph. 1:6].  Now we need to be ...

10. The Absurdity of Faith
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... man that all the monotheistic [monotheism is the belief that this is only one true God] faiths, Judaism, Islam and Christianity all claim him as their spiritual father.   The bible’s account ...

11. The Peter Principle
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... the years who thought that they had learned all there was to learn.  (Note to self – buy more band-aids to elastoplast their soon-to-be-brusied egos.)   The Bible is littered with stories ...

12. The Tithing Controversy
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... were Malachi s comments addressed? Can you think of a verse in the Bible which addresses you, a Christian, as a child of Jacob? Under what Covenant was God speaking to Israel the Old or the New? Under ...

13. The Jesus That John Knew
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... is that most grace teaching is Paul-centric.  He after all is the Apostle of the New Covenant.  I myself am on record as saying the Bible can only be understood through the lens of Paul.   ...

14. The Bible: Rule Book or Love Letter?
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... we do not really know what God is like.   The way that the bible has been taught to us; as a book of rules rather than a love letter we have come to believe that there are certain people ...

15. The Ancient Path (The Pathway Part One)
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 In his Bible Concordance, Cruden offers a helpful definition of the word “path” defining it as: “a beaten way by which men can walk.”  The Bible has several important ...

16. Cain & Babel - Voices from the Past
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... Faith "convinced by the revival's viability, Barratt sought the 'full Bible evidence' up to twelve hours a day, day after day." Barratt began to correspond with the leaders of the revival. On ...

17. Love Always Hopes
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...   As Billy Graham once said - "I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."    ...

18. Do you want to get well? (Part One)
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... want to get well? [The Message Bible] •Is it your desire to get well? [The Basic English Bible] •Do you wish to have health and strength? [Weymouth Translation] •Dost thou wish to ...

19. Spiritual Intelligence
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... growth is the Bible. Not the Bible itself you understand but the way that you’ve been conditioned by it.   Many of us have made the mistake of confusing the Word of God with The Logos (the Word) ...

20. Get a life
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... 4 rest will elude you. Our understanding of acceptance must be the same as God's. The Bible is clear, we are accepted by the Father in Christ  [Eph1:6]. Undoubtedly the Pauline "in Christ" ...