The Grace Project

1. These men are not drunk as you suppose
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... plain and simple.  So do I.     I dare say that 'Christianity' (the flat-packed-absolutist-blind-literalist variety) has become the main obstacle to people ever discovering who ...

2. That Syncing Feeling …
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Sooner or later we discover that SINKING FEELING that is the inevitable outcome of a life lived for ourselves.   I regret that much of what we call Christianity will also cause you to sink and not ...

3. He leads Me...
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... true of ministry.  In fact most of what we call church makes it impossible to be a Christian.  To quote Drucker once more, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should ...

4. Making Christ Our Life Not Our Living
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... and find hope, kindness, compassion, wholeness and spiritual food and rediscover the optimism of Christianity.  These communities require Spiritual Directors, men and women (and yes I did say women) ...

5. Burnout
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... burnout •Marriages burnout •Parents burnout •Students burnout •Sportsmen and sportswomen burnout •Christians burnout •Counsellors burnout.   Burnout is ...

6. The Grace to Live Fully
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... minus interference equals performance." It is generally understood, even in non-Christian circles that the biggest interference is belief. Self-belief. Your self-talk.        ...

7. Growing Gracefully – Questions, Questions
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Q: Are Christians to imitate or to participate in the life of Christ? Is there a difference?;  Q: To mature as a Christian, do I need to become more holy?; Q: If we believe that we can lose our ...

8. The Winning Habit
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... shaped and indeed misinformed us about who we are. Most people (Christian or not) have grasshopper syndrome.      You remember the story in Numbers 13:33-33 don't you?  The spies, ...

9. The Pursuit of Holiness – Trying to become what you already are
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The great satanic deception is to get the Christian to serve God so as to earn what cannot, or indeed, need not, be earned since Christ has already earned it on our behalf. 2 Peter 1:3 clearly states that ...

10. Freedom from religion
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The Law does not give the Christian power over sin. It gives sin power over the Christian [1 Cor. 15:56].  You will remain in bondage as long as you do not know that you have been delivered from the ...

11. 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.’   ...

12. Who iAm in Christ
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... -- the truth is to most Christians -- of the identity immigrant variety think that Christianity is just a pay-as-you-go ticket to heaven.     But I gotta tell you apart from being a free-no-limit-non-contractual-obligation ...

13. Nicodemus: The Best A Man Can Get
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... Gillette Christian" -- you know the advertising slogan: "The best a man can get" (it is of course an unfortunate twist of irony isn't it that Tiger Woods was Gillette's their poster-boy ...

14. The Chosen --Phew!
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...  Now I know that making such assertions makes Christians very nervous (and some of them mad) but think about it --   Most of us who’ve been in this thing for any length of time will have ...

15. Striving For The Rest
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One of the most important questions that we will ever have to answer in our own hearts is this: why do Christians find it so difficult to rest?     The short answer to that question is; ...

16. A Rumbling Within
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... senses and regained her God-consciousness.   Now I get that many Christians will balk at the idea that Christ could be in all men.  I get it I really do.  But what I’d like to ...

17. God's Not Deaf
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... is not "Why do the righteous suffer? - But rather, "Why do the righteous serve God? - Because he blesses them or because He's God. God is neither deaf, or indifferent , however, some Christians ...

18. 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 ...

19. The Fallow-ship of the Believers
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... It was a dispensing once for all of transactional salvation and a burning of my Christian to-do-lists. I had swapped my wrong-believing for ‘right-believing’ and Luther like there I stood ...  ...

20. Silencing Satan
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I hope you can see that this is a part of Christian theology which cannot be abandoned.  Jesus lives the sinless life and thus, becomes Head of a new sinless race.  The size of Jesus’ task ...