The Grace Project

1. These men are not drunk as you suppose
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... He is the light and the life of  all men even Dawkins. He is in the heart, wooing them, loving them and enlightening them whether they know it or not.  What they reject is religion ...

2. I'm Praying, for a change
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... not to answer.  I don't know about you but I'm praying, for a change...   ...

3. “I Love You Just The Way You Are.”
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... to borrow a phrase from the Apostle Paul [Gal. 3:1].  What freedom when we know that He has dealt with the issue of the forgiveness of his sins and has come into the fullness of understanding that ...

4. Growing Good Grass
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You don’t have to be a believer to know be able to recite the words of the much loved twenty-third psalm, but if you’re in any kind of spiritual leadership you do need to be a Seer to understand ...

5. 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 ...

6. Making Christ Our Life Not Our Living
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... mustn't mistake gullibility for openness to God.   If we're tracking with the Lord or rather if the Lord's tracks  (tracks not tracts) are in us then we know that if we're not part of the solution ...

7. The Grace to Live Fully
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... strong enough to force you to change your thinking?” In my professional life one of my roles is to work an executive life coach. In coaching there is a well-known formula that states: "Potential ...

8. Full of Eastern Promise
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... need is to draw the distinction in our minds between studying the word and abiding in the Word. The former is of no value (or limited value) unless without the latter. The former gives us Bible Knowledge ...

9. 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 ...

10. Desiderata
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I don't know about you but there are seasons in my life when I seem to get sucked into the vortex of busy-ness.  It's at times like these that I find myself having to come up for air in order to remind ...

11. Is Our Brand of Christianity Really Christian?
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...    The further I venture into what one might call the second-half of life (the first half-of-life being characterized by absolutism, knowledge and the maddening need to be right rather than being ...

12. Who iAm in Christ
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... service its also far more a bus pass to paradise.     But here's the thing how do you find out what else it can do?     I don't know about you, but I find it hard to read manuals ...

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. A Rumbling Within
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... recently John’s gospel. The fusing of these two letters has caused something to erupt in my mind.   Hitherto I had known whom and to some extent why I was in Christ, but after the eruption ...

16. God's Not Deaf
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... what to write about but reading the letter clinched it:   "Prayer" began the letter "moves us from self-sufficiency and independence to a place of humility where we acknowledge ...

17. The Absurdity of Faith
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... a short series on the nature of faith for those of us who know only too well what that feeling is like.    We are living in straightening times.  When one is in the grip of a recession ...

18. The Fallow-ship of the Believers
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...  I have for some time now been talking about what I call ‘the business-end-of-grace’ challenging those of us who know that Christ is evidently on the inside to be able to demonstrate the ...

19. Silencing Satan
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... [Eph. 4:8].   The testing began in earnest and is recorded in chapter 4 of Luke’s gospel.  It’s an account known as The Temptation.  It’s worth to note that in Luke’s ...

20. Becoming An Him-Potent Person (Easter Meditation)
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... the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” [John 6:67-69].   Peter is both courageous and cowardly.  He’s courageous ...