The Grace Project

1. These men are not drunk as you suppose
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... hear from us?  Rather than being taught about God’s extravagant unconditional love and acceptance has is taught that God will love him ‘if…”     Just for good ...

2. I'm Praying, for a change
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... to us? Leaving to one side the fact that God is love and love according to the Apostle Paul cannot be provoked I'm troubled by this kind of linearity. The idea that if we do a,b & c then God is duty ...

3. That Syncing Feeling …
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... things will not inherit the kingdom of God.  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no ...

4. He leads Me...
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...  The Christ life in us is potent, radiating hope, healing, kindness and compassion through our head, heart, health and hands, impacting the way we lead ourselves and others, the way in which we love ourselves ...

5. “I Love You Just The Way You Are.”
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... and can thus, be manipulated.    What peace there is when we can speak of our relationship with God using the words of Billy Joel’s masterful ballad, “I Love You Just The Way ...

6. Leadership Matters - Finding Our Voice
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... Leadership matters.  But if leadership matters the way we lead matters even more.   Leaders manage meaning.  They tap into our our need for love and our desire to grow and our wish ...

7. 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 ...

8. Dissonance Breeds DIssidents
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... puffs up what we need is love because love build up and that we get not from studying the words of God written to men (the bible), we get that from abiding in the Word of God living in men(Jesus).  ...

9. Be the Difference
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... gospel is causing.   But we need to allow ourselves to be more than grumblers we need to be prepared as God leads us to make a difference.  You see Love is not a protest, it is a demonstration.  ...

10. Burnout
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... the exchange is so far reaching that it extends to the sense faculties (mind, will and emotions) which are exchanged for the spirit faculties (faith, hope and love).  After the exchange, it is not ...

11. The Grace to Live Fully
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... for destruction.  Now, the Lord sent an angel to Lot to give him a heads-up and to get him and his loved ones evacuated before the city was razed to the ground.   Okay, so here is the interesting ...

12. Does grace promote sin?
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... of Christ (Romans 8:29). Love and Fear do not mix any more than Grace and Law.   Does Grace Promote Sin?   The Apostle Paul responded to the question I stated above, in Romans 6:1‐2: “What ...

13. The Pursuit of Holiness – Trying to become what you already are
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... implica‐ tion of this is that if the Christian’s relationship with God is dependent upon the holiness of the Christian, God’s love is, therefore, not unconditional.   Given the great ...

14. Full of Eastern Promise
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... from abiding not studying that gave me a renewed vision of God as the only God He can be: the God of love. The God of agape. The other-lover-the-selfless-self-giving one. The more I sense that this is ...

15. Who is Responsible for our Salvation
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... as unclean things. You will say to them, ‘Be gone!’” (Isaiah 30:20‐22)   However, to reach that point, we must end our fatal love affair with self‐effort. So, here is a question ...

16. Desiderata
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... life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.   Take ...

17. Is Our Brand of Christianity Really Christian?
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... and teachings, which emphasise the love of God and the love of one's neighbour  WHAT COMES NEXT?  ...

18. Nicodemus: The Best A Man Can Get
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...  First comes the HEART, then the SOUL and then the MIND --    "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your ...

19. Radically Better Conference - London November 6-7
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...  S3   A Better Priest Living in Covenant Love  Steve McVey S4 A Better Covenant  ...

20. Striving For The Rest
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... a bit careful, you're not like Jesus' step-children and the Father loves his Son (Jesus) and tolerates you out of his love for his Son.  There can be few things that drive us more than our need to ...