The Salvation we are sharing

Here is a statement I have been struggling with and trying to see to what extreme it is true:
“Our salvation is not through how much we know about Christ, but is our acceptance of the grace he extends to us.” (my own words)
This is something we would agree with, I think, but living it out [...]

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My God – the origins of ‘My Jesus’ (see previous post)

So my new reading endeavor is Jesus wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell and Don Golden. The entire book is a journey to take us through the things God cares about. Today’s entry is about the setting up of the covenant relationship between God and the Israelites. Specifically, Bell and Golden [...]

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My Jesus – a song without music

So sometimes I like to be creative.  And my most common form of creativity is songwriting and the like.  But sometimes I will have a conviction or thoughts I want to put in to words, however for the life of me, I cannot fight music that does it justice.  So it sits in poetic form [...]

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the Jesus I never knew – Philip Yancey

As some of you may know, I have been studying the life of Christ for some time now. I’ve read through the Gospel of Matthew and accompanied that with various supplemental reading like The Fingerprints of God by Robert Farrar Capon and The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey. I feel [...]

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