Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
Indifference was our greatest enemy.
Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.
We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
Grace is God-given power to live differently.
We are often harsher judges than God himself.
God transforms us one area at a time.
Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.
When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.
It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.
Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opini...
A moment with Jesus changed everything.
No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.
When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you - it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate y...
But freedom starts with honesty. We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let’s just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this together.
