It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. ~CS Lewis
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It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. ~CS Lewis |
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Sunday Night Quotes 3/18/2012
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” ~Anne Lamott
This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it. ~C.H. Spurgeon
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~G. K. Chesterton
“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.”
~Frederick Buechner
“Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.” ~Confucious
“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands (see Revelation 7:9), I shall see the prostitute from the Kit-Kat Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, who tearfully told me that she could find no other employment to support her two-year-old son. I shall see the woman who had an abortion and is haunted by guilt and remorse but did the best she could faced with grueling alternatives; the businessman besieged with debt who sold his integrity in a series of desperate transactions; the insecure clergyman addicted to being liked, who never challenged his people from the pulpit and longed for unconditional love; the sexually abused teen molested by his father and now selling his body on the street, who, as he falls asleep each night after his last ‘trick’, whispers the name of the unknown God he learned about in Sunday school.’But how?’ we ask.
Then the voice says, ‘They have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.’
There they are. There *we* are – the multitude who so wanted to be faithful, who at times got defeated, soiled by life, and bested by trials, wearing the bloodied garments of life’s tribulations, but through it all clung to faith.
My friends, if this is not good news to you, you have never understood the gospel of grace.”
~Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
The Power of Words
This is the clip I used in our Planet Changer conversation today at SVA. So many of you were wanting to see it again, so here ya go 🙂
Self Forgetfulness
Today as we journeyed a bit into chapter 2 of Philippians, we looked at this incredible invitation of grace God gives us…from His goodness…so every person regardless of their past or present might enter the incredible dance of God. Many people were asking me about the video clip I used to demonstrate this incredible dance (perichoresis) of God that He invites us into, as well as the clip of the Apollo 8 flight where humans saw the full scope of the earth for the first time.
Here is a link to the message from today: http://www.svaonline.org/connect-and-grow/messages-and-podcasts/item/341-poured-out
And below are the videos…
Poured out study week 3 take home sheet
Grace and peace…Monty