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158: Knowing Grace (3)

1/22/2012

Scriptures:

Hebrews 8:10-12
John 8
Luke 15
Luke 7:34
John 3:16-17
Philippians 2

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157: Knowing Grace (2)

1/15/2012

Scripture:

Matthew 5:48
Matthew 6:5-15
Luke 12:31-32
Luke 11:5-13
Hebrews 8:6
1 Peter 1:13-25

Quotes:

“God doesn’t reveal himself to us just to make us happy or to deliver us from loneliness. He also comes to us so that we can in turn be conduits of his presence to other people. He invites us to join him in making things down here the way they are up there. This news is the best news.”
- John Ortberg

“The direct experience of God is grace indeed, and basically there is no one to whom it is refused.” In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us—that we be men and women of prayer, people who live close to God, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it. As Merton said in the last public address before his death, “That is his call to us—simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.”
- Brennan Manning

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156: Knowing Grace

1/8/2012

Scripture:

Isaiah 43
Ephesians 2:4-13
Titus 2:11-14
Matthew 11:27-30
2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Quotes:

“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
- C. S. Lewis

“At the last judgment Christ will say to us, “Come, you also! Come drunkards! Come weaklings! Come children of shame!”  And he will say to us: “Vile beings, you who are in the image of the beast and bear his mark, but come all the same, you as well.” And the wise and  prudent will say, “Lord, why do you welcome them?” And he will say: “If I welcome them, you wise men, if I welcome them, you prudent men, it is because not one of them has ever been judged worthy,”  And he will stretch out his arms, and we will fall at his feet and we will cry out sobbing, and then we will understand all, we will understand the Gospel of grace!  Lord, your Kingdom come!”
- Fydor Dostoyevsky

“When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves–that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.”
— N.T. (Tom) Wright