I get these Graced Again snippets every now and then, and this one fits perfectly as a follow up to the sermon I took in yesterday! Because the Truth is... I am not a good person that just does bad things. My heart is deeply, deceitful, wickedly sick and overwhelmingly evil...
Praise God He saw fit to send His Son, to not only die for my wicked heart, but to live for me as well... because I am incapable of any good without Him.
HE IS EVERYTHING GOOD! - Pastor Mike
“If all we do in our meditations is to repent of a few petty acts called sins that have accumulated over the last day (and this is not to belittle the importance of doing that), we have not known the deep power of purifying grace that repentance is supposed to offer. Israel and its stories help me to understand the deep underlying currents of evil response and intent, the tragic aquifers far beneath my conscious life that will continually feed my daily life with impurity unless they are identified and replaced with alternatives of the kind of character God built into Abraham.”
Gordon MacDonald
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