Archive for October, 2009
Crime of Grace Part 2
In: Grace Week| Guest Post
30 Oct 2009By Tal Prince
Read Part 1 of this post here.
Some of you may be caught in a web of deception, others may be caught in the trap of pornography, others may be struggling with drugs or alcohol, and still others may be guilty of verbal assaults and gossip. Some of you are struggling with food – [...]
Crime of Grace Part 1
In: Grace Week| Guest Post
29 Oct 2009By Tal Prince
Recently, I had the privilege to speak at our nation’s largest maximum security prison. Angola State Prison houses 5200 men who have committed some of the most horrific acts imaginable – and I loved them. All of them have been at crime scenes – and some their lives are crime scenes.
As I hung [...]
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Grace and Chocolat
In: Grace Week| Guest Post| church
29 Oct 2009By Jon McIntosh
Grace changes people.
There was a movie several years back that seemed to understand this point better than most “church folk.” (Church folk is what we call religious, church attenders in my part of the country.)
The plot behind Chocolat is not complicated: a single mom, Vianne, and her daughter open a chocolaterie (fancy for [...]
Choosing My story
In: Guest Post
29 Oct 2009My friend, Adam Smith (@jackalopekid), asked me to guest post for him today. So, I wrote a post that sort of goes along with Grace Week. If you are visiting from Adam’s blog, please hang around and see what we’ve been saying this week about grace! Anyhoo, Adam is a blogger, church planter, and master [...]
Relentless Grace
In: Grace Week| Guest Post
28 Oct 2009By David Hutsko
My hunch is that most people reading this will have some type of working definition for the word “grace.” Whether your definition has been shaped by a book or stimulating conversation at a local coffee shop, you most likely can rattle off what grace “is” in a word or a few short phrases. [...]
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What Scary Monsters Teach Me About Grace
In: Grace Week| Guest Post
27 Oct 2009By Dawn Carter
It was 11:30pm, well past the bedtime hour for my kids. The fierce Santa Ana winds had been howling all night, when I heard little Thomas, then four years old, wake up with a terrified cry. Bolting into his room, adrenaline pumping from my fresh Lego foot injury, I could hear the scraping [...]
Grace – Undeserved
In: Grace Week| Guest Post
26 Oct 2009By Tam Hodge
Grace – getting something you don’t deserve.
Mercy – not getting something you do deserve.
Way back in 1994, when I gave birth to my first child, I struggled with wanting her. In fact, the first time I held her in my arms at the hospital I could barely look at her face. Don’t get [...]
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Grace: Some Thoughts on John 1
In: Grace Week
26 Oct 2009I’m sarcastic. Very sarcastic. Now, I prefer to think of it as quick witted but at the end of the day you need to call a spade a spade. So, while other people would read through John 1 and write deep reflections on omnipotency or divine power I am choosing to write about the calling [...]
Where Does Grace Go?
In: Grace Week| Guest Post
25 Oct 2009by Jarrett Stevens
Theologically speaking, Grace is the Game Changer of the Christian Faith. It is one of the Quintessential Key Distinctives of the Christian Faith. The fact that while we absolutely deserve nothing from God, he extends and offers himself to us, even in our darkest and most desperate state…that changes everything.
There’s infinitely more to [...]
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Grace Week
In: Grace Week
25 Oct 2009This vlog marks the start of grace week. I’m really excited to be sharing posts everyday this week from some great friends who have some cool thoughts about grace. Watch the video to find out who.
Speaking of grace, this was my first vlog and it’s far from perfect. It actually cuts out at the end [...]
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The Winner Is…
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22 Oct 2009The Winners of the Jason Boyett Pocket Guides are:
The Pocket Guide to Sainthood – Adam Lockhart
The Pocket Guide ot the Bible – Byron
The Pocket Guide to the After Life – Jeff Partain
Please email me your info by Monday and I will get your books out to you. nicolenwick@me.com
Everyone else can order any of the Jason’s [...]
A Greater Love
20 Oct 2009I posted this on the XXXChurch wives blog this week but thought it would be nice to include it here also. Even though I share my thoughts on John 15:13 from the perspective of addiction and recovery I think that the application is just as true regardless of your specific situation.
Sometimes I worry that the church [...]
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