Grace

There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. —Romans 3:23-24 stood at the podium and took a deep breath…

The boy stood with back arched, head cocked back and hands clenched defiantly. “Go ahead, give it to me.” The principal looked down at the young rebel. “How many times have you been here?” The child sneered rebelliously, “Apparently not enough.”…

Pardon of sins is a grace that the most holy persons beg of God with mighty passion, and labour for with a great diligence, and expect with trembling fears, and concerning it many times suffer sadness with uncertain souls, and receive it…

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry…

On June 10th in 1555, a young gentleman named Thomas Haukes was burned at the stake in Coggeshall, Essex, by order of the ruling church. What was his crime? He refused to have his infant child baptized (Christened) in the State Church…

THE FACT that you live a better life, do better things, and are a nicer person may make you a better neighbor, but it doesn’t make you fit for heaven. That can only happen by grace…

I don’t want to reap what I’ve sown. I want crop failure. –Fred Fuller, Pastor, in a sermon at the Chattanooga Falls Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tennessee, quoted in Adventist Review, May 28, 2009, 13.

Samuel Colgate, the founder of the Colgate business empire, was a devout Christian, and he told of an incident that took place in the church he attended…

A great preacher of my native land used to tell the story of a farmer he knew…

The story is told of well-known evangelist Billy Graham driving through a small town, when he was stopped by a police officer and charged with speeding. When Graham appeared in court, the judge asked him, “Guilty, or not guilty?”…

Grace is God giving you what you do not deserve and mercy is God not giving you what you do deserve.

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I’M THE chaplain of the Dallas Mavericks. As a perk for being the chaplain, I get tickets to the games. Sometimes I have tickets left over and I invite people to go with me…

The Russian Czar used to love to disguise himself and mingle with his subjects to hear what they might have to say. One night he visited the barracks and listened to the conversation of the soldiers…

Joy Gresham wrote an award-winning poem called Snow in Madrid. She describes snow as something that comes from the heavens, a testimony of what God can do in a sinner’s life…

A miner approached the famous preacher G. Campbell Morgan and said he’d do anything to believe that God would forgive him of all his sins. “But,” the miner lamented, “I cannot believe He will if I just turn to Him…

Dark clouds had settled over the dusty field. The shepherd had already begun urging his flock toward rocky shelter as the first drops of rain splattered on his forehead…

The first is accept the loss. The second is grieve the loss. Allow yourself to grieve the loss. And this is a natural consequence of the first step. And what does this look like? Just cry, cry, cry…

Jerome Kern or Cole Porter could take a simple sheet of paper, write a song on it, and make it worth millions of dollars—that’s creative genius!…

Well would it be for some of us when sitting in judgement even upon the most abandoned characters of our acquaintance to remember the well-known incident in the life of John Bradford…

An artist painted the portrait of a friend whom he deeply loved, and lavished the utmost care on it. When finished, the friend looked on it and said, ‘““You have painted my portrait too fine for it to be true.”…

William Jay saw John Newton just at the end of his life. The mind and the tongue of the old preacher were past their work…

At the end of old London Bridge one hundred and twenty-five (from 1956) years ago a poor beggar was scraping away wretchedly on an old violin in a futile attempt to solicit pennies from the passers-by…

MANY Christians react to the law by trying to work hard to obey all of the laws and do all of the right things. They are like the circus entertainer that spins plates…

Eat This Bread he moment I stepped into his classroom in the parochial school, my son Matthew, who had autism, made a beeline for me. He was clearly distressed…

CREDITCARD companies send mass mailings to people with amazing news of great grace. The recipients have not applied for a new card or a new level of credit, but the credit card company freely offers unsolicited spending power…

THERE is the story of a little boy who wanted his mother to pay him for all the services he was rendering in the home. He left her a note that read: For washing the dishes, you owe me a dollar…

GRACE is a force. It is like a tailwind that pushes us toward the will of God.

Some years ago, I had a little school for young Indian men and women, who came to my home in Oakland, California, from the various tribes in northern Arizona. One of these was a Navajo young man of unusually keen intelligence…

You cannot earn a gift. It would cease to be a gift if it were purchased with money, or paid for, in whole or in part, in any other way. Years ago, a wealthy lady in New York built a beautiful church…

What is “grace”? It is several things. First, the kindness of an exalted person to those below him. We sing “God save our gracious King.” Then grace is a gift, a favour, a pardon, granted as an act of pure benevolence…

Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord, but Abel brought an offering from his flock. God respected Abel and his offering but did not respect Cain and his offering.

If you are ready to partake of grace you have not to atone for your sins--you have merely to accept of the atonement…

One day Abraham Lincoln watched a plantation owner bidding for a slave girl. Figuring he was going to buy her and abuse her, Lincoln paid the price to set her free…

A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art…

Years ago I was preaching in the small town of Roosevelt, Washington, on the north bank of the Columbia River. I was the guest of friends who were sheep-raisers…

A death-bed conversion scene. The author had an uncle who was a professional nurse. He related the following incident to him. This man had in his home for a number of years a girl whose mother was a very evil woman…

LIVING the Christian life is more than religion; it’s a lifestyle. If you eat doughnuts all week long, drinking a Diet Coke is not going to help you…

Grace! ’tis a charming sound; Harmonious to the ear! Heaven with the echo shall resound, And all the earth shall hear. Grace first contrived the way To save rebellious man; And all the steps that grace display, Which drew the wondrous plan…

THE NEED for grace is the problem of sin and the problem of sin cannot be solved by the efforts of man. Nothing you do can cancel out the problem of sin. Crushing five million oranges still won’t give you an apple.

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.—Rom. 5 :20 God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

In the days when Napoleon was the first consul of France, a well-dressed girl of fourteen years of age presented her-. self alone at the gate of the palace…

I had to notice during the war, when enlisting was going on, sometimes a man would come up with a nice silk hat on, patent-leather boots, nice kid gloves, and a fine suit of clothes, which, probably, cost him $100; perhaps the…

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behoves any of us To find fault with the rest of us. Unknown, “Charity”

Do you believe the Lord will call a poor sinner, and then cast him out? No! his word stands forever, “Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out.”

There is a story of a little girl who remarked to her mother how clean some sheep looked against the green grass. Then, as the snow began to fall, this same girl noticed how dirty the sheep looked against the white snow…

God grades on the cross, not the curve.

Story of David and Mephibosheth illustrates salvation by grace. Grace comes to the helpless, those “sold under sin.” Invites us to place of peace and satisfaction.