Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas..

Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; ….

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience..

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and….

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless..

When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person..

Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths..

Sam, I really want to buy a red coffee pot, if they exist," Grace said. "I'll find you one.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power..

The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has committed to her the treasury of all good things, in order that eve….

Grace! 'tis a charming Sound, Harmonious to my Ear! Heav'n with the Echo shall resound, And all the Earth shall hear..

We don't choose what's going to wake us up..

Forgiveness frees the forgiver..

Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophi….

Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relatio….

Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody o….

Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace..

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace..

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to ….

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived..

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a g….