Dear Redeeming Grace, Last week, Dave reminded us that the church needs master encouragers like Barnabas. Men and women who highlight where God's grace is at work and help others look more like Christ. What a great joy that the church is one of the main contexts where this kind of encouragement happens. Listen to how the writer of Hebrews instructs us: "And let us consi...
Keep ReadingDear Redeeming Grace, Last Sunday we thought of how we need God to act upon us and compel change in our lives for how we relate to God and others. And by His grace, He's done just that. God has transformed every believer into a new creation! In 2 Corinthians 5:17-19 Paul writes this: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; beho...
Keep ReadingDear Redeeming Grace, Jesus prayed these words in what is known as the High Priestly Prayer: "Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one." (John 17:11b ESV) How amazing to think that God's desire for his people is to have a kind of unity that reflects the perfect and eternal unity of the Father and Son. Dave re...
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