Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction
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Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction
Kathy’s and my bed and wept, wondering if she was doing the right thing. She now says, “Our marriage began at the gates of doubt and hell but is now at the gates of Heaven.”
Timothy Keller • The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
A lot of us treat life like a major league playoff game instead of neighborhood T-ball. Instead of rooting for one another to swing for the fences and get a hit no matter how many swings it takes, we keep track of the misses, the failures, the disappointments. We treat life like it’s “three strikes and you’re out.” Jesus says we’re all in no matter
... See moreBob Goff • Live in Grace, Walk in Love
LOVE YOUR ENEMY AS YOURSELF We must try to feel about the enemy as we feel about ourselves—to wish that he were not bad, to hope that he may, in this world or another, be cured: in fact, to wish his good. That is what is meant in the Bible by loving him: wishing his good, not feeling fond of him nor saying he is nice when he is not. I admit that th
... See moreC. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
Forgiveness given and forgiveness received are always the pure work of uncreated grace. Such unearned and undeserved forgiveness is necessary to break down the quid pro quo world that I call meritocracy. Only when we experience undeserved love does this inward and outward flow begin to happen. Before that, we are dry, dead cisterns. Before that, we... See more