Tag: grace
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Listening to Mozart
I fancy hands that love the keysDo fly across the board with joyAs Spirit prompts him to rejoiceIn bounty showered from above. All is gift and undeserved:What makes you happy is sheer grace.The soul’s delight in music tooIs proof that God does smile on you! ©2022. Dennis M. Cortes
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Raised for Our Justification
“Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us” (Romans 8:34)
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Apostasy and Grace
Some give up: lava on the street, no walking from now on. If grace is true, where is the power? Why still a slave to sin? But grace flickers amidst the ocean of corruption, like a magic candle. Soon it will burn everything up!
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Grace Cannot Die
Alive the grace of God in me Though Sin may rage ferociously. Grace shall not falter, shall not fail, And in the end it will prevail! Though bruised and battered Grace may be a victim of Sin’s wild melee: Let bloody kicks and punches fly, ‘Tis all in vain – Grace cannot die. Thus, bleeding,…
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Liberating Grace
(Easter Sunday Message, 16 April 2017, given to the congregation of Ikthus East, Bacolod City) Text: Romans 6:1-14 Introduction: The Christian’s greatest sorrow is the fact that he still has to struggle against the remnants of sin in his life. But Christ has not left him helpless in this regard. By virtue of his resurrection…
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Culture and Grace
I learned something new today from Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: the fact that “Culture… is not just the site of human rebellion against God, not just the site of God’s judgment against sin, it is also the site of God’s mercy.” After Adam and Eve sinned they made coverings out of fig leaves, but God…
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Beautiful Grace
From Thomas Merton’s The Sign of Jonas: But it is beautiful to see God’s grace working in people. The most beautiful thing about it is to see how the desires of the soul, inspired by God, so fit in and harmonize with grace that holy things seem natural to the soul, seem to be part of…
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 