Upcoming Study

 Our spring study, The Truth Project will begin on March 13. The Author, Dr. Del Tackett, has some interesting articles on his blog. https://www.deltackett.com/blog

The Truth Project is designed to help participants learn to integrate the biblical message with the big questions of life. To develop a biblical worldview and how to apply it to every aspect of life, instead of bringing a secular worldview to bear on the issues of the day.

Biblical foundations are laid for the various important spheres of life: law, politics, economics, history, science, the arts, sociology, education, and the media. All of these crucial areas are examined in terms of the biblical worldview, and participants are taught how to apply biblical principles to all these key fields.

Participants will learn how to organize and evaluate various opposing ideas that all claim to be the truth. But our ultimate goal is not simply to gain knowledge It is to "look upon the face of God" - and be transformed in the process.

Grace

 Dictionary definition of Grace: God's favor toward the unworthy or God's benevolence on the undeserving. 

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. BB Warfield 

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues. John Stott

Grace is unconditional love toward a person who doesn't deserve it. Paul Zahl

Grace is God's best idea. His decision to ravage people by love to rescue passionately, and to restore justly - what rivals it? Of all his wondrous works, Grace, in my estimation, is the magnum opus. Max lucado

Gracious, the Hebrew word channun, in its verb form, means to be considerate, to show favor. That God is gracious would mean that he is favorably inclined toward us. That He wants to show favor to us. and to do what is best for us.

The concept of grace is a fundamental and a vital concept that is central to Christian belief. Grace is often defined as the unmerited favor, kindness, and mercy of God. It is God's freely given, undeserved love and assistance to humanity, particularly in the context of salvation and forgiveness of sins.

Grace is most needed and best understood in the midst of sin, suffering, and brokenness. We live in a world of earning, deserving, and merit, which result in judgment. That is why everyone wants and needs grace. Judgment kills. Only grace makes us alive.

Grace is “mercy, not merit” it is the opposite of karma, which is about getting what you deserve. Grace is getting what you don’t deserve and not getting what you do deserve. Christianity teaches that what we deserve is death as the price of sin, which separates us from God, Who is life.

Christians live every day by the grace of God. Grace transforms our desires, motivations, and behavior. In fact, God’s grace grounds and empowers everything in the Christian life.

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-terms/what-is-grace.html