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Grace is the one word this entire site is built on: the unearned favor of God that meets us before we've cleaned ourselves up. These messages explore what it means to live like grace is real on Monday, not just on Sunday.

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judgment

September 17, 2020

The Speck and the Plank: Why We Judge Others

It sure is easy see the speck in somebody else’s eye. But the plank in our own? What plank? Why do we do that? “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in y...

weakness

September 10, 2020

Strong in Weakness: When God's Power Shines

First off, I’m sorry I was late yesterday. I wrote our daily and completely forgot to send. When I did send it I was flying over Tennessee headed to Arkansas. That’s where I am now. I’m camping in the Ozarks with zero service. I had to hike this morning at 5:00 CST to get to the lodges to get a s...

grace

August 28, 2020

Truth Covered in Grace: Representing Jesus Well

As you already know of you are on this devotional, I close with “be nice, Grace wins”. I think we all know and hopefully u sweat and the “be nice”, but what about the “Grace wins”?Well, think about our lives and the experiences we have all learned from. Some of us have endured traumatic events in...

forgiveness

August 26, 2020

Forgiving Those Who Hurt You: Give Up the Right to Get Even

“Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you” Luke 6:27-28 Wow, this is a tough one...We are called to forgive those that hurt us, unconditionally. Because if it’s with condition, it’s not forgiveness. We need to pray for them and for God to bless the...

encouraging-words

July 23, 2020

Words That Build Up

“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”Ephesians 4:29 You can do more damage with your words than you can with any other part of your body or any other thing you have control over....

grace

July 21, 2020

Gracious Speech in Divisive Times

You ever look at someone else and think or say to yourself, “Oh my word, what are they thinking?”. How about “what an idiot!”. Ha, I’m pretty sure I do it daily...But here’s the thing; no matter how stupid the actions, political views, etc. seem to us, it makes perfectly good sense to them. When...

gods-love

July 17, 2020

God's Unfailing Love Never Separates

Life can give curve balls, we all know that. And for me, yesterday was full of disappointment. But, you know what, it will pass and today is a beautiful new day full of hope!So, as we roll into this weekend take time to think about the unfailing love of God. Despite our sinful, selfish, and stubb...

gods-presence

July 13, 2020

God Never Leaves You, Even in Sin

You ever get the feeling sometimes that when we sin, that God has left you? Like the feeling you had when you were a kid and you got in trouble with your parents and they punished you and during that moment you felt like they have left you? I have for sure. But the thing is, that feeling that our...

grace-vs-works

June 16, 2020

Christianity: A Calling, Not a Cause

I was reading last night and came across an idea that I though was worth sharping. It’s about not treating Christianity like a “cause”. You know the one causes, they’re are thousands; #metoo, #blacklivesmatter, #livestrong, #standforamerica, etc. You see following Jesus isn’t a cause, it’s a call...

grace

June 8, 2020

Stop Making Excuses and Find Rest in Forgiveness

Y’all…I’m so sorry for sending it late yesterday. I was traveling yesterday, got up extra early to have this done. Well, I finished it, prepared it to send and forgot to send. Thanks to some of you who checked in on me to make sure I was ok. It makes me feel good knowing you look forward to these...

gods-grace

June 1, 2020

God's Goodness - He Really Likes You

It’s amazing how much we rely on God’s Grace and understanding that He intends for Good for us. It’s so hard to find that goodness in today’s world with what we are being fed by the media and others, but “good” exists. Our frequently guilty consciences make us afraid that our first meeting with G...

gods-presence

May 29, 2020

God's Unchanging Love Through Life's Storms

You know it easy sometimes to think that God isn’t present when things are going bad for us. The feeling that maybe He isn’t there when we deviate from what we think is His plan for us. Well, it is simply not true. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father...

compassion

May 18, 2020

Showing Compassion to Those Who Oppose You

So I’ve been thinking about what is really means to have compassion. I pray nightly that God lays compassion on my heart towards others...specifically those who oppose me. It’s hard these days with so many labels, differences of opinion, lifestyles, etc. to always connect with people. Take the po...

grace

March 17, 2020

Life Without Jesus and Grace in Relationships

What would your life look like without Jesus? I don’t know if you think about that, but I think about it often. I cringe at the thought of what my life would be without Jesus. I’m sure my heart would be cold because I felt it headed that way when I met Christ. I’d probably be pretty lonely. I may...

justification

March 5, 2020

Justified by Faith: Getting Right with God

I’ve been thinking the last couple of days about the journey we have been on together and some of the topics I chase down a rabbit hole. Not that I think they’re necessarily bad topics or irrelevant, I just think it’s good to get back to center. Level set, if you will. So, with that being said, I...

forgiveness

February 7, 2020

Forgiveness Without Limits

Taking forgiveness into the weekend I just want to say, forgiveness is not easy. But no matter how many times a person hurts you, you got to forgive them without limit. I know, I get it, but we have to. To forgive doesn’t mean to forget. You don’t have to reconcile with the person that wronged yo...

forgiveness

February 6, 2020

The Freedom That Forgiveness Brings

One of my most favorite topics to discuss is forgiveness. If you’ve been in this devotional journey with me for the last year and a half, you know I like to talk about it. But why you may ask? Well, it’s forgiveness that has given us the hope for an eternal life with our maker and it’s forgivenes...

truth

January 24, 2020

Balancing Truth and Grace Like Jesus

So I’ve been diving into the idea of Truth and Grace as it pertains to us and how we may identify with one or the other. Let me explain. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”John 1:14 So truth...

forgiveness

December 18, 2019

Learning to Forgive Gets Easier with Practice

In keeping with forgiveness, nobody ever suggested forgiving would be easy. I certainly didn’t and I’m not saying it is, because it’s not. But God challenges us by giving us the ability to forgive. But at the same time, it is one of the hardest things He asks us to do. But you can learn to forgiv...

forgiveness

December 17, 2019

Forgive But Don't Forget - Finding Inner Peace

You ever heard someone say, “that person’s hurt me so many times there’s no way I could ever forgive them”? I have...I may have thought it a time or two as well. Maybe you have? “Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against...

gossip

October 21, 2019

Love Believes the Best: Avoiding the Gossip Trap

I don’t know about you but I’ve got to do better at turning off gossip when I hear it. I also need to not “enable it” when I hear it by giving a participatory laugh or, “now way!” It just makes it worse. It seems as if now days we believe the negative stuff about people more than the positive stu...

humility

October 14, 2019

God Gives Grace to the Humble

How humble do you think you are? Are you prideful and boastful? I ask because God is close to the humble and broken hearted. No one is perfect. We all have sinned. But what makes us beloved to God is our willingness to accept our sinful condition and return to Him. You see, David was a man after...

grace

September 25, 2019

Grace Explained - God's Free Gift of Righteousness

Grace. What is it exactly? I mean I sign off with,“Grace wins” everyday, but what exactly am I talking about? Well, in the book of Romans, Paul tells us that we can’t receive God’s favor, become righteous, by works alone. Meaning simply obeying the laws of the land wouldn’t get us His favor. So,...

jobs-story

September 4, 2019

God's Grace Sustains Us Through Every Trial

Let keep talking about Job for a little bit. You see God would only allow Satan to go so far with Job. We would only allow him to endure just what he was capable of enduring. Just like our own struggles and pain, Satan is trying to break you and God is trying to make you using the same situation....