Author: Jim Stephens

Teaching that helps people live a life filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith, is good! Let’s do more of that!

It’s up to me to keep taking the next right step.

Actually, in the everydayness of life, it’s hard to consistently think very much about heaven.

The “don’ts” can’t help us change on the inside. Only the “do’s” can change our hearts.

Wouldn’t it be encouraging to know that someone thinks of you often and actually prays for you every time they think of you?

This Same God will provide for you and for me!

Could you and I lose the purity and beauty of our precious relationship with Jesus and substitute a cheap alloy of self-effort mixed with prayer, selfish desires mixed with sacrifice?

The pull away from servant leadership toward authoritarian control is always present and often subtle.

If you’re reading GraceNotes in a country I didn’t mention above, I’d love to hear from you!  Please!

There is No Place in the godly exercise of authority for angry threats, intimidation, belittling words, or humiliating actions.