GraceNotes

How does God want to demonstrate his grace through you and me today? What will it cost? Am I willing to pay the price? Are you willing?

We must not stubbornly refuse to allow the church to change, adapt, and remain relevant to the culture, any culture, in which she functions.

In Christ, there is neither slave nor master, Jew nor Greek, male nor female, rich nor poor. In this world we live in, those things have to be worked out with openness and honesty and love.

God chose me because he loves me, and because he chose me, I’m his child.

Thoughtfully reading the prophecies of Isaiah helps to “Teach us God’s ways, so we can walk in his paths.”

I have much respect for the prophets who are asking God for his mercy on all of us, and who use the terms “we and us,” rather than “they and them.”

How should we read the prophecies of Amos today? What’s the point? Is there a message for you and me in the rantings of old Amos the sheepherder?

We still need the voice of the prophet in our churches and our religion.

It’s not what you know, it’s what you do with what you know.

The human tendency is toward complexity.