GraceNotes

Sometimes the solution to circumstances and situations and seemingly insurmountable problems is spiritual – it requires that God come down and do something!

How do we maintain the balance between living by what we have learned and acting in direct response to the Holy Spirit’s direction?

Listen in the sanctuary’s silence and listen in the storm’s tumult for his word that gives faith for the journey. God will speak to your listening, trusting heart.

Friends, I encourage you to take a few moments and prayerfully think through the words of this blessing and how they apply to your life and situation.

Can we learn to value right relationships as much as we value right doctrine?

God is gracious and merciful and God still forgives and restores! His covenant is a covenant of love!

God is gracious and merciful and God still forgives and restores! His covenant is a covenant of love!

I believe that my part in the process is to look for the common ground of agreement with others rather than focusing on the often minor points of difference.

Honest Questions: Is your relationship with God largely performance-based? What would help you to rest in God’s unconditional love and Christ’s finished work? .

One of the greatest challenges we face, after a lifetime of learning to “hold on” and labor faithfully, is to recognize and respond to the season of “letting go”, trusting the fruit of our labors to God and to those we have led and influenced.