Grace-Colored Glasses: 2017

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Grace Journey

The Lord is re-decorating my brain big time right now. He revealed to me how legalistic I have been, mostly with myself, I think. He is tearing down wrong thoughts and pasting in right ones. My main problem was not understanding how deeply grace effects my life. I kept hearing double-speak from Christian teaching that fogged over the golden grace road. He is opening my eyes and setting me free! I'm so grateful and excited.

The main vehicle of this journey toward grace living has been the teaching ministry of Dr. Andrew Farley of Church without Religion. He has the gift of sloughing off all contradictory teaching and shining a clear light on God's Gospel of Grace toward us. So many teachings and Bible passages that I have been confused about are being illuminated while false teachings are being rejected.

I'm OK! And I'm excited about that.

Jesus plus nothing!!!

Z

Eternal Life

The Lord is in His holy Temple; let all the earth be silent before Him! Habakkuk 2:20

Salvation is found in NO ONE ELSE, for there is no other Name (Jesus) under heaven given by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12

For God so loved the world that He gave is One and Only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the Name of God's One and Only Son. John 3:16-18

If you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame." Romans 10:9-11

For it is by GRACE you have been saved through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast! Ephesians 2:8-9

Favorite Quotes

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." Abraham Lincoln

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
C. S. Lewis

"I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not even what I hope to be. But by God's grace and Christ's love I am not what I was." unknown

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end;
if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." C. S. Lewis

"To laugh often,to win the affection of children, to find the best in others,to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." C. S. Lewis