You will know that I am the LORD, O people of Israel, when I have honoured my name by treating you mercifully in spite of your wickedness, says the Sovereign Lord—he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities—But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that […]
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.—All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above […]
Nineveh is in the news again, but under a different name. Its ancient ruins are just across the river from the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq. This timeless story still speaks. God said, Go tell Nineveh they’re in trouble with Me. Jonah ran away to sea. God took up the chase. He hurled […]
Why do we remember the things we should forget and forget the things we should remember? We can coddle offenses, abrasive remarks, slights, and snubs…remembering their perpetrators for decades…while we forget the innumerable transgressions we ourselves have been forgiven? Maybe you don’t; I do. When you grow up in church, there are things you tend […]
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast! I Cor.5:7-8 The good thing about a study in grace is that as it unfolds (and you realize with a sinking feeling how not-gracious you are) there is grace to repent and to be forgiven and to value grace all the more. […]