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What our neglected yard is teaching me about my faith and spiritual growth
When we moved into our new home in April, we were totally in love with the fenced-in yard on a corner lot that came with it. Three massive oaks line the front yard…
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Grace for the angry recovering legalist: this is where the healing begins
In 2013, I spent 2 1/2 months pouring my hurt and angry heart out on screen, bleeding through the painful 7-year history spanning from the time I left for college at the age…
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Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
A few weeks ago a fellow faith blogger asked me to write a guest blog for her some time about my faith journey. “I’m particularly interested in your journey to finding Jesus…how grace has…
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Broken faith: more of my testimony and what God has done (and is doing) for me
What’s your testimony? What has God done for you? I’m unsure how to answer the questions posed by a trusted counselor. In the past the story of my testimony has been the “easy”…
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What I’ve learned from #whitespace {#oneword365 recap}
But in all of the busy-ness, that Still Small Voice has been calling me slow down and smell the roses and stop doing all. the. things. With these words I walked into…
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Grace in the wilderness: the blessings of legalism
The restrictive cocoon of legalism was a necessary part of my life. It couldn't make me fly, but there would be no butterfly without it.
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From legalism into grace: one man’s life-changing story
He left everything behind. All the rules, all the standards, all the goodness. He let go of his own righteousness so that he could embrace the grace of Christ. He let go of…
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the pendulum effect and sinning “that grace may abound”
But TRUE grace-filled living is not about doing whatever you want without care and crying "there's grace for that!" when you know what you are doing is wrong.
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My motivation: “chosen, holy, and dearly loved”
The difference between grace-filled me and former legalistic-me has very very little to do with what I do or don't do, what I abstain from and what I participate in. But it has…
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Accepting grace means letting go of your own goodness
You cannot accept God's grace for your daily Christian life until you let go of your own righteousness. God's grace and your own goodness are incompatible. It's one or the other, and you…
