God S Grace And Mercy Brought Me Through

What would you say is the greatest gift youve ever received? I dont have to guess; I can answer unequivocally. The greatest gift of my life is the magnanimous grace of God. This song says it all: Your grace and mercy brought me through / Im living this moment because of you / I want to thank you and praise you too / Your grace and mercy brought me through / What else is there? What words of praise? At what cost to man, what treasure of humanity? The only thing that counts is that the grace of God has come down to man. Its free. Come taste how good God is.

Grace and Mercy Brought Us Through is loosely based on the life of my great-grandfather Rev. Aaron Davis. Rev. Davis was born into slavery and grew up during the Civil War. He received freedom with the Emancipation Proclamation and became a circuit riding minister with the Methodist Church in Mississippi. His life as a preacher is well documented , but little was known about his personal life. My Mother wrote a short story about her grandfather and she stated that his Mother was named Tena and his Father was named Indian Charlie. From this information I filled in the blanks and found a fascinating story that took me from Senegal West Africa, through the Middle Passage, through plantation life in Mississippi, through the life of Native Americans in Mississippi and the Black Seminoles in Florida and on to the life of a Black circuit riding preacher. With every word I wrote I realized that God's Grace and Mercy really did bring us through and made us strong people.

Failure is not a failure when you fail; it can only become a failure when you have failed and refused to rise up and move on. In Failure Is Not Final, Kaeren McGrowder shares her experience about becoming pregnant in the church while still serving in the ministry. She honestly relates her inspiring story regarding her journey from falling from grace to gracious recovery. The authors story portrays the essential keys needed to overcome shame and guilt and to be transformed by the love of Jesus Christ. The crucial key is true repentance, like the story of the prodigal son in the Bible: I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father I have sinned (Luke 15: 1718). This true repentance involves humility (I will arise), acknowledgement of sin (I have sinned against heaven and before thee), and faith in action (And he arose and came to his father) (Luke 15: 20). No matter how serious the case may be, in spite of failure, shame, guilt, and rejection in life, we can overcome, recover, and be transformed by the love of Jesus Christ.

A stunningly innovative visual edition of the award-winning What's so amazing about grace? by bestselling author Philip Yancey. This visual edition takes the text of the Gold Medallion Award-winning original and illustrates its themes and message with provocative full-color photography and illustrations. You'll 'experience grace' as you interact with its engaging visual content.

Explore this stunning quality of God’s grace: It never ends! In this revision of a foundational work, John Piper reveals how grace is not only God’s undeserved gift to us in the past, but also God’s power to make good happen for us today, tomorrow, and forever. True life for the follower of Jesus really is a moment-by-moment trust that God is dependable and fulfills his promises. This is living by faith in future grace, which provides God's mercy, provision, and wisdom—everything we need—to accomplish his good plans for us. In Future Grace, chapter by chapter—one for each day of the month—Piper reveals how cherishing the promises of God helps break the power of persistent sin issues like anxiety, despondency, greed, lust, bitterness, impatience, pride, misplaced shame, and more. Ultimate joy, peace, and hope in life and death are found in a confident, continual awareness of the reality of future grace.

This is a dynamic sermon, like teaching, on loving yourself before you destroy yourself and miss your blessings. Love is the greatest gift you can give to yourself. Loving yourself is also the greatest gift that you can give to others. When you love yourself, you are more relaxed and content with yourself as well as other people. Loving God and his Son, Jesus, is the first and greatest gift of all. Loving ourselves helps us to fulfill the second commandmentto extend such love to others and to the world. This book presents to you many of the tools you need in order to apply yourself with the love that you deserve. If you do not know how to receive the love, you need to overcome feelings of unworthiness that were fed into you in the past. This book can help you. It shares with you how to receive the benefits of living the abundant life that you where intended to live. For a long time, I experienced significant damage from not loving myself. This can destroy a person mentally, emotionally, and socially and keep him or her from obtaining the abundant, happy life that God intended for all of his children to have. I hope that by applying the tools that this book offers, you will understand and follow the way that has helped me. Love Yourself Before You Destroy Yourself and Miss Your Blessings will teach you how to walk in love, faith, and confidence, knowing that you are made in the image of God.

Preaching through the Liturgical Year and other Occasions is a book on sermons that can be used through the calendar year. This book places emphasis on the various days that are highlighted in the Christian year, as well as other occasions such as Mother’s and Father’s Day, baptism, New Year’s Day, and Women’s and Men’s Day, and the church anniversary. There are eighty-seven short messages that can be used as a resource or as a seed for developing sermons, speeches, and Bible studies. Much study, research, and prayer has gone into these sermons. May they be a blessing to the reader and hearer of God’s Word.