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Category Archives: Focus On Grace Article
If You Love Me … (Focus On Grace, March 2013)
I once attended a church that set great store on how a Christian behaved. How you dressed, the words you used in conversation, the kinds of books you read, how you entertained yourself, and how much you participated in church … Continue reading
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What Are You Doing? (Focus on Grace, February 2013)
When I was a young man, I worked as a counselor at a Christian camp. This was the kind of place where people shipped off their kids, to spend a week in a Christian environment, hear about the Lord, and … Continue reading
Getting It Right (Focus on Grace, January 2013)
Picture, if you will, a man. He is young, still somewhat idealistic, passionate and energetic. His friends, if asked to describe him with one word, would say things like, “faithful,” “devout,” and “intense,” and they would mean those things in … Continue reading
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Experiencing Church (Focus on Grace, November 2012)
Author’s Note: this article was written more than a year and a half prior to my last post, “Playing Church,” but looks at the same issue through a slightly different lens. I actually hadn’t realized I was picking up on … Continue reading
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What Is Your Opinion Worth? (Focus on Grace, October 2012)
I’ve always been somewhat baffled by protests. I don’t mean the earnest, sometimes violent, types of protests, like I grew up with in the sixties, or the kinds that have been storming the Arab world this past year. Those kinds … Continue reading
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Taking a Wider View (Focus On Grace, September 2012)
I had a physics teacher when I was in high school who had a reputation for being brilliant. He held patents for manufacturing some of the first solid-state electronic components (selenium rectifiers), and he worked on the Manhattan Project when … Continue reading
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The Law of Love (Focus on Grace, August 2012)
People love laws. I can almost hear the protests from here … examples of the many, many rule-breakers, rebels, and otherwise lawless types; everyone has a story, an example of just how wrong that opening statement is. Let me tell … Continue reading
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Color Blind (Focus On Grace, July, 2012)
I had a helper at work some years ago who was color blind. He couldn’t tell the difference between red and green; the only way he knew whether to stop or go at a traffic light was by whether the … Continue reading
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Accepting God’s Will (Focus on Grace, December 2011)
Every Christian agrees that it’s important to do God’s will. As the old hymn says, “trust and obey, for there’s no other way, to be happy in Jesus …” But that only covers the things we choose to do either … Continue reading
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