Tag: Grace
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Day 016: Abram the Crosser-Over
The first time Abram is called “the Hebrew,” the Bible isn’t naming his ethnicity so much as his story. He is the crosser-over—the man who passed out of death and into promise. And in Genesis 15, we discover that the God who calls us to cross is also the God who crosses for us.
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Day 319: The Sweet Aroma of Redemption (John 21:9-12)
When Peter smelled the charcoal fire on the shore of Galilee, he was pulled back to the night of his greatest failure. But Jesus didn’t build that fire to shame him—He built it to restore him. Jesus didn’t need the fish that morning. He wanted the fisherman.
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Day 312: Does the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats Teach Works-Righteousness? (Matthew 25:31-46)
When Keith Green thundered, “The only difference between the sheep and the goats is what they did and didn’t do,” he captured the urgency of Jesus’ words in Matthew 25. But was Jesus really teaching salvation by works? This parable doesn’t show how we earn salvation—it shows what saving grace inevitably produces.
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Day 300: Proximity to Power (Luke 14:7-11)
8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, 9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with…
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Day 296: The “Problem” of John 8:1-11
Many readers are startled to see a warning in their Bibles that the story of the woman caught in adultery isn’t in the earliest manuscripts. Does that mean it didn’t happen? In this post, James explores why this beloved passage moves around the manuscripts—and why its “interruption” may be exactly where it belongs.
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Day 284: Faith Sometimes Has Its Doubts (Luke 7:18–35)
From Herod’s prison, John the Baptist sent messengers to ask if Jesus was truly the Messiah. His confusion wasn’t rebellion—it was the collision of expectation and revelation. Jesus answered with evidence from Isaiah, revealing a kingdom of mercy before judgment.