Author Archive: Pastor Carol Grace

Working out our salvation

NRSV) Phil 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his …

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The Humility of Christ

  (NRSV) Micah 6:8 He has told you, O mortal, what is good. and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (NRSV) Phil 2:1 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the …

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Going deeper with God

Psalm 42:1 As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. There comes a time in our lives when we recognize that a surface relationship with …

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Transformed

(NRSV) Rom 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may …

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Oh, What a Savior!

  Luke 4:16-21 (NKJV) 16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. 17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found …

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