Month: June 2022

The Woes of the Pharisees, which we’ve been studying for many months now in Matthew 23, are serious, judgmental, and condemnatory. We’re finally now concluding the study of the seven Woes. But as harsh as they are, Jesus concludes the Woes with an offer of grace, using the simile of a chicken covering her chicks…

As Michael has so eloquently put it, once you find grace, it seems like it’s everywhere. We need more discussion on some things I think we haven’t tied up yet. You may be tired of our discussion of grace, but it is our good fortune that grace is never tired of us. David keeps emphasizing…

Grace is one of the great mysteries of God. The widespread, ubiquitous reach of grace is manifest in God’s being the God of all mankind. And as we’ve been discussing this past few weeks, it has a mysterious transforming quality as well. We are changed, Paul says, by grace, in a moment, in the twinkling…

Last week, as we were wrapping up our discussion, Michael asked: Would grace be easier to accept if we saw God as a female rather than as a male? Is a mother’s love more tender, more forgiving, more durable than a father’s love? Maybe saying it another way: Is there a cultural component to the…