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GRACE HAS A FACE (October 24, 2025)

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2025/10/23

It’s natural to think of the story of our lives as a gradually rising line of progress.We were once toddlers: now we stride—and even race—through professions and relationships. Our minds have grown acute: we’ve mastered subtlety and sarcasm, posturing and self-promotion. We’ve learned the fine art of “faking it until we make it.” But the growling in the basement grows insistent. We sense—and if we read God’s Word, we know—that He’s not deceived by the polished spiritual résumé that a dozen

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FORGIVING AND FORGETTING (October 17, 2025)

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2025/10/16

Ah, the joys of a clear conscience.Entering a room of jostling colleagues, sure you’ve spoken kindly of each one. Finishing your tax return with certainty you’ve paid each charge the law required. Walking by mouth-watering chocolates for six days straight without even opening the box. This doesn’t sound like your story? You either? The inner voice that calls to mind our secret crossings of the line is rarely ever silent. While waiting for much-needed sleep, we churn on memories we’d love to lose

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A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE (October 10, 2025)

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2025/10/09

It’s natural enough to prize what benefits me most.Self-interest is the driving force in almost all our culture. Do I like it? Does it taste good? Did it make me laugh? Does it put money in my pocket? We measure almost everything by what we get and gain. And so it’s natural to think of something as extravagant as God’s unprecedented kindness as a kind of fortunate transaction that wipes away our past and entitles us to heaven. But God’s deep kindness in sending Jesus as the bearer of our sins was

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DELIGHTED BY THE MUSIC (October 03,2025

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2025/10/02

Have you ever listened to a dull and tired song—only to be stirred and thrilled when it reprised in some new, higher key? Then you know something of the grace of God, whatever else your story tells. Grace comes to us as unexpected joy when our performance, short or long—had lifted neither us nor anyone around us. We were muddling through the music, vocalizing rote notes and mangling the lyrics. We didn’t know a brighter, higher anthem lay hidden in the lines. But God in kindness teaches us to sing

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A LONG AND GRACIOUS STORY (September 26, 2025)

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2025/09/25

When most of what we read and see is governed by some soulless algorithm built to anger us or sell us something—it’s hard to know if joy is real, if love is kind, if gentle words are really meant to bless. And yet joy lingers, gentleness persists, and tens of millions of times a day, someone whispers “I love you” to a child, a spouse, a friend, a former enemy. This is true for both those who do not own the name of Jesus and for those who celebrate His power and love: “God’s love has been poured

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ALL OF GRACE, GRACE FOR ALL (September 19, 2025)

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2025/09/18

“He’s so much better than I am,” we say, proving just how little we know of someone else’s life.“She’s a saint,” we say admiringly, assuming that the woman we can see is always just as good as we imagine. We assign a top-notch grade to behaviors we observe, and make assumptions that the life consistency we can’t achieve is somehow available to others. But grace reminds us of the brokenness we share—each one of us—regardless of the estimate of others. Behind the fair façade of piety and cool, we

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COMING OUT OF THE DARK (September 12, 2025)

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2025/09/11

Going underground is one of humanity’s oldest responses to fear, war, or pestilence.Archaeologists have uncovered vast subterranean cities, carved out by those who believed that living in the light made them vulnerable. Victims of persecution, fugitives—even families fleeing natural disasters or climate shifts—all chose to dwell where only torches and flickering lamps could pierce the darkness. But human beings weren’t made for life underground. Our bodies, our minds, and even our food sources

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WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS (September 05, 2025)

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2025/09/04

“I just can’t catch a break,” he sighs, watching floodwaters climb five feet up the walls of his ruined home.“I’ve got plenty of luck,” she weeps over the crumpled fender of her old Toyota. “It’s just all bad.” The weary chorus of this world is a dirge about how little control we truly have. Medical bills crush us. Friendships we cherish grow distant and cold. The machines on which our lives depend break down with unnerving frequency. Those we love get sick and die. Is any of this seen by

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GRACEFULLY WRONG (August 29, 2025)

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2025/08/28

Most of us inherited a God no kinder than we were—a deity whose major role seemed meting out tough penalties for willful or impetuous mistakes.Like primitive believers everywhere, we read His displeasure in thunderstorms, bruised knees, and lost puppies—for was there anything for which we weren’t somehow to blame? So it is that finding grace is the great unlearning of our past, the sweet and joyful discovery that in Jesus, our sins aren’t being counted against us. What we sang in innocence was

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HIDE AND SEEK (August 22, 2025)

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2025/08/21

Ever thought of running away from God?Like naive children in moments of hot shame and brokenness, we imagine there’s some deeply-hidden spot where what we’ve done cannot be seen, where we can huddle with our guilt. Perhaps in some dark mountain cave. Perhaps beneath the blankets of our bed. Perhaps beneath the cellar stairs. But God—and grace—are inescapable, and our most private hiding spots are never hid from Him. The psalmist said it best: “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from

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VISIBLE GRACE (August 15, 2025)

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2025/08/14

Sometimes through the dust and smoke, we trace the features of a friend—someone whose rich, remembered kindness soothes the soul and calms the turbulence. We hold on to such people for good reason: they have held us—gripped us, even—when the world seemed topsy-turvy and every voice was loud.They were—they are—God’s grace in human form, a bit of heaven lingering to give us hope and get us through. In some faint way, they call to mind the one Who came to live among us and be one with us: “And the

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GROWING FAITH IN GOD (August 08, 2025)

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2025/08/07

What is the speed of trust?It’s an odd question, since rapid acceleration and safe, human connection seem antithetical—moving in opposite directions. And there’s the point—and the reason we don’t attempt lasting friendships while driving Formula 1 cars, in the backstretch of an 800-meter race, or while racing each other to the top of the corporate ladder. Speed implies competition, a desire to be better than the other. Trust cannot rush, for it unfolds only when our usual pride and combativeness

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THE HERO OF THE STORY (August 01, 2025)

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2025/07/31

We come naturally by our self-absorption. From our earliest moments, we’re congratulated for taking first steps, trying new foods, mastering new skills, for learning how to navigate the myriad complexities of an ever-widening world. The story is, and has always been, about us—our goals, our striving, our gaining, our getting.But then one day the world refused to be our private oyster. There was no pearl inside—just grit and sand and disappointment. And we began to long from somewhere deeper than

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THE IMMENSITY OF GRACE (July 25, 2025)

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2025/07/24

Grace isn’t fully knowable inside the monuments we’ve built. Our finest structures merely hint at what the Scriptures call the “breadth and length and height and depth” (Eph 3:18) of love the Father gives us.Cathedral arches just suggest the soaring kindness of our God. Our well-stocked libraries of knowledge—comprehensively collected; exquisitely curated—tell but a fraction of the story, deeper than our minds can grasp and gentler than our hearts can feel. Until you stand upon the ocean shore,

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THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS (July 18, 2025)

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2025/07/17

We dream of exploits that ensure our fame—of fortunes gained or mountains climbed or roles where we control the lives of other, lesser mortals. We gather things—disposables—to fill the hole made urgent by our angry greed.But we would gladly trade them all to be two modest, undramatic things at once: both deeply loved and finally forgiven. No accolades or billions earned will ever soothe a heart that can’t be reconciled. No power can heal the wound within unless it offers what no human skill can

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PLAYFUL, JOYFUL, WE ADORE THEE (July 11, 2025)

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2025/07/10

It’s every parent’s greatest joy to see a child at play—freely, joyously at play. And children—of whatever age—only play when they understand they’re safe—deeply, seriously safe.We don’t play on battlefields, in lightning storms, or when we doubt we’ll ever see tomorrow. And so the God of Scripture frequently must wait until we’ve outlived our fears before we grasp the fullness of His affection. We spend a lifetime learning just how richly we are loved, and why our God is always murmuring, “Fear

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HEALED ON THE WAY (July 04, 2025)

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2025/07/03

HEALED ON THE WAYLearning grace is slow and hard the way recovery of any kind is usually slow and hard. When a bone is broken or a muscle torn, no supply of godly wishing can speed the pace at which the healing happens. This moment’s not for optics, not for show: nothing less than patient, cellular recovery can make us whole again. And so no project that contemplates the complete overhaul of our personal theology, the transformation of our hearts and minds, and the mending of our wounded

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GRACE KNEELS (June 27, 2025)

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2025/06/26

Ah, to be the wounded one—the one who gets to be the powerful forgiver. We covet this rare role because we’re usually more sinning than we’re sinned against. And when it comes our turn to show the grace once given us, we linger with the choice, as if it were a heavy thing to pardon what’s been done.We can’t, of course, refuse forgiveness outright: Jesus tied our own forgiveness to the habit of forgiving. But first, a little groveling, we say. Some real contrition, perhaps a tear or ten. Some

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FORGIVENESS IN FULL FLOWER (June 20, 2025)

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2025/06/19

“Forgive me,” we say flippantly, painting on a shallow smile, when we discover we are misaligned with someone greater or more powerful—someone who might make us hurt.We view our error lightly—just a minor inconvenience—and we hope the one offended will quickly do the same. Why do the humbling work of owning all that happened and acknowledging its impact? But true forgiveness is a thoughtful, time-intensive mercy—never rushed if genuine; never brushed away if real. Unless we face the injury we’ve

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FIRST LIGHT, THEN GRACE (June 13, 2025)

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2025/06/12

Wherever grace is welcomed and received, joy follows, just as daylight follows dawn.And so we can read backwards from so many grayed-out, joyless souls to learn how few have heard and loved and lived the gospel. All fearful, anxious following of Jesus—all dim preoccupation with the things we've done or left undone—reveals that we are still in darkness, wrestling with the shadows Jesus rose to vanquish. “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the

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