Chris R. Quinlan

Do We Really Believe What We're Saying? from The Church at Brook Hills on Vimeo .

I was reading an article this morning about some controversy in Germany over a politician who is thought to have plagiarized most of his doctoral thesis, and I ran across the word 'prevaricate'. This is one of those words that I don't remember learning in school, but that I can usually figure out the meaning through the context. In today's case I couldn't easily figure out the meaning, so like I often do when I run across an interesting word that I feel like I should know the meaning of, I looked it up.  This was the perfect word for the title for today's post. Watch the video to find out why.

"Grace" is an attribute of God that is manifested by kindness and favor shown to all people in some measure, but especially toward those that receive salvation. Grace is similar to forgiveness in that a debt is released (that debt being sin), and similar to mercy in that God has shown restraint in punishing sin. (Rom. 4:8) However, Grace goes far beyond these acts. In showing grace, God not only withholds judgment, but showers the objects of His grace with abundant favor and blessing. By showing grace, however, sin goes unpunished for a time. Because of God's perfect righteousness, justice must be served, and all sin punished, or it could be said of God that He was not good. (Prov. 17:15) God's solution was to allow His son, Jesus, to take the wrath that was rightfully due to the objects of God's grace. This was accomplished when Jesus submitted himself to a sacrificial death by crucifixion. Because of the incalculable worth and sinless perfection of Jesus, this w...

The emerging church is not an evangelistic strategy. It is the last rung for evangelicals falling off  the ladder into liberalism or unbelief. An excerpt from a  review  of Rob Bell’s new book,  Love Wins, by   Kevin De Young