Grace is one of those topics that can get complicated really fast. I find when conversations about God and grace start to get complicated, it’s best to revisit the basics. What is the spiritual meaning of grace? Simply put, grace is when God (or anyone really) gives us goodness that we don’t deserve.
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For anyone trying to keep it together on the days leading up to Easter Sunday…this is for you. I don’t know what your “chaos” looks like this week. But God does. Maybe it’s normal chaos. We are far gone from a normal 40-hour workweek as it was decades ago. More is on our plate than …
Are you looking for Bible verses about listening to others to seek Biblical truth about listening? When it comes to listening to others, I am admittedly a poor listener at times. I have so many thoughts flowing through my head that I am distracted. However, the Bible has much to say about listening to others …
Are you looking for bible verses about grace? Well, you have come to the right place. I used Blue Letter Bible to search out grace in the scriptures and found it in 159 verses in the King James Version of the bible. Several of those are the salutations and send-offs of the New Testament books, …
What does that phrase “the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” mean? How do you walk in something you cannot physically see? Why, if I have given my life to the Lord, is my flesh still weak? Picture it. Two toddlers playing in a toy kitchen. One reaches for a pot and …
No matter what type of travel you’re about to experience, make sure to bring these travel prayers with you! That moment on the runway when you know the surge forward of the airplane is coming exhilarates me every time. The gut punch of speed and feeling of semi-floating upon liftoff sends my spirits soaring as …
How to get closer to God…no matter what life throws at you. I half-heartedly listened as the lady in my small group shared what God had been doing in her life. It wasn’t that I didn’t care. It was that what she shared made me feel like I was doing something wrong. She seemed close …
Is your heart longing for a more intimate connection with God? Silent prayer may be the next step in your faith journey. Looking for a deep and meaningful way to encounter God in your prayer for faith and hope, but don’t know where to start? Let me begin with a story: I had finished cleaning …
Beauty from ashes…does it really happen? I never really understood the devastation of California wildfires until my friend’s brother and family lost their home to this run-a-way destructive force. One minute they had a home, business, and community, and in the next it all went up in smoke. Only ashes remained. I wondered what I …
Jessie Synan is a Ph.D. student in Bible Exposition who helps other women find their prayer focus in a distracting world. She went from her ADHD interfering with her prayer life to finding her own unique rhythms for prayer and encouraging other women to do the same. She is the founder of Pray With …