These verses expose the futility of legalism, the idea that we are made right with God through obedience to the law. Instead we are righteous before God because of his amazing grace and mercy. Therefore, as children of God we pray we are kept from slipping into legalism, and instead grow in maturity by focusing...
Sermon Tag: Mercy
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Bursting With Thanksgiving! | Colossians 1 v 1-14
Our response to God’s mercy and grace received by us can only be one of thanksgiving! So, let us as people of God burst with thanksgiving for all God has done and continues to do.
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Grace for Salvation | Acts 9
The conversion of Saul to Paul demonstrates the amazing grace of God in salvation. But it also shows us how grace given through the Holy Spirit equips and empowers us to live as faithful followers of Christ.
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Jonah’s Anger, God’s Grace – Jonah 4
What makes you angry and what does that reveal about your heart? Jonah’s anger towards God for showing mercy to Nineveh shows how much hate and racism is in his heart. And yet God is a gracious God, merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and relenting in disaster – these wonderful characteristics of...
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Repentance, Repentance, Repentance – Jonah 3
In Jonah 3, Jonah repents, the people of Nineveh repent and even God repents (in a sense and said with great theological carefulness). This chapter is a call for all of us to call on God for mercy for the sins we have committed.