Two Roads

by John Lynch, TrueFaced.com.

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I believe this is one of the (if not, the) best messages on Grace I've ever heard.

If you have been striving hard to please God, with no apparent success in the endeavor, I urge you to watch this video.

Where was your free will when Adam plunged you into death???

"Many of my pastor brothers love to tell us that our free will is so precious to God that because of His great love to us He dares not violate it. But He sure violated it in the fall. God apparently to some does not mind violating your free will in order for you to perish, but He becomes suddenly reluctant to violate your free will to save you. Where was your free will when Adam plunged you into death???"

- Don Keathley

The More You Know, The Less You Realize You Know...

"A life of faith is not defined by being proud of your answers; rather, it's defined by your humility to keep asking questions. 

When it comes to living a spiritual life of faith, the more you know, the less you realize you know, and therefore the more eager and prepared you are to keep seeking the truth. Don't be afraid to ask questions. That is what seeking the truth is: It's like picking up a question, throwing it into the dark forest outside, then taking the lamp of the Holy Spirit upon your feet, and, one step at a time, walking by faith until you not only find the question again, but also the answer wrapped around it as well."

- Mick Mooney

"Did you believe that I loved you?"

by Brennan Manning.

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The New Testament Gamble

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God Cannot Be Boxed In

“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.” 

- Brennan Manning

Rest

"Rest. Rest. Rest in God's love. The only work you are required now to do is to give your most intense attention to His still, small voice within." 

- Madame Jeanne Guyon

Spurgeon's Take on Giving

"But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! 

There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness." 

- Charles Spurgeon

Was Jesus Advocating Cannibalism?

"Just because Jesus talked about yeast, that in a literal sense is used to make bread, doesn’t mean he was talking literally about bread. Just because Jesus talked about being put outside with gnashing of teeth doesn’t mean he was talking about some kind of eternal torture. Just because Jesus talked about eating his flesh doesn’t mean he is talking about cannibalism.

We have to look into his words for the deeper, more divine message he shared if we want to actually understand what he is really talking about. That requires both humility and time, because it will only be revealed to us in God’s timing, not ours. Sometimes, that means walking for months, years or even decades without a full arsenal of definite answers. This is also not a bad thing."

This is an excerpt from Mick Mooney's post - The Problem With Interpreting Jesus' Words Literally

The Heart Wins

I'm looking forward to the day when more and more people will see, and boldly proclaim about the gaping holes in the empty and the fear-based doctrine of the eternal torment in the mythical and a very mistranslated word called "hell".

The heart knows that answer, that a "loving Father" would never do that; but it's the pre-conditioned mind that hinders the light from flooding in. 

The good news is, given time, the heart wins.