Ethnic allegiance must be secondary to our allegiance to God. "So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation, anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching the good news… Continue reading Everything is Secondary 2
Everything is Secondary
A five-part series about priorities This is a five-session devotion considering the pre-eminence of Jesus over everything else in this mortal life. Ideology has taken over faith in many churches and among many people who call themselves Christian. I don't think anyone will argue that the world is bitterly divided in 2024. Wars, both heavily… Continue reading Everything is Secondary
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Personalities
And how they affect grace I haven't thought much about personality types in a while, but I read a post the other day that got me thinking about how personality may influence how we extend grace to each other. For example, on the ever-popular Myers-Briggs spectrum, I am an INTJ. It's consistent, too, across both… Continue reading Personalities
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Fear is not all-powerful
God has prepared us for this very thing-Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! It's cold here in the South today. Nothing like what my friends in the North and Midwest experience, but when the temperature is below freezing for most of a week, these California-born fingers struggle to move. I can't sit close… Continue reading Fear is not all-powerful
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Grace Wears Pink
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep… Continue reading Grace Wears Pink
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Word for 2024
I am sitting in my living room. There is a fire in the fireplace. One dog is next to me and the other is sound asleep at my feet. My husband is in his recliner preparing for the work week. Michigan beat Alabama; the Longhorns and Huskies are tied. It has been a bus day,… Continue reading Word for 2024
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Hymn and Chant and High Thanksgiving
Fourth Sunday in Advent Thee let old men, thee let young men,Thee let boys in chorus sing;Matrons, virgins, little maidens,With glad voices answering:Let their guileless songs re-echo,And the heart its music bring,Evermore and evermore!Christ, to Thee with God the Father,and, O Holy Ghost, to Thee,hymn and chant and high thanksgivingand unwearied praises be,honor, glory, and… Continue reading Hymn and Chant and High Thanksgiving
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O ye Heights of Heav’n
Third Sunday of Advent The King of Glory will return to reign over His garden Kingdom. In the beginning, God made a garden. Yahweh Elohim (יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהִים) caused every tree that is pleasant to look at and filled with healthy food to spring up out of the newly created earth. In the middle of the… Continue reading O ye Heights of Heav’n
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O That birth Forever Blessed
An Advent devotion: Peace O that birth forever blessed, when a virgin, full of grace, by the Holy Ghost conceiving, bore the Savior of our race; and the Babe, the world’s Redeemer, first revealed His sacred face, evermore and evermore! This is He whom heav'n-taught singers sang of old with one accord, whom the Scriptures… Continue reading O That birth Forever Blessed
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Of the Father’s love begotten
An Advent devotion in four parts Of the Father’s love begotten,ere the worlds began to be,He is Alpha and Omega,He the Source, the Ending He,of the things that are, that have been,and that future years shall seeevermore and evermore! Aurelius Clemens Prudentius Part of my mission with Defaulting to Grace is to bind together followers… Continue reading Of the Father’s love begotten
Defaulting to Grace 