Grace Of God

The audience was full of prodigals. The unfaithful spouses in the wake of infidelity; the addicted parents drinking to numb the pain; the reckless gamblers racking up debt; the deceitful professionals committing fraud; the selfish gluttons, absorbed in decadence; the self-righteous pastors/teachers whose faith in God was shaken if it…

Grace upon Grace — The Beginning Early Childhood As a young child I was always perfectly happy playing around on the piano at the Cottons nursing home. It was run by my aunt Clara Cotton, and my granny Tuck lived there. I played the organ at Aunt Wanda’s house where…

As the bar crowd started pouring a little diner, Sally was extra loud when sat down next to pastor Tony. She asked, “Ya want some company?” “No thanks,” he responded. “Damn! Looks like I ain’t making no money tonight,” Sally shouted. …

And celebrating my wins in lowercase — It always starts with 'don’t worry, another one will come' or 'move on to the next one’. How I thought I’d have built resistance to 'I’m so sorry it didn’t work out' — but I haven’t. It stings with a different kind of pain. Rejection after rejection, I’ve lost track…

As a story teller, sometimes I find myself changing the trajectory of my articles. I could start off to write a tragedy, then change to a “happily ever after". I am the author, so I decide. My main focus is to achieve an expected end. I believe this is how God's grace rewrites the stories of our lives. Left to the enemy, our stories will end negatively. Jesus addressed Peter about this in Luke. Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. (Luke 22:31–34, NIV)

Every year, the month of January rings in the invocation of lord Surya, the Sun God. We also welcome the year with a festival named Makar Sankranti that marks crop harvests, like rice, lentils, beans, sorghum, and millet. Some call the festival Maghi. This festival follows the Solar cycle and…

The produce department of every grocery store will suddenly increase sales. Gym memberships will also spike. Debt consolidators are standing by. Every product or service advertised will make promises of a changed life, for its prospective consumers, yet, there is nothing new under the sun (Eccl 1:9). The discontent of…

I did a quick word study in the Bible, to survey the adjectives in front of the word “grace.” What I discovered was that there was only one type of adjective, and it was descriptive of a measurement in every case. It translates as abundant, greater, more, and sufficient. In…

What Is the Work of God? — There is a large portion of Christianity that, instead of preaching the Gospel- that Jesus died for our sins and we may be forgiven, are preaching that Christians need to fulfill a destiny. This destiny is a veiled, slightly mysterious thing. It is your quest as a Christian to figure…