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“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of His grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. Every day should be a day of relating to God on the basis of his grace alone.”-Jerry Bridges Grace. I need it. Bad. Grace. I’m...

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done; I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate; I...

Tomorrow I will make a 4 1/2 hour drive to Detroit. I love the city of Detroit, but mostly some of my favorite people are in the “D”. My best friend Brendan lives there. So, tomorrow I am driving 4 1/4 hours for a man-date. But this is no ordinary man-date. Tommorow night...

“Exile and restoration: this is the central drama that Israel believed herself to be acting out. And the story of the prodigal says, quite simply: this hope is now being fulfilled-but it does not look like what was expected. Israel went into exile because of her own folly and...