Podcast: What’s the Difference Between MERCY and GRACE?

Forgiving the Unforgivable April 3, 2013

Osheta Moore wrote a courageous and challenging post last week entitled Washing the Feet of the Steubenville Rapists. It’s not an easy read, and if you’re vulnerable to triggers in this area, you might want to exercise caution. But Osheta offers a glimpse of redemption in the darkest of places. Can we move towards forgiveness…

Welcoming Strangers October 14, 2015

Zack Hunt shared this video over on his website and we loved it so much that we wanted to share it as well. There are many opportunities to demonstrate the reality of God to the world around us, if we’ll only start to open our eyes and hearts. How might God be inviting you to put his…

Generous Grace May 22, 2013

Michelle Brea via Compfight Mark McIntyre wrote a piece on his blog called Selective Grace that highlights the ways in which the church tends to more easily demonstrate grace with some than with others. It’s a call to a more generous grace that does not distinguish between particular sins or particular differences in belief. How…

Lighten Up: The Unmerciful Servant September 11, 2015

Podcast: If Nobody Can Come to Jesus Unless God Draws Them, Isn’t Salvation Predestined? June 19, 2017

John 6:64-65 sounds very predestination-y. Is it? Greg considers the nature of God’s ‘drawing’ of us to Christ. Are those who are not drawn excluded due to some in God? Or something in those individuals? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0170.mp3

Forgiving (and Loving!) Your Only Son’s Killer October 30, 2013

StoryCorps is an organization whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of their lives. We came across this extraordinary story on The Daily Beast and had to share it.  Mary Johnson’s only son, 20 year old Laramiun Byrd, was murdered during a…