Grafted by Faith into God’s Deep Love

Grafted by Faith into God’s Deep Love

God––after breaking us off from our cursed familiar tree––grafts us by faith into his tree of life and salvation. His plan has always been for his people to live by trusting in him and his promises. So has God’s Plan A failed? Absolutely not! He has the power to graft...
Grafted by Faith into God’s Deep Love

Frozen Hearts

Where do we turn if the greatest barrier to connecting with God is inside us? Our passage this week uses sensory images to describe the shape and cause of hardened hearts. These vivid pictures lead us to ask the most important question: how do you melt a frozen heart?...
Grafted by Faith into God’s Deep Love

God Never, Never, Never Gives Up on Us!

Often in a mobster movie, we will hear the crime boss say to a person who has betrayed them, “You’re dead to me!” From that point on in the movie, they become persona non grata, which is Latin for “a person who is unacceptable or unwelcome”. Is that what God did to...
Grafted by Faith into God’s Deep Love

The (Old Testament?) Word About Christ

If anyone reads the Scripture carefully, they will find some word, some hidden treasure in the field, which is Christ.” These words are from the 2nd Century and they reflect God’s own idea that the whole Bible is about Jesus and discovering all that the...
Grafted by Faith into God’s Deep Love

Jesus is At the Door

Paul’s ”twist” to the story Deuteronomy 30:14 (TiPCFGCTTGOGRTOTV*) 14But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it realize there is no possible way you can do it (Rom 1, 2). And yet, the law requires perfection (Rom 3:23)....