Our Resolute Hope Podcast

Pivotal Words – When Grace Doesn’t Seem Gracious (part 5)

If God is grace, why do bad things happen in our lives?  As with Job, He allows them … so we can know Him better.  His grace always does the most constructive, redemptive thing for us … even if it hurts.

Pivotal Words – Grace Isn’t Passive (part 4)

Grace doesn’t make us passive, despite what some believe.  It motivates us from within, so we can abound in every good work.  Paul wrote, “I work harder than any, though not I, but God’s grace within me”.

Pivotal Words – Grace (part 3)

Many believe grace alone leads to license, so we must balance it with law to stop sinning.  But grace and law don’t work that way.  Grace brings us life, law brings us death.  Only grace can teach us to honor God with our lives.

Pivotal Words – Grace (part 2)

Grace isn’t something God has, it’s something He is.  Grace does the most loving, constructive, redemptive, and honoring thing for us … and does it with elegance, treating us like royalty, kids of the King.

Pivotal Words – Grace (part 1)

We use the word grace often, but what does it mean?  It’s not an attitude, a doctrine, or a message.  Grace is a person, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Every facet of God’s grace is wrapped up in Jesus.  He is grace personified.

Pivotal Words – But God (part 3)

Philippians 2 presents the greatest ‘But God’ in Scripture.  While we were dead to God, because of His great love for us, He made a way for us to receive what we need most … life together with Christ!

Pivotal Words – But God (part 2)

God provided kindness, forgiveness, comfort, and restoration for Joseph and his brothers in the nightmare that was Egypt.  The brothers' intended evil became God’s miraculous path of good, fully turning their mourning into joy.

Pivotal Words – But God

Few phrases change our perspective more than ‘But God’.  Joseph’s time in Egypt shows how Father can use the worst circumstances imaginable to bring about His greatest glory ... and our greatest good.

You’re Dead to the World … So Act Like It! Colossians 2:20-23

Self-made religion, and the efforts which accompany it, abound in the modern church.  These behaviors might look good, but they fail a key test.  They are useless against the indulgence of the flesh.

Don’t Be Defrauded. Colossians 2:18-19

Many focus more on ‘proper Christian behavior’ than on Christ Himself, and they miss out on the full blessings of being God’s children.  We’re to stand strong against any who will lead us away from Jesus.