On a November evening, Victoria Ruvolo, a forty-four-year-old New Yorker, was driving to her home on Long Island. She’d just attended her niece’s recital and was ready for the couch, a warm fire, and relaxation. She doesn’t remember seeing the silver Nissan approach from the east. She remembers nothing of the eighteen- year-old boy leaning…
Saving Grace
Jesus already knows the cost of grace. He already knows the price of forgiveness. But He offers it anyway. God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8 God didn’t look at our frazzled lives and say, “I’ll die for you when you…
Jesus Paid It All For Us
Back in our elementary school days, my brother received a BB gun for Christmas. We immediately set up a firing range in the backyard and spent the afternoon shooting at an archery target. Growing bored with the ease of hitting the circle, my brother sent me to fetch a hand mirror. He placed the gun…
God Changes Hearts
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and He returns the favor. “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you.” — Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) Some years ago I underwent a heart procedure. My heartbeat had the regularity of a…
You are God’s Masterpiece
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…