Audacious Grace

“If we could match current church practices with what the earliest church understood and emphasized about following Christ, then it would be the purest form of what Jesus talked about his disciples creating after his ascension.”  That’s an assumption that many believers readily accept and spend tons of energy attempting to achieve.  In fact, numerous [...]

HeartConnexion Seminars presents Paul Young, C. Baxter Kruger and Paul Fitzgerald sharing at The Shack Revisited Conference, May 21, 2011. Special thanks to Brad Hill, Dave Lingenfelter, Vanessa Kersting, Tee Walker, Jennifer Merriner, Dan McNight (pastor of Kaw Prairie Community Church), his staff and amazing volunteers. All sessions are available as audio download or to [...]

Amazing that our “filters”through which we read books and Scripture that keep us from seeing what is in plain sight. I guess it’s just too audacious for us to take in so we don’t see it. How many times have I read C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity and not really seen this paragraph! “What, then, [...]

In a recent conversation with Andre Oosthuizen on Facebook, I shared some of my journey to see internalized-shame as the significant barrier to internalizing grace. Andre lives in Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal and has a wide-ranging ministry that is built on a “new paradigm” understanding about grace. The paradox is that this “new paradigm” is really the [...]

A comment to a previous post continues to bounce around in my mind like a pinball machine – thanks Lenny. I heard believers “…stating that only “Christian(s)” do the “right thing” for nonselfish reasons and non-believers do the “right thing” for selfish motives. These people have been believers since childhood. It is my opinion that [...]