Category: The Graceline

Always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth (2 Timothy 3:7 NIV). I’ve spent my entire life learning. I have a bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees and have been to more seminars and read more books than I can count. As I become more and more chronologically gifted,…

Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.  —Hebrews 10:24 NLT Some of the greatest success stories of history have followed a word of encouragement or an act of confidence by a loved one or a trusting friend. Had it not been for a…

“And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?” (Matthew 7:3 NLT). I remember reading about a woman who purchased a magazine, a cup of coffee and a package of cookies at an airport canteen. She sat down at a table…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why we are here on this planet. If God wanted fellowship with us, why didn’t He just keep us up there in heaven with Him? What purpose does God have for us anyway? Is it to become theologians so we can expound upon…

Ask Me and I will tell you some remarkable secrets about what is going to happen here (Jeremiah 33:3 NLT). Henry Blackaby, the author of Experiencing God, said that we often get the wrong answer because we ask the wrong question. The wrong question: “What is God’s will for my…

Polaris is our north star for the time being. I say “our” because there are really five north stars. The reason for that is because the earth is spinning like a top at an angle of 23½ degrees. And it is wobbling like a spinning top when it starts to…

Whatever we do, it is because Christ’s love controls us.  —2 Corinthians 5:14 NLT Is Jesus your final answer? Does His love, and His love alone, control you? Have you surrendered your life… your dreams… your hopes… your desires… your whole being to Christ? If not, you are not controlled…

Watchman Nee is my spiritual hero in the faith. He has forgotten more about God than I will ever know. He and God traveled some really tough stretches together on his journey before he took up permanent residence with the Lord on June 1, 1972. During that time, the Lord…

There was a certain Professor of Religion named Dr. Christensen, a studious man who taught at a small college in the Western United States.  Dr. Christensen taught the required survey course in Christianity at this particular institution.  Every student was required to take this course his/her freshman year, regardless of…

We discover in The Room of Grace that the almost unthinkable has happened. God has shown all his cards. (Hebrews 1:1-2) He reveals a breathtaking protection that brings us out of hiding. (Hebrews 10:19-22) In essence God says, what if I tell them who they are? (1John 3:1-2) What if…