grace from 2 samuel 11

Karl Barth was right when he termed God’s grace his great “nevertheless.”

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

Through Jesus’s family tree, God puts his grace on display. God is reminding us that he can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves: pick up broken pieces and put them together, take broken lives an...

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. . . . Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to withdraw it in the presence of human demerit. . . . [Gra...