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1. Hosted by Windsor Park Baptist Church

2. 1. I tend to assume that the hardest option is probably the
godliest. In other words, the obedient way is probably the
harder of the 2 ways.
2. I rarely ask forgiveness only once for any „significant
transgressions‟ even if i truly repented the first time.
3. I tend not to feel back in God‟s “good graces” right away
after repentance.
4. I catch myself wanting to pay penance after feeling like I‟ve
really messed up.

3. 5. I think God loves me but in spite of me and not because I‟m
loveable.
6. Truth be told, Jesus‟ parable about the workers who get paid
equal wages regardless of how long or short a time they worked
seems a bit disconcerting.
7. I deal with a fair amount of anxiety in my spiritual life.
8. I struggle with considerable self-condemnation.
9. I find it easier to tell others how much God loves them than to
believe it for myself.
10. I feel I must always bear up with people who have wronged me
over and over.

4. 11. I tend to feel guilty about some of the good things in my
life.
12. I know God loves me but I think I often disappoint him.
13. Bonus question: Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and
drinking, but of righteousness, and peace, and joy in the
Holy Spirit.(HCSB) However, you would not know that from
being around me.

5. Grace is an inflated raft that can submerge to the floor of a sea to
save you
Grace is the silver thread that stitiches up the shreads of mangled
souls
is the eye that finds us where it refuses, ever?, to leave us
Grace calls the waitress to the table and sits her down to wash her
feet.
Grace sees underneath the manhole on the street of self destruction.
Grace is the air to draw a breath in the belly of a whale
Grace is the courage to stand in the shamed wake of a frightful
falling.
Grace is the only fire hot enough to burn down a living hell.
Grace waits with healing in his wings when we're too mad to pray.

6. Grace is the gravity that pulls us from depravity.
Grace races us to the throne when we make haste to repent - and always
outruns us.
Grace treats us like we already are what we fear we'll never become.
Grace is the doorpost dripping red when the angel of death grips the knob.
Grace is the stamp that says ransomed on a life that screams ruined.
Grace is the cloak that covers the naked and the palm that drops the rock.
Grace is divine power burgeoning in the absence of all strength.
Grace proves God true and every self-made man a liar for the sake of his own
soul.
Grace is the power to do what we cannot do for the name of Christ to go
where it has not been.
Grace is a room of a thousand mirrors, all reflecting the face of Christ.

7. eye popping, knee dropping
earth making, pride breaking
dark stabbing, heart grabbing
friend mending, mind bending
lame walking, mute talking
slave freeing, devil fleeing
death tolling, stone rolling
vein tearing, glory flowing
chin lifting, sin sifting
dirt bleaching, world reaching
past covering, spirit hovering
child defending, happy ending
heaven glancing, feet dancing...
POWER OF THE CROSS...
Jesus Christ, Grace Incarnate.
Amen.