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Books To Help You In Your Grace Walk
Eight weekly studies divided into daily studies for personal or group use. There is also a DVD series to go with this workbook.
A Great Book For Teaching Children The Grace Walk
Lori Zenker, wife of Grace Walk Canada Director, Mike Zenker has written a great book for children to go along with the Grace Walk Experience.
Popular Audio/Video Materials The Grace Walk Conference
This is the foundational message I teach.
How the grace walk applies to practical areas of life.
A grace-based way to know God's will.
How to get past terrible hurts in your life.
Finding victory by changing how you think.
How to defeat the enemy when attacked.
Overcoming depression, anger, guilt and fear
How to integrate your faith and career
A study on legalism from the book of Galatians.
How to fulfill your potential through grace.
God's Grace In The Old Testament
A series of audio teachings with 4 half hour sessions on each book of the Old Testament.
Grace Walk Recovery Ministry Director, Mike and Julia Quarles have written the best book on addiction I have seen.
My good friend, Paul Anderson-Walsh has written a great book that shows how religion can stunt your spiritual growth.
Paul Anderson-Walsh's first in a trilogy he is writing.
The second in the Paul Anderson-Walsh trilogy...my favorite.
The best book on listening I have ever read.
Grace Walk Spanish Resources
There are a number of resources available in Spanish. Click on the Spanish book cover to see it all.
i enjoyed his teachings he is on the mark.. its all Jesus
ReplyDeleteA little confused on this one. Define "habitual" please. How long can a Christian sin before it becomes habitual? Can not a believer sin habitually??? I believe the Scriptures affirm that. Believers can make a shipwreck of their faith and even depart from it as some have done.
ReplyDeleteArguing habitual is a problem to me. I find it impossible to say that a Christian cannot sin habitually. If a believer cannot sin habitually then we can certainly judge many as lost and share again the gospel to them.
We may say that they will experience divine discipline but that doesn't guarantee that they will repent and this I believe can go on for years.
I know your messages are short and you cannot cover everything but habitual was a little vague to me.
Dave, I admit that it would be difficult to define "habitual" here. 1 John 3:9 suggests that because God's seed is in the believer, he can not "practice" (NAS) sin. The word seems to indicate an ongoing, continuous way of life.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that God's grace will outlast our sins, even if a person will "make a shipwreck of their faith."
The point of this particular blog was to suggest that we can't get out of fellowship with God. It seems that my incidental use of the word "habitual" threw a monkey wrench in the works for you. I want trying to make a point by using that word.I probably could have used a better word here, but hope you get the point I was trying to make.
As to whether or not a Christian can sin "habitually," I suppose that would be a lengthly discussion for another day :) I do wonder how you would understand 1 John 3:9 though. I'm not dogmatic on this. I'm not comfortable saying that a Christian will "habitually" live a lifestyle of sin, but neither would I deny that a believer can sometimes get bogged down in sinful behavior that certainly looks habitual.