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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.
This one is great. I visited a church last year and everything was going great- the worship music rocked! Then the pastor came up and delivered a sermon of God's conditional love for us. Forgive others or God won't forgive you...if you don't forgive you are out of fellowship with God. The oxygen left the room. Did you ever sit in a sermon just to be nice? I so badly wanted to stand up a scream out "God's love is unconditional!" It is out of his unconditional love towards us that we can move into true, freeing forgiveness towards others. Forgiven from God means it is done- finished for Him.
ReplyDeleteHaving gone through horrific abuse for many years by an ex-spouse, I have had some well-meaning Christians counsel me that "I am not quite sure you have truly forgiven' when I have spoken truth and maintained healthy boundaries. He has never repented. Then I would be hit with the lie that I was now "not forgiven by God." I physically deal with the pain of that abuse continually. It is only by the grace of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, that I have forgiven but it has been a process. Keeping my focus on Christ's love towards me- no matter how I might sin- is so refreshing. I find myself even loving those who, by their words, have added additional hurt. Additionally, trying to measure "how well" I have forgiven is futile.
ReplyDelete@jeanette, in addition to what you've said, ppl should recognize that the bible never calls on us to forgive unrepentant sinners. nowhere does god offer forgiveness and remission of sins for the unrepentant sinner. we must confess our sins, then he forgives them...true forgiveness is a dialogue, not a monologue.
ReplyDeleteI respectfully disagree with DKC. Unforgiveness is poison to us. When Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them" from the cross, nobody there was repentant.
ReplyDeleteWe forgive because we have been forgiven by God.
Jeanette - I do believe that, while it brings healing to forgive offenders, that doesn't mean we are to allow them to abuse us. We can forgive and still stand firm in order not to be abused again.
What about matt 6: 15 ? If we don't forgive others, God won't forgive us. Because how we treat others if how we treat God.
ReplyDeleteBrandon - Jesus spoke those words before the cross. After the cross, all the verses in the NT that speak to the matter of forgiving others teach that we forgive *as we have been forgiven.* Under the New Covenant, things are different than they were under the Old. The New Covenant began upon the death of Jesus. His public ministry was speaking to those still under the Old.
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