By Pete Briscoe
August 26, 2018
“Mephibosheth!” No, I didn't just sneeze. That's a name. It's a guy in the Bible. He's one of my favorite biblical characters partly because I love his name so much.
By Pete Briscoe
August 25, 2018
After decades of following Jesus and studying His life, I'm still amazed at the graphic contrasts that set Him apart from everything and everyone else. The contrast between law and grace...
By Pete Briscoe
August 24, 2018
God gives us a lot of pictures of grace in the Bible. Since it's not too cool to have real pictures in our Bibles anymore, God gives them to us in words to keep our attention and...
By Pete Briscoe
August 23, 2018
Some people are grace-based. Others are not. Some churches are grace-based, others are not. Every individual and every institution can be works-based by trying to use law...
By Pete Briscoe
August 22, 2018
I have to be honest. There's a difference between Christians who embrace grace and those that do not. Sometimes those that are not living in grace have a hard time understanding why...
By Pete Briscoe
August 21, 2018
When learning to read and write, teachers first taught us “sight words.” These are basic words like a, and, big, blue, can, go, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one.
By Pete Briscoe
August 20, 2018
We've been studying what it means to be "in Christ," a phrase found in the opening line of Paul's letter to the Colossians...
By Pete Briscoe
August 19, 2018
Words are powerful. Words that label us are some of the most powerful of all… and all of us have them. The problem is that many of the sinful labels seem to brand us and actually...
By Pete Briscoe
August 18, 2018
I like a short poem that was a favorite of Hudson Taylor, an English missionary who took a huge step of faith to take the good news about Christ to China in 1854. “The steps of faith… fall on the seeming void...”
By Pete Briscoe
August 17, 2018
Believe it or not, there is a controversy going on that is even older than whether we should sing more hymns or more choruses in church. It's the “nature vs. nurture” debate. There's a lot of discussion...