GRACE
What is grace?  The most basic definition is "unmerited favor."  God has been stretching my understanding of grace for the past ten years. He has been taking me deeper into the incomprehensible depths of His grace toward me. His grace not only saved me from eternal death, by forgiving me of all my sin and making me a new creature, but His grace also enables me to live the Christian life.
 
It is this second part, grace for living, which was completely new to me.  As a minister of music, I sang many songs about grace from the hymnbooks.  Most of those hymns were about God's saving grace, but they didn't mention God's grace for living.  I was dependent on His grace for salvation, but I was depending on my self-effort to be obedient to God's commandments for living.  I didn't realize that was a broken system, even though the outcome of my Christian walk was very broken.

Tom Price 
IOM Staff Writer

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THE ART OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE
By Dr. Stephen Phinney

This book unfolds the spiritual secrets to a free life. As a sword, the Word has the power to penetrate the life of every being that hears it, and that includes the enemy. It is meant to do corrective surgery within the soul, spirit, thoughts, attitudes, and body of all who hear it. This is the secret of its power against the enemy.
 
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