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There, But for Grace
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In the early 1500s, a reformer and martyr in the church of England, John Bradford is attributed an oft-repeated quote. Upon seeing a group of prisoners being led to execution, he said “But for the grace of God goes John Bradford.”
I have heard it in many sermons and testimonies — “There, but for the grace of God, go I.” Intended to be a statement of humility, the sentiment is such that without God’s grace I could be, or maybe even would be, in the same situation as this poor, sin-laden ...
The Great Deception Trap is Set (Part IV)
It’s often easier to imagine an unimaginable sci-fi thriller unfolding to the end of the age than an unrestrained, real-life evil. There are clearly sci-fi events detailed to occur at the end, but most of what we read in the Bible about the end-times is an unrestrained version of life as we know it. Somehow it is easier to conjure up an out-of-this-world ending rather than an ending rooted in...