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Articles for 2010
- What's at the heart of the Christian life
- Concluding the column series on the means of grace by presenting the means of grace as lying at the very heart of the Christian life, for both individual disciples and whole congregations.
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From ordinary grace to extraordinary grace
Reflecting on extraordinary experiences of grace given to us by the Holy Spirit - including how the ordinary means of grace can prepare us to receive them.
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Finding God's grace outside the norm
Identifying the prudential means of grace as those we learn - through the wisdom of practical experience - to be practices wherein we can receive God's saving grace. These aren't commanded in the Bible but are fully congruent with Scriptural teaching.
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Recommitment & Reform in Holy Communion
Emphasizing the need to see Holy Communion as a chief means of grace, which requires both recommitment and reform of our Eucharistic practice in the church.
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Practicing what we preach
Engaging with a helpful critique of Bishop Will Willimon's on a too-close focus on "Christian practices" in place of the God who stands behind them; further, locating the means of grace as practices that open us to the transforming power of Jesus Christ.
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Searching the Scriptures
Taking the practice of "searching the Scriptures" as an example of one of the chief means of grace, and one that allows us to see the Word of God as formative of our faith.
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Trading new patterns for old
Continuing a series on the means of grace, and suggesting that through these "disciplined practices of Christian formation" we can adopt a pattern of life that draws us along the path of salvation.
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Renewal is found in Wesley's 'means of grace'
Beginning a new column series on the means of grace in Christian discipleship, by explaining how the means of grace are practices given to us to grow closer to God.
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