Reprise On Being an EGR (Extra Grace Required) At least two or three times a week I check in on my weblog, www.disciplerofself.org, as I prepare a post. There is an application with it that keeps stats on visitors to the weblog…no names or emails or any identifying...
Grace and Truth Revisited“You want justice for everyone else and mercy for yourself.” That is a direct quote from a pastor spoken to a friend of mine that she shared with me this week as she and I were discussing a common tendency to put the cart before the...
Working as program manager for a Christian women’s recovery program is a joy. Most of the time the women coming to us are ready for a real change in their lives and, having tried so many other routes, are now ready to give God’s way a chance. Yesterday,...
I am a subscriber to the daily Purpose Driven Life devotionals and it just so happens that Pastor Jon Walker is today addressing the same thing that was on my heart yesterday as I wrote about “Extra Grace Required” people! So I’m sharing his...
Rev. Rick Warren has added yet another regularly used acronym to my vocabulary…..”EGR”, thanks to his use of it in his wildly successful Purpose Driven Life book. An “EGR” is an “Extra Grace Required” person in one’s...
John Wesley had a way of explaining grace to which I, and many others in the Methodist Church, have related. He said that the prevenient nature of God’s grace is like like a porch that invites and welcomes us to the door of God’s household of faith. The...
