2013-09-17T12:35:51-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/gift+of+god/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/where-were-you-on-september-11-6958 2013-09-17T12:35:51-05:00 To be ready for eternity, to know you're going to heaven when you die, means to know that you have had every sin of your life - the sin that would keep any of us out of heaven - it has been erased from God's Book forever. Only one person can do that; the man who paid the penalty for it, Jesus, when He died on the cross. http://litmin.org/store/products.php?catid=3&do=list 2010-08-23T13:44:31-05:00 Highly useful presentations of the gospel in tract formats with unusual approaches that work well in everyday life. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%201:6&version=KJV 2009-09-11T12:02:11-05:00 Christians are to "stir up"--to fan the flame of--the gifts that God has given them. We take the blessings that God entrusts to us, and do our best to make the best possible use of them in His service. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians.2:8-9&version=NIV 2009-08-13T11:29:51-05:00 If we had the ability to save ourselves, we could boast that we don't need God. But the truth is that we're helpless before sin, and our own good works aren't enough to save us, so any such boasting is foolishness. It is the gift of God--grace--that saves us through faith. Ephesians 2:8-9 (New International Version) 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.