2013-11-23T06:00:06-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/grace/ http://faithgateway.com/beauty-of-new-belief/ 2013-11-23T06:00:06-05:00 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego must have been in disbelief when they heard about the golden image on the plain of Dura. I can just hear them saying to one another, “I thought losing our homes, being kidnapped from our families, and forced into the king’s service was bad enough, and now we’re threatened with death […] http://faithgateway.com/thankful-thursday-take-time-to-thank-god/ 2013-11-21T06:00:03-05:00 Throughout the month of November, Devotionals Daily will be celebrating Thankful Thursday! Join us every Thursday as we meditate on all of God’s rich blessings in our lives and spend time expressing thankfulness to Him. Prepare your own personal Thankful List and plan to share it with friends and family on Thanksgiving Day! My soul glorifies the Lord and my […] http://faithgateway.com/robe-of-righteousness/ 2013-11-13T06:00:04-05:00 You were all clothed with Christ. — Galatians 3:27 We eat our share of forbidden fruit. We say what we shouldn’t say. Go where we shouldn’t go. Pluck fruit from trees we shouldn’t touch. And when we do, the door opens, and the shame tumbles in. And we hide. We sew fig leaves… We cover ourselves […] http://faithgateway.com/he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not/ 2013-11-04T06:00:05-05:00 As a kid I really enjoyed school. My favorite part of the day was recess, of course. I attended Park Avenue Christian school, and every afternoon at one thirty our teachers led us across the road to the playground so we could let our energy out. Recess wasn’t the most educational part of the day, but it’s often […] http://faithgateway.com/grace-given-give-grace/ 2013-10-19T06:00:03-05:00 On a November evening in 2004, Victoria Ruvolo, a forty-four-year-old New Yorker, was driving to her home on Long Island. She’d just attended her niece’s recital and was ready for the couch, a warm fire, and relaxation. She doesn’t remember seeing the silver Nissan approach from the east. She remembers nothing of the eighteen- year-old […] http://faithgateway.com/god-v-you/ 2013-10-16T06:00:03-05:00 From the beginning of time, people have wrestled with the power of sin. It comes in many forms: pride, jealousy, immorality, and every other form of self-satisfaction. These all stem from the root of original sin, and just as Satan appealed to Eve’s appetite for the only thing God withheld, so Satan stands before us […] http://faithgateway.com/reason-for-my-hope/ 2013-10-15T06:00:03-05:00 God’s Plan: Redemption Eventually we all find ourselves staring into the face of truth. The Bible says that man’s soul is “full of troubles” (Psalm 88:3), filled with bitterness, grief, pain, and guilt. Adam and Eve paid a price for their disobedience. They were driven out of the Paradise of God, His very presence, into […] http://faithgateway.com/one-light-still-shines/ 2013-10-10T09:27:51-05:00 I’d like to tell you a love story. I could tell another story instead. I could recount a gruesome, premeditated murder. I could describe unspeakable acts. I could take you behind the scenes into the shielded private world of my Amish neighbors as they mourned the horrific losses of their daughters, granddaughters, nieces, sisters, and […] http://faithgateway.com/jesus-religion-gods-scandalous-grace/ 2013-10-07T08:10:54-05:00 Religion says, “God will love you IF…” / Jesus says, “God so loved…” When I had been following Jesus for almost a year, I was already seen as the token Christian guy on my college baseball team. I didn’t go to parties with the team and didn’t talk about girls the way they did. It was […] http://faithgateway.com/guts-grace-and-glory/ 2013-10-04T14:51:12-05:00 Editor’s Note: The most exciting time of the college and NFL football seasons are before us, as fans around the country are gearing up for opening weekends. Here at FaithGateway’s Devotionals Daily, we’re celebrating the kickoffs by offering three days of excerpts of the brand-new devotional book, Guts, Grace, and Glory: A Football Devotional by Dr. […]