Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The best news in town!

Do you know what the word "gospel" means? Liz Curtis Higgs helps us out today at A Holy Experience.

Gospel comes from Old English: gōd means “good,” and spell means “to find out by study; to come to understand,” as in “Spell it out for me.”

The gospel, then, is how we understand goodness.

God made a way for sinners to be reconciled with Him. Because His sinless Son died in our place, our sin debt is paid in full. Because His Son rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, we can be sure that we will too.

Not only is this the best news in town, it’s also a gift from God. Freely given, freely received. God has thrown open the windows of heaven for us and unfurled his banner of love.

Over the years the word righteous has gotten a bad rap, maybe because we’ve confused it with being self-righteous. Full of ourselves, rather than full of God.

Righteousness is what happens when “God makes us right in his sight” (NLT). It’s entirely his effort, not ours, so all the credit goes to him.

Faith is the essence of life, a sustaining force—like air, like food, like water, like love.

Our calling is to live out the gospel—goodness understood—with humility and gratitude, pointing to the One who makes every good thing possible.

One of Ann Voskamp's kids sprained an ankle this week while serving at Mission of Hope Haiti; thus the guest post today by Ms. Higgs.

Read more here: http://www.aholyexperience.com/2013/02/the-big-reveal-what-faith-is-from-first-to-last/

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