Conversations at the Ranch with Dudley Hall

When a person sees the cross as the center of the Bible story, it is either the best news ever… or the worst. From Paul’s point of view, the cross of Jesus Christ is the crux of the matter, the climax of the story, and the only hope of eternal life.

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Dudley's Monthly Message for August 2022

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It is important that we get a proper view of holiness because God is holy. He is the most liberated person in the universe. He is the most fulfilled. He is the most fun. 
If he is holy, it must be a good thing. 

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There is no magic formula we can work to force God to send the revival we order, but there is a distinct pattern of how God has worked to bring life to dead situations. We can align with His pattern and trust Him to do what He longs to do through us.

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To repent is to bring our minds in line with the reality that Jesus now is the Lord over all things and that He is the full and final hope of Israel and the world.

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We know that the life of Christ being manifest in believers makes us either attractive to those who are thirsty for life or scary for those determined to eliminate God from their existence. We either emit an aroma of life or death. 

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Because the gospel as proclaimed by the New Testament apostles is the only power able to transform people, the purity and clarity of it is the most critical issue of our day. In Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he addresses the importance of the gospel of grace in initial salvation and in living as God’s people now and forever.

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It has always been true that the good news from God to mankind is offensive. It seems strange because, after all, it is good news. Typically we like good news. When the stock market goes up or the weather forecast is sunny and mild or the kid’s report card has “A’s”- we love it. Why then does the natural mind react to the news that God has acted in history to save us and that His mercy is behind it? 

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The inevitable fruit of grace
in a person’s life is graciousness toward others.

We are living in a time when graciousness is rare. Vitriol and contention are the more common modes of relating. Efforts to solve this growing cancer in our society don’t seem to be effective. It’s not that we can’t see the problem. It’s that we can’t see the deep root that is producing it. For instance, racism is not primarily about color of skin or societal structures that still show evidences of it. It cannot be solved by coming to the table of reason unless that reason is informed by grace. We could tear down all the systems and structures that we have put in place to make society work and replace them with new ones, but soon enough they would be exposed as faulty because selfish, fearful hearts made them.

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We are people of promise. The Law did its part. We honor it. Now we glorify His glorious grace.

According to the biblical narrative, people are designed to live in the blessing of the good and sovereign Creator. That blessing includes the consciousness of His presence, the abundance of His provision, the guarantee of His protection, and the privilege of working as His partners in the development of creation. When the first humans chose to yield to the seduction of the devil, the blessing was forfeited and a curse came on them as well as the creation they were assigned to manage. But the same God who graciously created all things was there to make promises that would reverse the curse and ultimately produce a people who exult not only in the unimaginable greatness of His power, but also the unsearchable beauty of His grace. 

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