Delight in Grace

Our acceptance into God's eternal community equips us to love and bless our earthly community. We can love because we have been fully loved.The love we experience from being loved by God allows us to build bridges into the lives of others.

Our acceptance into God's eternal community equips us to love and bless our earthly community. We can love because we have been fully loved.

Do you understand your wife? It's going to take a lifetime, she's complicated.... God made her that way. It's not a bad thing it's a good thing and men are called to live with them with an understanding heart.

This is the eighth part of a sub-series entitled "12 Characteristics of People Who are Free." This is about men who are living in a marriage relationship. 1 Peter 3:7 says, "Likewise husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as to a weaker vessel since they are heirs with you of the grace of life." A man faithfully following his Savior with a tender heart is a gift to his family.

This is the eighth part of a sub-series entitled "12 Characteristics of People Who are Free." This is about men who are living in a marriage relationship. 1 Peter 3:7 says, "Likewise husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as to a weaker vessel since they are heirs with you of the grace of life." A man faithfully following Jesus with a tender heart is a gift to his family.

This is the eighth part of a sub-series entitled "12 Characteristics of People Who are Free." This is about men who are living in a marriage relationship. 1 Peter 3:7 says, "Likewise husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as to a weaker vessel since they are heirs with you of the grace of life."

Despite the message we are getting from Western culture, God designed women and men to function differently. Rich unpacks the beauty of that in 1 Peter 3:1-6 for a message entitled "Admirable Women."

Are you cultivating a heart ruled by trust in Jesus? Are you allowing God's grace to transform your attitudes and affections? Christ frees us from the chains of impossible beauty standards so we can live for the audience of One - Jesus.

A stained glass window sparkles and shines when the sun is out and light is coming throug it. But in dark times that beauty cannot be seen unless there is light from the inside. Our culture places an impossible standard on women when it determines value by outward appearance. God's Word shows us to place importance where God does: on the imperishable beauty of the heart.

In dark times beauty is seen only when there is light inside. Our culture places value on a woman's outward appearance, but God's Word tells us that it is within a woman that makes her beautiful, and effective in a dark culture.