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Follow Pastor Mike and the other Time of Grace blog writers as they cover a wide variety of topics. Though each writer’s unique style and perspective give each post a different flavor, all of their writing will help you reflect more deeply on the grace of God in your life and how you can live your life to serve him.
Let go of regret
In her book 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, Amy Morin lists how someone can get stuck in their past: You wish you…
Grace is enough
In the Old Testament, God brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt where they had been enslaved for over 400…
Doctrine happens in the kitchen
A friend recently told me that he went to a personal trainer with three goals: to increase strength, to improve balance, and to lose…
Jesus is worth it!
“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God” (Acts 16:25). That’s nice, isn’t it? A neat little story about a…
How could a good God allow so much suffering?
The problem of evil and suffering is the most challenging indictment against the Christian faith. The question is straightforward: How could a good God…
Telling the future
My husband and I were walking in downtown Madison, WI, and passed a man who held a cardboard sign that read, “Tarot Readings.” I…
Grace AND peace!
Christians love the words grace and peace. Those two words are laced through the Bible, peppered into prayers, and bound up in the benediction…
Not-so-fast food for the soul
I eat too fast. This has been a lifelong struggle, and I’m not sure when it started. But when I’m out at a restaurant…
Zoom in for gratitude
A French artist named Lucas Vaskange creates a specific style of digital art known as infinite zoom. Each image he creates has another image…
Your pain has a purpose
I recently read The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis, and it shattered some of my old ways of thinking about life’s troubles….
Invisible poison—you need the cure
I had one of the worst days of my life recently when I took my baby in for his one-year-old checkup and found out…
You’re not alone in life’s storms
In my young adult years, unshakable faith came easy. But recently—maybe because of an awareness of so many seemingly impossible situations or maybe because…