The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
BRENNAN MANNINGWe must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
BRENNAN MANNINGI am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
BRENNAN MANNINGOn the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
BRENNAN MANNINGTo lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
BRENNAN MANNINGWe are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
BRENNAN MANNINGBe daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
BRENNAN MANNINGRuthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
BRENNAN MANNINGIn Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
BRENNAN MANNINGOur hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
BRENNAN MANNINGWe even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
BRENNAN MANNINGWhen we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
BRENNAN MANNINGThat which is denied cannot be healed.
BRENNAN MANNINGWhen a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
BRENNAN MANNINGTo live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.
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