Article March 16, 2009 Issue

God's SAVING GRACE

THE GRACE THAT'S "NOT WITHOUT EFFECT" IN OUR LIVES

BY KEVIN G. GRAUNKE

The closing on the purchase of our new house wasn't going well. Serious and unexpected obstacles loomed, issues that threatened to derail the whole process more than once. And to make matters worse, we didn't feel we could trust the seller's broker.

What my wife and I didn't know was that we were about to learn an important lesson in grace—God's unconditional, saving love for everyone, everywhere.

Grace is an essential theme in Christian theology. The Apostle Paul wrote extensively about it. His correspondence often included greetings and blessings of grace. And elsewhere in the New Testament, the book of Hebrews states, "It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace" (13:9, New International Version).

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