(Galatians 2:11-21)…One thing I admire about Paul is the boldness he had to tell it like it was. Peter, of all people, had fallen into a classic example of legalism, and in a way salvation by works. He was living like a Gentile, when other Jews weren’t around, but then stay away from the Gentiles when Jews were around. He was also trying to get the Gentiles to follow the Jewish customs. Paul got after Peter and accused him of being quite the hypocrite and at the same time confusing believers.

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(Matthew 1:1-17) What is normally pointed out in this passage is the strange fact that Matthew includes 4 women in the geanology of Christ. These 4 women weren’t the most prostegious women in the line either. No one knows for sure why they were included, except to perhaps point out that God can use anyone to carry out his plan.

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Not only does the title of today’s post bring to mind the famous song, it also resonates with the grace God showed Noah, his family, and the animals taken with them. (Genesis 8:1-22) He used the flood to show the kind of “re-birth” that Jesus would later talk about happening through faith in Him. It truly is amazing to feel the promised, and never ending, grace of God. There is a renewal that comes from experiencing His grace. I have been blessed to experience His grace in my own life over the past week.

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