Please visit Steve Mcvey

I have found many writers who have influenced my faith in a possitve way.

I enjoy reading Brian Mclaren, Myles Munroe, Philip Yancey, John Maxwell.

One person who is not as well known as these other gentlemen is Steve Mcvey and yet his writing has had a profound influence on my life. I have added a link to his blog.



Steve Mcvey

 His views are not always going to be exactly what you hear from most pulpits. He majors on grace!
Yet somehow I think that Jesus majored on grace. I think grace is what seperates followers of Jesus from every other faith in the world. And, sadly I think that many christians display very little grace towards people who are not like them and people from other faiths.

If I am not mistaken this was the cause of many conflicts between Jesus and the religious establishment of his day. In fact, you could say that this was the reason why they crucified him.


I remember being stuck by the fact of Gods' grace towards me when reading these words from Colossians 1

 ²¹ Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of^] your evil behavior. ²² But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation

To think that my emnity with God was always just in my mind. His attitude towards me was always LOVE and always GRACE, and because of this grace he calls me holy and without blemish, free from accusation.



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Wow, wow, wow. I live my life in self accusation. Satan is continually accusing me and reminding me of my faults and weaknesses and yet God is not. God is perfect - he could hold me accountable for so much and yet 2000 years before I was even born he had sorted out every failure and weakness of mine so that I could come into fellowship with him by Grace.

It is only when I accept this grace and live in it that I am able to ignore the accusations of my past failures and weaknesses. This gives me freedom to have victory over new temptations and to live a better life. To know God's grace allows us to Know God.

One day in a Christian bookstore I came across a book called Grace Walk. It was on special and I bought it. When I read it I was reminded time and again of the Grace that I had experienced when reading Colossians 1.

 Please make a visit to Steve Mcveys blog.
The more you do it the more you will be blessed and convinced of the grace of God.

As an example here is one of his posts.

God Is For You!

God is for me.” Can you make that statement with a deep sense of certainty? He is, you know. When things are going the way you want, God is for you. When life seems to be falling apart, God is for you. When the Philistines chased David down in Gath, he wrote, “This I know, that God is for me” (Psalm 56:9). What a time to make a declaration like that!

Many of us have found ourselves in a place similar to David’s situation at times. Life is closing in . . . the enemy seems to have us cornered and there appears to be no way out. Pleasant circumstances disappear before our eyes and the world turns dark.

At times like that, we may be tempted to cry out, “Why is God against me?” Not David. He assured himself with the truth, “God is for me.” He didn’t say, “This I feel, that God is for me.” There are many times in life that we don’t feel like God is for us. No, he said, “This I know, that God is for me.

Will you affirm this truth in your own life? God really is for you. Nothing can ever change His mind or heart toward you. If you are His child, His lovingkindness toward you will last forever. (Read Psalm 136 sometime!)

Circumstances may be suffocating you at times, but God is for you! Negative feelings may seem to be strangling you, but God is for you! Life may not make sense at a given moment, but God is for you! Trust Him. When you feel like you’re drowning in an ocean of problems, cling to your Heavenly Father. He will prove Himself strong in your life by assuring you of His love.

Your circumstances may or may not turn out like you want, but He will hold you in His loving and sovereign arms and gently whisper His love to you again and again. Sit in quietness for a moment and listen to his loving voice assure you of that fact until, like the Psalmist, you may say, “This is know, God is for me!”