Location and Reading for May 22

We'll meet Tuesday, May 22, 10-11:30 a.m. at Bible Way Baptist Church (2607 Exeter, Dallas, 75216, 214-375-1241)

David has said it would be helpful for us to read Chapters 4 and 11-13 for our study next week.

Did you know the books are always available online?: http://www.livingbygrace.org/books.htm

April 24 Session Recording

Below are links to download the audio from our April 24 time together with David Kuykendall. You liley also recieved an email from YouSendIt.com with this same link.

If you missed or want to review, remember to download them this week. They become unavailable online after 7 days.

If you have trouble or prefer it on an audio CD, let me know.

First part: http://www.yousendit.com/download/UW15WmdvQTY5eFUwTVE9PQ
Seond part: http://www.yousendit.com/download/UW15WmdzR3MyWGMwTVE9PQ

Persuasion Not from God

From David's email devotional this week:

In Galatians 4:10-11 Paul writes:

You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.

Paul writes in Galatians 5:6:

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

Referring to all of the false teaching the Galatians had received Paul writes in Galatians 5:8:

This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

Some of us confess that even though we have taught others to be saved by grace through faith we have also encouraged them to walk with God by observing certain requirements. For example, we have suggested that believers pray so many minutes and read so many chapters of the Bible each day. We have even encouraged them to keep the commands of the Bible without any reference to the leadership and empowering of the Holy Spirit. We persuaded them to walk in the flesh. Our persuasion did not come from God (Galatians 5:8).

Many of us who have persuaded others to accept legalistic approaches to their Christian lives have repented of our error. Now, we teach and encourage believers to walk in the Spirit by living out their oneness with Christ. The Holy Spirit guides and enables believers to walk with God—even in prayer and Bible reading.

Grace-Living is the HD-Life!

"[At least a quarter of] the people who think they are watching high definition television (HDTV), aren’t! This is according to a recent study by Leichtman Research Group.

"That means that people are inviting their buddies over for the big game and saying, “Check out my picture. Isn’t HDTV great?” Husbands are trying to convince their wives that all the extra money was well spent, and she doesn’t see it (for good reason). The problem is that the system is not properly set up.

"I wonder how many [Christians] never use the capacity of a high definition life God intended them to have, because they are not cooperating with the Holy Spirit. The relationship is not properly set up. " - by Steve Canter, from the NAMB Church Planting Group’s enewsletter, April 20, 2007

That was me...thinking I was living "the abundant life" but not able to figure out why things didn't work much differently for me than for non-Christians.

Actual HDTV story is at http://www.about-electronics.eu/2007/03/01/us-consumers-confused-over-hdtv-technology

"Living By Grace" Devotionals

You can subscribe to David's weekly "Living By Grace" email devotional at: http://livingbygrace.org/register.htm

They are usually short...and always substantial!

You can read all the old ones at: http://livingbygrace.org/devotional.htm