Grace Biscuit: Trusting His Life Not My Flesh
We can stop worrying and feeling condemned over our flesh when we realize that God doesn't intend to "fix" it. God puts no hope in the flesh, neither should we!  My flesh is lazy, jealous, impatient, and prideful. But His life in me is loving, kind, humble, patient, and longsuffering. Why waste any more time feeling guilty or constantly trying to fix myself? It's exhausting. What I do now is fix my hope completely

Grace Biscuit: Guilt-free Living
When a baby is born, we're happy and rejoice! When my three children were born, I certainly cooed over them lovingly, thanking God for such precious life. I didn't look at them and say, "Hmm...I wonder what awful sinful past this baby had? If we belong to God, He isn't saying that either. Yet many of us, after being born into Christ, still kick ourselves and drag around a heap of guilt and sh

Grace Biscuit: Our Ability or His?
"If you wanna be blessed," the sweet little church lady told me, "you have to remember the ifs and thens of the bible." She loaded me up with preaching tapes on obedience, reminding me that if I did this, then God would surely do that. I was grateful.  I mean, who doesn't want to be blessed?  But in my naivete, I embraced old covenant teachings that kept me in bondage. I struggled for years to meet God's requirements in order to receive His promises. If everything depended on me, then I was breaking under the burden of it all.   What I didn't know is this: "For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so

Grace Biscuit: Touching Scars
Kirsten grew up in a Christian family and knew lots of doctrine; Jill did not. Kirsten judged others by performance and outward appearance. Jill came to the Lord from a painful past and emotional instability. Kirsten promoted spiritual disciplines and taught really good bible studies. Jill devoured the Scriptures, hungry to know God.  Kirsten continues to exercis

Grace Biscuits: Sin & the Gospel
Sin is so grievous, going to the very core of our being, our only real remedy for it is a completely NEW life in Jesus Christ. Maybe this is why grace is so often misunderstood.  People fear that grace is "soft on sin." But looking at sin realistically causes us to see how utterly wretched we are apart from Christ, so much that we finally give up trying to fix ourselves, relinquish our pride, and put the focus back on