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Brother Abedi and his family in an African refugee camp, from where they were helped to escape to South America to start a new life. |
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October / December 2005
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Brother Abedi and his family in an African refugee camp, from where they were helped to escape to South America to start a new life. |
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A vital power in the life of a disciple of Jesus Christ is grace. Grace means both a knowledge of all God’s love, forgiveness and caring for us that is ours in the Lord Jesus and the power that the knowledge and experience of grace gives to our living for him. The Greek word for grace is charis, meaning simply the favour of God, granted freely and undeservedly to those who believe in His son. Charis is also translated as gracious and graciously to describe the words and actions of God and Jesus. In the synagogue at Nazareth, as Jesus spoke of his fulfilment of the words of Isaiah 61 about God’s anointed one preaching good tidings to the poor, healing the broken-hearted, freeing captives, and proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favour, his hearers marvelled at the “gracious” words which he spoke (Luke 4). (until he spoke about God’s favour to the Gentiles) In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word, chen, is translated as favour and chenan is a verb meaning to be gracious. Thus, Noah “found grace in the eyes of the LORD” (Gen. 6:8). In Job 33...Read more...
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