Grace Is Greater by Kyle Idleman

Author:Kyle Idleman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Grace (Theology);REL012120;REL012000;REL070000
ISBN: 9781493406500
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2017-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

*If the condo had been on the first floor that never would have happened. Thank God for stairs.

†Or, for my readers over forty, “you kept a DVD.” Or, for my readers over fifty, “you kept a VHS tape.” Or, for my readers over sixty, “you kept a slide projector presentation.”

‡Like my wife telling me to release the remote control. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I’m physically incapable.

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More Prevailing Than Your Vengeance

If you’re in ministry, some people won’t like you. At all.

Who would’ve guessed you could get in trouble by talking incessantly about someone people were so desperate to get rid of that they nailed him to a cross?

It’s something they don’t tell you in seminary or include on church job descriptions, but it’s true. I get plenty of encouragement, and I’m thankful for that, but I’ve also received my fair share of hate mail. A number of years ago I received an especially cruel email. It was from someone out of state who listened to my sermons online. What he wrote crossed the line from harsh critique to just hateful. Honestly, it was so extreme I found it kind of entertaining. I thought my father, who had spent most of his life in ministry as well, might also get a laugh out of it and help me keep things in perspective, so I forwarded it to him.

About ten minutes later I received an email back from my dad. Actually, he forwarded me an email—it was the response he had just sent to the person who wrote the hateful email to me. My dad, who is one of the kindest and gentlest men you could ever meet, took it upon himself to send a strongly worded email to this man in defense of me. Though I had not asked him to, my dad had stood up for me.

As I read my dad’s email to this man I was a little embarrassed. As a grown man I didn’t necessarily want my dad coming to the playground to talk to one of the mean kids. But in hindsight, I should’ve expected that he would be quick to defend me and want to protect me. That’s what loving dads do.

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