Given Grace: Renewing our Hearts

Join Pastor Duane Brooks as he dives into the powerful theme of grace, exploring its transformative role in our lives. Discover how grace can renew our hearts and bring us hope and restoration. Listen to an uplifting message that will fill you with gratitude and inspire you to live each day trusting in God's wise guidance. Message based on 1 Corinthians 4:13-18. #GivenGrace #Renewal #Gratitude Quotes: What is Christianity’s unique contribution among world religions? C. S. Lewis responded, “Oh, that’s easy. It’s grace.” Duane Brooks: Grace reaches more and more people, resulting in greater gratitude, giving God even greater glory. Duane Brooks: We do not lose heart, because God’s inexhaustible grace is filling us with gratitude and transforming us into glory. Dallas Willard: Grace is God doing for us what we could never do for ourselves. Duane Brooks: We live between two resurrections. Christianity is the only religion whose Savior rises from the dead and raises his people from the dead also. Paul faced death all the time. He was not just being dramatic! Duane Brooks: When we die we cannot make ourselves live again. But Paul saw God’s grace energized by the power that raised Jesus from the dead. Duane Brooks: God not only raises the dead, but he is really good at it. Karl Barth: Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice an echo. Gratitude follows grace like thunder lightning. Tim Keller: It’s one thing to be grateful. It’s another to give thanks. Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do. W. H. Auden: I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance. Lina Sandell: Day by day and with each passing moment, strength I find to meet my trials here. Trusting in my father’s wise bestowment, I’ve no cause for worry or for fear. He whose heart is kind beyond all measure, gives unto each day what he deems best. Lovingly, it’s part of pain and pleasure, mingling toil with peace and rest. Ann LaMotte: Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own. Jonathan Edwards: Grace is but glory begun. Glory is grace perfected.The Westminster Confession: The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. William Barclay: Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into a glory. Lewis Smedes: Grace is the gift of feeling sure that our future, even our dying is going to turn out more splendidly than we dare imagine.To discover more messages of hope, go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on X and YouTube @tallowoodbcFollow us on Instagram @tallowood.baptistFollow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist