1. God’s goodness often shows up in unlikely places!

2. Where God’s grace is concerned, we tend to hear what we want to hear, rather than what God is saying.

3. God’s grace doesn’t always translate into a soft landing. It often translates into a hard journey.

4. Methuselah’s unrivaled longevity was an expression of God’s unrivaled grace!

5. The Great Flood wasn’t a cruel, knee-jerk reaction by a God with severe anger issues!

6. God is incredibly patient; but His love won’t permit the cancer of sin to go unchecked!

7. Grace is God’s comprehensive response to humanity’s greatest problem! It does more than address symptoms; it attacks causes.

8. Grace has a hard side. It attacks the sin that hinders God’s favor, wherever it’s found!

9. God doesn’t lay aside one of His attributes to express another!   Everything He does involves all of His attributes.

10. The greatest undeserved favor God could bestow on us is to attack the sin that threatens to destroy us!

11. Grace that doesn’t attack sin is a disgrace!

12. Grace isn’t always synonymous with comfort!

13. The same grace that makes us a friend of God makes us an enemy of the world.

14. Grace often requires we do hard things.

15. Some aspects of grace are so hard God handles them on our behalf!

16. Grace inevitably intensifies our struggle to believe we’ve received it!

17. Noah found grace - not an ark!

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