God's Mercy

Pastor Bill Bush · Jan 13, 2025

In Ephesians 2:1–10, Paul exposes the bankruptcy of 'goodyism' — the universal human instinct to earn God's approval through good deeds — and replaces it with grace. We are fully dead in sin and cannot earn life; but God, rich in mercy, makes us alive together with Christ. The proper response is not striving for approval but resting in the love already given, and from that rest, freely walking in the good works God prepared for us as His masterpiece.

Pastor Pat McCalla · Jul 16, 2019

Drawing on God's self-description in Exodus 34 and Jesus' parable of the unmerciful servant in Matthew 18, Pastor Pat McCalla argues that every human being carries a moral debt to God that can never be repaid — yet God's first impulse is love, grace, and forgiveness. Because that enormous debt has been cancelled through Christ, followers of Jesus are not merely encouraged but required to extend the same radical, ongoing forgiveness to those who have wronged them, releasing bitterness and entrusting justice to God.