Tag Archives: grace

God’s Love Is As the Air We Breathe

Posted on February 21, 2020 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila While I was researching, pondering, and crafting my “grace versus works” essay, a scrap of advice I read on some online relationship recovery forum directed to a woman experiencing an uncustomary glitch in her relationship with her … Continue reading →

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Though Fragile in Years and Status, She Said Yes: a Meditation on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and “Everybeliever”

Posted on December 17, 2019 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila In the fullness of time, though fragile in years and status I understood the angel’s invitation and agreed to birth You among us… The devotional from which the excerpt, above, is drawn, linked here and reprinted in … Continue reading →

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On Who Fills the Void/the Rainbow Maker

Posted on October 24, 2019 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. (Proverbs 27:20, ESV) I was thinking about a conversation in the movie based on the book Girl with a Pearl Earring about the life … Continue reading →

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On God’s Equal Parts Judgement and Love in This “End Times” Age

Posted on September 4, 2018 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing (Matthew … Continue reading →

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Merely Well Behaved—or Beloved and Gifted? (On Joseph of Genesis)

Posted on November 23, 2014 by pbn

Phyllis Nissila MERELY WELL BEHAVED? I have heard yet another preacher expound on the superior character of Joseph of Old Testament fame who was betrayed by his brothers, unjustly accused by his master’s wife, imprisoned and then forgotten by two … Continue reading →

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On Law, Grace, and the Joy of the Race

Posted on May 19, 2014 by pbn

Phyllis Nissila GOING PAST THE GOLD When I think about talented runners I think about two people: 1924 Olympic Gold Medalist Eric Liddell, the inspiration for the Chariots of Fire story and film [1], and let’s call him “Charlie,” a … Continue reading →

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