Did the heading get you?

It’s not really mine or anyone in my households birthday week! You may be wondering what a birthday week even is? At one point that was me.

I remember the first year that Kelsey and I were in a relationship she introduced me to this concept… or reality that it would become in our household. You may be wondering how a birthday week actually plays out?

Basically on February 17th of 2007 I started receiving gifts for each day leading up to my birthday on February 23rd. It was incredible! And here’s where I’m going and my point to sharing all this… I didn’t deserve it… at all!

You see… this week in our “Jesus Strong” series we are taking a look at the book of Ephesians where the Apostle Paul reminded the church in Ephesus (and us now!) of all the gifts that we receive from Jesus that we don’t deserve.

We will take a look at this over used and often misunderstood word called GRACE which simply just means to receive something that we do not deserve and how it is meant to form us into God’s masterpieces showing the world how great He is!

If you wanna be done reading stop here… but if you want something else to chew on to prepare for this Sunday go ahead and read this quote below  by Dietrich Bonhoeffer about Grace that is cheap. Our danger is that we can be tempted to settle into cheap grace vs. the grace that we don’t deserve that cost Jesus his life.