Beginning Sunday, February 26, and each Wednesday

and Sunday that follows, a Lenten Bible Study will be

offered to further our study of God's Amazing Grace. The

Sunday 9am morning study will be repeated on

Wednesday evenings at 6pm. We will be studying people

who received God's grace as told in the scriptures despite

the sinful actions of the people. A book will be provided for

each participant.

The word grace sometimes refers to prayer, as when we

"say grace" before a meal. We may speak of an athlete or

dancer moving with grace. People who remain calm in difficult

circumstances are said to show grace under pressure. These uses of the

term grace suggest things that we do. In the biblical understanding of the

term, grace is about God. Grace is God's favor for sinners - favor that we,

as sinners, do not deserve. Sometimes the letters in the word grace have

been used as an acronym for this definition: God's Riches At Christ's

Expense. We do not deserve God's love and forgiveness or the glory of

eternal life in his presence. but these rich gifts were purchased for us

with the blood Christ shed on the cross. The gifts are ours because Jesus

paid the price for them. That is God's undeserved favor for sinners, his

amazing grace.