Chapter Three: You Lack One Thing Up to this point in our book, author Richard Stearns has driven home the message that, “We need to be where God wants us to be.”[1] I’ve echoed that sentiment as well, urging each of us to pray that God would “use us where…
Chapter Two: A Coward for God “Are you willing to be open to God’s will for your life?”[1] That’s the question that Richard Stearns wrestled with in Chapter Two of The Hole in our Gospel. If you’re like me, you’re probably realizing in your reading that Mr. Stearns is manipulating…
Chapter One: a hole in the whole From the opening lines of chapter one, Richard Stearns sprints out of the starting blocks and races toward the essential message of his book: the Christian faith is concerned with this life as well as the after life. God did not save us…
Grace Church Summer Reading Program: The Hole in our Gospel—week 2 Thoughts from the Prologue I tried to get out of the Prologue and in to the 1st chapter of The Hole in our Gospel this week but I couldn’t do it. I was too gripped by Richard Stearns’ metaphor…
Introduction/Prologue Welcome to our 2013 Grace Church reading program! I anticipate a wonderful, life-enriching experience as we read The Hole in our Gospel together and earnestly invite God to impact us with His heart for hurting people around the world. Each week I will post a few succinct thoughts or…
