God wants us to know His grace. He wants us to learn about it and then experience it at work in our lives. In these devotionals, Pastor Bob Hoekstra explains that God's grace is much more than forgiveness. It is much more than new birth. It is much more than we have yet understood, comprehended or drawn upon. God's grace is much more than sufficient to give us abundant life and much more than what is necessary to radically change our lives.
Grace is God freely providing for us (as we trust in the person and work of His Son) all that we will ever need, all that we will ever yearn for, and all that He has commanded us to walk in and become. These are realities that we could never produce on our own, could never earn and never deserve. Grace offers what every human desperately needs, but what God alone could provide.
This grace is found in a person, the Lord Jesus. Thus, it is accessible only through an ongoing, humble, and dependent relationship with Him.
Through each devotional in this book, Pastor Bob points us to the One in whom this wonderful, all-sufficient grace is found.
Bob Hoekstra ( - 2012)
Bob's involvement with the Calvary Chapels began in 1971, when he and his wife Dini visited Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa on a Sunday evening. They were deeply touched by the life-giving teaching of the word of God, the simple worship "in Spirit and in truth", and the profound expressions of the love of the Lord among the saints. Upon returning to Dallas, they regularly obtained Pastor Chuck Smith's teaching tapes and eventually became daily listeners of the Word for Today on the radio.Since 1993, Bob had been teaching at Calvary Chapel and other church fellowships across the country and overseas (including, Seminars, Pastors' Conferences, Church Services, Leadership Conferences, Retreats, and Schools of Evangelism/Ministry). He has taught numerous classes at Calvary Chapel Bible College (both at its former location in Twin Peaks, CA and its current location in Murrieta Hot Springs, CA) as well as at the extension campuses of Costa Mesa, Vista, San Diego, El Cajon, and others. Bob's teaching generally highlights such subjects as Counseling God's Way ,Family God's Way ,Growing in the Grace of God ,The Church: How Jesus Builds It ,Contending for the Faith ,Promise Believers ,The Sufficiency of Christ and His Word ,The Psychologizing of the Faith , and related themes.
Pastor Bob Hoekstra is the founder and Director of Living in Christ Ministries (livinginchrist.org). He has been in ministry since 1967, including fourteen years in Dallas, TX and eleven years as Pastor of Calvary Chapel of Irvine, CA. He and his wife, Dini, were married in 1966, and have three adult children and eleven grandchildren. Bob graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1973 with the Master of Theology degree.
Bob's involvement with the Calvary Chapels began in 1971. Since 1993, Bob has been teaching at Calvary Chapel and other church fellowships across the country and overseas. The Living in Christ Radio Program is heard on several stations across the country.
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