by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: Scott Rainey In March 1972, my family moved from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Merriam, Kansas. I had just turned 1 year old. My parents had had a rocky start in their marriage. For my mother, a new Christian, and my father, still running from God, our move to...
by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: Shanti Thomas Almost three decades ago, I had not understood God’s grace the way I recognize its power on my life now. The pursuing, transforming, enduring, yet mysterious and hovering presence of this unmerited favor of God is both capturing and captivating....
by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: T. Scott Daniels Believers in the Wesleyan tradition would find prevenient grace (the gracious and loving presence of God’s Spirit that universally goes before or in front of all people, drawing all people not only to God but to God’s purposes) to be the...
by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: Marco Velasco God’s grace, and only this grace, can offer salvation to humanity. “So God created mankind in his own image…male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Humankind disobeyed and corrupted their original relationship with God. In...
by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: Svetlana Khobnya Is “Prevenient Grace” Biblical? The task of establishing the idea of “prevenient grace” from a New Testament perspective may be challenging because the term itself does not appear in the New Testament or in the whole Bible for that matter. The...
by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: Tim Green Interwoven throughout the fabric of the Old Testament is the life-giving and hope-filled confession of faith: “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love” (Psalm 145:8, ESV). From narratives (Exodus 34:6-7;...
by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: Geordan Hammond Prevenient grace has a foundational place in John Wesley’s theology. Why is this so? Because salvation is central to the Christian faith. Wesley stated, “salvation begins with what is usually termed (and very properly) ‘preventing...
by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: T. A. Noble The term “prevenient grace” is not in the Bible. Indeed, this whole way of speaking of different kinds of “graces”—“prevenient grace,” “saving grace,” “sanctifying grace”—is not the way the biblical writers speak of grace. Where then did this...
by APRC Admin | May 29, 2024
Author: David Busic There is a difference between providential grace and prevenient grace. Providence is how God provides for the sustenance and provision of his creation.1 God “sees to” (Gen. 22:8, 14) what is needed to sustain the world and to provide for...
by APRC Admin | May 28, 2024
This workshop seeks to equip disciple-makers to listen and learn about their disciples as they follow JC. Using personal and leadership coaching tools, this workshop will discuss the role of asking good questions to foster self-awareness and G-awareness in our...
by APRC Admin | Feb 10, 2022
From the beginning, Nazarene Missions International (NMI) has been praying for the work of the global church. As a global denomination that ministers in 164 world areas, we strive to be connected and lift each other up in prayer. This desire is not unique to the...
by APRC Admin | Jan 20, 2022
Everybody, especially the kids, loves to receive gifts on different occasions. God, in His loving kindness and perfect love, offers you a gift that we would like you to discover as you go through this resource material called “THE GIFT” — the grace that is...
