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Somebody asks you what grace means. You know the answer. And then you open your mouth… and nothing comes out.

Cochren & Co.'s "What Grace Can Do" sent me on a journey to define grace biblically — and I came away convinced the danger isn't just that we've lost our wonder over grace. It's that we may never have understood it in the first place.

In this episode:The definition worth memorizing: grace is the unmerited favor of GodWhy a "grace period" isn't really grace at all — the debt still comes dueFour crucial truths from J.I. Packer's Knowing God that have to be in place before grace makes sense: we're not as good as we think, God is perfectly just, we can't fix this ourselves, and God owes us nothingWhy your best day can't earn grace and your worst day can't cancel itEphesians 2 — good works are the fruit, not the rootPsalm 86 — a working pattern for relying on God's grace, responding to it, and appealing to it

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