38K views · 2.8K reactions | My wife, Carol, and I would like to encourage you with this brief message today. | Pastor Jim Cymbala | Facebook

I want to talk to you about a word that I always struggled with growing up in and around the church. In fact, I’m still asking God to teach me what this word really means, in all its depth. I’m referring to the word “grace.” If I heard the word “love,” I could relate to it somewhat. It was the same with the word “mercy” and “God’s power," for example. But “grace” was difficult to grasp. And then, as I began to understand God’s grace, I realized that it's perhaps the deepest word in the Bible. An

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“A preacher in need of God, and a guy from the street in need of God... I knew who was really in need of prayer that day: it was Jim Cymbala. I lifted my hands and just said, 'God, please forgive me! What kind of cheap, two-bit preacher have I become? You sent somebody who’s searching for you, and I want to give him a few dollars and get rid of him. Please help me!’ And God, at that moment, baptized me with his love and with his grace. He saw how pitiful I was…” Listen to the rest of this story