Grace is only truly valued by losers .....

... even one's 'winning" life is a loser, at its end .....


... the Shepherd King goes after the loser 
and celebrates the lost in Heaven.


... allow the party to begin, right now, over Him.


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"When the lord of the vineyard finally laces into the bellyachers - 
when he finally gives them, in a rhetorical question,
the precise reason why judgment falls, not on the unacceptable,
but only on those who will not accept acceptance -


he says :
"Is your eye evil because I am good ?"
It is the evil eye, you see - 
the ophthalmos poneros,
the eye that loves the darkness of its book-keeper's black ink,
the eye that cannot stand the red ink of UNsuccess,
as it appears in the purple light of Grace -
that is condemned here." 


"Kingdom, Grace, Judgement" R. Capon 


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Our weapons are spiritual, 
not the treacherous and deceitful expressions of this world. 
God's way of fighting is unique, He overcomes by being overcome. 
Christ conquered by being crucified. 
Love wins by surrendering, yielding. 
Your focus to win your battle must be forsaking the world's way of warfare. 
Holy love is your greatest weapon, for it brings you to Christ.
-Brian Simmons (facebook)


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