Hope Presbyterian Church In Winston-salem Sermons

Series: Responding to Jesus the KingScripture: Acts 17:16-34 “There is more in you of good than you know.” —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit “I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” —Anne Lamott “You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms. The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentf