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October 17, 2025The Reason for my Joy
Need a reason to smile? Pay careful attention to the joys of your everyday life and be transformed by your loving, gracious, wonderful, perfectly outrageous God.
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Bonnet and Crossbeak
Through this story of the rescue of two trapped whales, Chuck points out how eager we are to help in these situations, but how slow we are to set one another free from our own lists, inhibitions, restrictions, and expectations.
Avoiding the Trap of Comparing
Allowing grace to flow freely means we let others be. You look different? We let you look different. You don’t dress like others? That’s fine, dress like you want to. That’s what grace is all about. Here are some traps we can fall into if we’re not careful.
Cutting Each Other Some Slack
Comparison can be lethal. What others drive, or wear, or how others look is no one’s business but theirs. Living in harmony means letting others be—and cutting each other some slack.
Missing the Obvious
It’s so easy to focus on the non-essentials. We can become so preoccupied with the details we completely miss the big picture. Relationships become fractured when we only focus on the small stuff.
Conviction, Character, and Waves
People who live with conviction no longer react to life, or float along taking life as it comes. These people initiate action because they are motivated by their beliefs.
Extending Grace to Let Others Be
Pastor Chuck Swindoll wraps up this series on grace by concluding that, while God loves unity, he doesn’t demand uniformity. Understand how you can extend grace to others even amid differences.
Putting Grace into Action
Listen to Paul’s exhortations in Romans 14 to the “strong” and “weak” brothers and sisters in the church. Pastor Chuck Swindoll encourages believers to focus on Christ, live in freedom, and love others.
Liberty on a Tightrope
Liberty in Christ must be handled with care, even as it is enjoyed. Tune in to hear Pastor Chuck Swindoll discuss a believer’s freedom and the principles to use it well.
Putting Grace into Action
Because of the weak believer’s human tendency to judge those who don’t embrace his or her customs and convictions and also because of the strong believer’s decision to discount judgments passed by those who find fault in his or her expressions of freedom, conflict emerges and persists. The solution? Put grace into action.
