Extrav­a­gant Grace

Why do Christians—even mature Christians—still sin so often? Why doesn’t God set us free? We seem to notice more sin in our lives all the time, and we won­der if our progress is a con­stant dis­ap­point­ment to God. Where is the joy and peace we read about in the Bible?

Bar­bara Duguid turns to the writ­ings of John New­ton to teach us God’s pur­pose for our fail­ure and guilt—and to help us adjust our expec­ta­tions of our­selves. Her empa­thetic, hon­est approach lifts our focus from our own per­for­mance back to the God who is big­ger than our failures—and who uses them for his glory. Redis­cover how God’s extrav­a­gant grace makes the gospel once again feel like the good news it truly is!

My guest on the program today will be Barbara Duguid - a coun­selor and min­istry assis­tant at Christ Pres­by­ter­ian Church (ARP) in Grove City, Penn­syl­va­nia, where she crafts the weekly liturgy. She is a pastor’s wife and the mother of six chil­dren, and she holds an advanced cer­tifi­cate in bib­li­cal coun­sel­ing from the Chris­t­ian Coun­sel­ing and Edu­ca­tional Foun­da­tion in Glen­side, Pennsylvania.