Good thoughts Mike. Thanks.

Great reminder, Thanks for posting it.

I needed that reminder especially for Mr. Woods.

Thanks for that, Mike. It is so easy to cast anger towards others and forget the Grace in which God bestows over us even as we often fail him. Perfect timing for this reminder as we are headstrong into the Holiday Season.

Amen.

Wise words, Mike. Keep ‘em coming.

Great stuff man. This could be a message series

Grace as well as mercy are dispensed by God at his discression and if we hoard those most beautiful benefits of being christians that we clearly prove our heart is not like his. A clenched fist has no room to recieve a further blessing.

Hi my names Carol and I am a grace horder. Seriously though I have found that I can slip into hording grace and distributing judgement. We are all sinners. We all need a savior.

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Mike,

A friend of mine told me about the foul oders of hoarding grace. Love your comments. I’m a grace freak who agrees that grace hoarders stink… I’m sniffing my own pits right now and I think I better start giving grace away!!

You can read my blog at http://gracefreakdan.wordpress.com

I’m going to keep up with your posts.

Thanks,

Grace Freak Dan

It’s interesting to notice something else about the Hoarders on A&E… they come to a place, very quickly, where they don’t… cannot… enjoy anything they have, let alone share it. What’s the point of God’s grace if it doesn’t free you and empower you? What do we have to give (mercy, forgiveness, etc..) if not empowered by the Father to do so? We have to choose to give it away, but even the choice and the strength to do so, comes from His empowering grace!!!!

That’s an awesome comment Matthew. Thanks!

I was convinced by grace hoarders that God’s grace was not enough for me…so I spend almost my entire adult life angry at God and Christians. 5 years ago, at the age of 43, I experienced God’s grace and realized how truly immeasurable it is! I’m a high school youth group leader now and spend most of my time reaching out to teens who think God can’t possibly love them, letting them know that his love and grace is for everyone.
BTW…came across POTSC after posting a comment on a page because I was so disgusted about the book-banning thing. I ended up removing my comment because it was so un-gracious toward the protester…but all of that ended up helping me find this site and I’m sharing it with my youth group.
Is there any way to download some of the videos you have posted on youtube??? I want to show them to my teens.

@david we should have them available pretty soon for download.

@matthew great thought

@dan love the blog and especially the title!

on this topic i know so often i have to remind myself to let it out and let it flow…ultimately what i think im holding in is not so much grace but my judgment, unforgiveness, bitterness, etc…and that stuff causing me to “stink”…

Oh mercy that show is unreal! Good analogy too!

So many Christ followers are consumers, hoarders, “fat” Christians. I pray I don’t hold on to anything that could benefit someone else! Oh Jesus, forgive me for my own hoarding!

Mike,
Kind of a “chicken or the egg” thought I’ve had for some time now in my own head. I think I struggle with accepting grace because I have a hard time extending it to others. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Probably both. I judge myself harshly at times I think because that’s what I’m thinking about others. Anyway. Thanks for this reminder. It should be a consistent cyclical flow. So, I think it starts with me better grasping God’s grace for me, but I think I’ll also start truly extending it to others and then hopefully I’ll be able to extend it to myself and accept it from others as well.

Mike,

Thanks for the good word about my blog. I’m pretty new to the whole thing but loving it.

Thought I’d mention that Jonah is a great example of a grace hating racist that God used inspite of himself. Even grace haters and grace hoarders get grace.

turning people toward grace,

Dan

I’m blown away by this story and our opportunity to be the people of a second chance to a desperate recipient.

http://tinyurl.com/y9klspq

amazing story to me. opportunities abound.

Matthew, thank you. I think you just hit the nail right on the head.

I’ve become a grace hoarder. I thought that would NEVER happen. And you are right. I’m miserable just now. I can’t enjoy anything. Not even Christmas because it’s tainted with resentment about who I can’t spend it with.

I really need to shower some grace on my Dad. Gulp.

@laura anne i think showing grace to our family memebers is often one of the hardest and most complicated situations. thots are with you.

@andy definitely a great opportunity for all of us to be about being a force of a good vs. adding to the pain/gossip/hurt to this family.

And the real rub is that when you dedicate yourself to being a gracious person, you are suddenly sensitized to all sorts of people you feel don’t “deserve” it. And then–BOOM–it hits you again that you don’t deserve it either.

GA – Grace Anonymous
12 steps to recovering from a self-centered, entltled and Christ-less version of Christianity!