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On this Proper 6 in the church calendar, the Third Sunday after Pentecost, the church is once again drawn into the quiet but profound center of the gospel: life with God is not something achieved, but something given.

The readings for this Sunday hold together a consistent witness—God is the One who seeks, restores, and rejoices. In Jesus Christ, the heart of the Father is revealed not as distant or detached, but as active, faithful love that moves toward the world He has made.

In the Son, the fullness of the Father is made known. Christ does not simply point the way to God; He is the way, gathering humanity into His own communion with the Father. And by the Holy Spirit, this communion is not only declared, but made real in the present—opening eyes, forming faith, and drawing creation into the life of the Triune God.

As Paul writes in Romans 5:8 (RSV), “God shows his love for us in that while we were yet weak Christ died for us.”

That witness anchors the proclamation: before any return, before any awareness, before any response, the movement of God in Christ has already gone forth in love.

So the invitation of Proper 6 is not striving upward, but receiving what is already being given. The Father seeks, the Son embraces, and the Holy Spirit awakens us to the grace of belonging within the eternal life of the Trinity.

This is the good news proclaimed today: not humanity reaching God, but the Triune God bringing humanity into communion with Himself in Jesus Christ.

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Faith does not rest in our ability to accomplish what God has promised, but in God’s own faithfulness to bring every promise to completion.

This is the life into which we are drawn—the life of the Triune God. The Father is the One who speaks and sends, the source of every promise. The Son, Jesus Christ, is the fulfillment of all God has spoken, the definitive “Yes” of God in whom every promise finds its completion. And the Holy Spirit unites us to Christ, sustaining us in that communion of grace and preserving us in faith when our strength and clarity falter.

In this way, faith is not the burden of producing what God has declared, but the grace of trusting the One who is able to accomplish it. We are not the guarantors of God’s promises; we are those who are carried by them.

“fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.” - Romans 4:21 (RSV)

This is the truth of our life before God: we begin in grace, we are held in Christ, and we are sustained in the Spirit—within the undivided life of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

It is a truth that reminds us, even as we reflect on Malcolm’s witness, that faith is never self-grounded but always Christ-held.

#faithinchrist #gracealone #trinitariantheology #globalgraceseminary

Father’s Day Enrollment Special at Global Grace Seminary! 🙌

Last year for Mother’s Day (2025), we offered a special enrollment opportunity for women—and this year, we’re celebrating Father’s Day with an incredible offer for all men!

This Father’s Day, all men who complete their enrollment into a degree program by **June 30** will receive a scholarship equal to 25% off their tuition!

This is your chance to deepen your understanding of Trinitarian grace-based theology while receiving significant financial support.

✨ **Key details:**
- Who: All men enrolling in a degree program
- Deadline: June 30
- Offer: 25% tuition scholarship
- Where: Global Grace Seminary

Don’t wait—enroll today and let grace guide your journey!

#FathersDay #GlobalGraceSeminary #TheologyEducation #GraceBasedTheology #Scholarship #TrinitarianTheology #EnrollNow

The Trinity is not merely a doctrine to be understood, but the beautiful reality of the one God who has always existed in perfect communion of love—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Before creation and before time itself, the Father loved the Son in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, as God has eternally existed—Father, Son, and Spirit—one God in three Persons, united in perfect grace, joy, and love.

And the wonder of the gospel is this: through Jesus Christ, we are brought into the divine fellowship itself. The Son became flesh, lived, died, and rose again, that we might share in the very life and love of the Triune God.

As Jesus prayed:
that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us. — John 17:21 (RSV)

The Christian life is not merely about believing truths about God, but about being drawn by grace into the loving communion of the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, for God is love, and in His grace He has welcomed us into His eternal embrace.

#triunegod #trinitariantheology #perichorecticunion #globalgraceseminary

These words from Athanasius sum up the reality we are invited into: communion with the one God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—who draws us into His own life of grace and love.

#athanasiusofalexandria #trinitarianlife #globalgraceseminary

Associate Professor of Coaching

Dale is a certified Life Coach (2005) with a certificate in Mental Health coaching (2019). He has served as a Life Coach for the state of Pennsylvania’s Career Counseling Center helping those on welfare to find a more productive life. He has served the state of Florida helping adults with disabilities to establish their own business.

He holds a BS in Journalism from the School of Communications at Arkansas State University (1998). He has a Master of Arts in Theology from Global Grace Seminary (2022).

Dale has been a Bible teacher since 1970. He has preached in every major denominational church (including Catholic) from that time until now, where he serves as pastor of a rural Presbyterian Church in Stockton, MO.

Dale can be found on the web at:

Blog: practicalbibleteaching.com

Youtube: Practical Bible Teaching

Spotify: Practical Bible Teaching

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