#545: "What Grace Can Do” by Cochren & Co.

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Send us Fan Mail 📥 Grab the free Episode Guide for this episode at michellenezat.com/545download — one page to walk you through the Scripture and the Bible Interaction Tool Exercises from today's show. Already a subscriber? It's in your inbox. Somebody asks you what grace means. You know the answer. And then you open your mouth… and nothing comes out. Cochren & Co.'s "What Grace Can Do" sent me on a journey to define grace biblically — and I came away convinced the danger isn't just that we've lost our wonder over grace. It's that we may never have understood it in the first place. In this episode: • The definition worth memorizing: grace is the unmerited favor of God • Why a "grace period" isn't really grace at all — the debt still comes due • Four crucial truths from J.I. Packer's Knowing God that have to be in place before grace makes sense: we're not as good as we think, God is perfectly just, we can't fix this ourselves, and God owes us nothing • Why your best day can't earn grace and your worst day can't cancel it • Ephesians 2 — good works are the fruit, not the root • Psalm 86 — a working pattern for relying on God's grace, responding to it, and appealing to it 🎧 Li