https://clmbooks.org/tags/means-of-grace/Recent content in Means of Grace on Christian Living Ministries BooksHugo -- gohugo.ioen&copy; 2026 Christian Living MinistriesSun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/growing-a-godly-life-series/maintaining-the-life-of-faith/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/growing-a-godly-life-series/maintaining-the-life-of-faith/<em>Maintaining the Life of Faith</em> is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that focuses on perseverance, spiritual alertness, and continued faithfulness after conversion. The book maintains that the Christian life is not a one-time profession of belief but an ongoing walk of trust, obedience, repentance, and dependence on God’s sustaining grace. Ron Christian warns against spiritual drifting, neglecting the means of grace, disobedience, distraction, and relying on past spiritual experiences instead of daily fellowship with Christ. He contends that believers must remain watchful, keep their first love, stay open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and continue pressing forward even through weakness, suffering, temptation, and uncertainty. The book also addresses the relationship between assurance, free will, perseverance, and the danger of careless living, while affirming that God’s power is available to those who keep trusting Him. Its central message is that faith must be maintained through abiding in Christ, obeying God’s Word, yielding to the Holy Spirit, and persevering with hope until the end.https://clmbooks.org/growing-a-godly-life-series/practicing-the-means-of-grace/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/growing-a-godly-life-series/practicing-the-means-of-grace/<em>Practicing the Means of Grace</em> is Book 2 in the <em>Growing a Godly Life</em> devotional series by Ron Christian. The booklet maintains that becoming a Christian may happen through sincere faith and prayer, but growing into a mature believer requires continued participation in the “means of grace” God provides. Ron Christian presents the local church, corporate fellowship, biblical teaching, Scripture, prayer, communion, baptism, worship, hymns, and personal spiritual disciplines as vital channels through which believers are strengthened and shaped. The work contends that Christians are not meant to live isolated spiritual lives, but to grow in the family of God through regular worship, fellowship, reverence, shared devotion, and service. It also emphasizes the Bible as God’s blueprint for life and calls believers to hunger for Scripture, obey it carefully, and allow it to saturate the heart and mind. Through devotional reflections, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, the booklet proposes a practical path for deepening communion with God and maturing in the Christian faith.