Welcome to Hank’s Place —
I’m the Hank of Hank’s Place. 45 years in Christ Jesus. Hank’s Place is a place of GRACE. God’s Grace: His unmerited, undeserved FAVOR, BLESSINGS, where everything is BETTER as the writer of Hebrews says of the New Covenant.
It has taken me some 40 years to discover, believe, receive the truth that GOD really does love each of us without regard to our performance, without our having to measure up to some standard of perfection or maturity. Unconditional LOVE. 40 some years to believe John 3:16’s “For God so loved the world, that He gave” His very best, FOR US. 40 some years to begin receiving what God has to give, without regard to how Hank was doing as a Christian.
Yet all around me I see Christians struggling to find approval in God’s eyes, to do better, to be more obedient. They haven’t yet discovered Jesus as the Author and Finisher of their faith. I hope to spare you some decades of struggles by inviting you to Hank’s Place. Let’s have a home roasted coffee and enjoy one another and the blessings of grace found in the New Covenant.
Some history. Like all of us, there was a huge emptiness within me. If you had told me at the time that it was Jesus, I would not have listened. But in the fullness of time a friend (“Thanks Dave!”) began sharing the real Jesus, not religion.
I began searching, began praying to God. Nothing seemed different, UNTIL – one day I went forward in response to an altar call to confess Jesus as my Savior. Everything changed! Tears streamed down my face as found that God was real and God was love, and He loved me just the way I was. In an instant the weight of sin was gone, I was clean – and LOVED.
However, within minutes well-meaning but misguided Christians were telling me about all the rules I needed to keep ‘now that I was a Christian.’ “Do this, don’t do that” they said. From being loved unconditionally I went to conditional approval based on my obedience, my performance.
I had struggled in my youth having a father to whom I could never do things ‘right.’ Relating to my Heavenly Father through rule keeping changed the pure joy and love and friendship and innocence into a relationship of fear, and dread of getting things wrong and maybe being punished by God, to teach me a lesson. I was losing sight of the greatest lesson there is about God: His Son on Calvary’s cross, crucified for me!
You might be struggling right now. Well, you don’t need 40 years to start walking in the New Covenant. Come on over to Hank’s Place. A place – of grace. A place – of acceptance in the beloved. Where we have passed out of judgment into His marvelous light, where there are no shadows. Where relationship with God is ‘sonship’ because of the blood of Jesus. Where we love to talk about Jesus, our Awesome God.
At Hank’s Place, enjoy peace. Enjoy — joy. Come on — let go of trying to get things right. Come to Hank’s Place, and — COME ALIVE!
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