A Miracle Inside the Aurora Shooting: One Victim's Story

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At Columbine, I have seen this before. But not up close.  As a church pastor in Denver, I have worked as a chaplain alongside several police and fire departments. I was privileged to counsel parents just hours after the Littleton Columbine shootings. However, in this new tragedy at the Aurora Theater Dark Night shooting, one of the victims was a 22-year-old woman from my church, Petra Anderson (pronounced Pay-tra).

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A line from this post says, "prevenient grace: God working ahead of time for a particular event in the future." WOW! This story is just that.

The Grace of God Prevails!

The grace of God prevails!
His gracious disposition toward us thankfully does not depend even on our ability to comprehend it.
When we finally come to the end of ourselves, there it will be.
There He will be.
Just as He will be the next time we come to the end of ourselves, and the time after that, and the time after that.
~ Tullian Tchividjian

If I Ever Needed Grace

I heard this song and felt like someone really needed to hear Jimmy Needham’s message.