I often wonder what goes through people’s minds when they hear certain words which we use in church.  Words like “incarnation,” “redemption,” and “grace.” I have a hunch that a lot of people confuse incarnation with reincarnation, which is something totally different; and redemption is something one used to do with “green stamps.” As for “grace,” well, that is, indeed, a strange word.  Some years ago a minister by the name of R.  Lofton Hudson wrote of an experience he had during a conversation with a friend who attended church only occasionally, and who was chatting rather casually about how little he knew about religion.  Dr.  Hudson asked him, “Tell me, what do you think of when I say the word grace’?” The friend’s immediate reply was, “Why, Grace is a blue-eyed blonde!” That gave the m…