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In light of the recent hoorah on the supposed tomb of Christ being discovered in Israel, it is good to consider how intimately the resurrection of Christ is connected to the outworking of God’s grace in our lives. We’ve arrived at the end of our “quoted review” of The Great Work of the Gospel: […]
Some consider it a great historical irony that Christendom calls the anniversary of the day that the son of God was unjustly executed on a roman cross Good Friday. John Ensor explains the goodness of Good Friday in our next quote from The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace:
Why […]
Continuing our “review in quotes” of The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace, John Ensor examines how an active, true work of the Gospel in a person’s soul will evidence itself beyond the borders of our inner being and suffuse the world with God’s glory. “What good is it, my […]
In today’s quote from The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace, John Ensor shows us that Christ’s substitutionary atonement for us is not a statement of our worth and value to God, but is a statement of the greatness of God’s mercy:
Someone may object, “God loves me. Christ died for […]
My wife pointed me to The Purple Cellar for an excerpt from Iain Duguid’s commentary on Numbers:
Why is it that we give in to sin and disobedience so often, even though we know what are doing is wrong? . . . The underlying dynamic that drives our sin is unbelief. . . . We have […]
Continuing our quoted review of The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace by John Ensor, here is a quote from the first chapter, “The Great Work Considered”:
In searching out the grace of God according to the Bible, it does not take long to be surprised. The apostle Paul said, “For […]
I am currently reading an excellent book by John Ensor called The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace. This is an excellent work on how the transforming work of the Gospel is experienced and how we are to comprehend and apprehend God’s grace.
In celebration of passover week, I will be […]
The best review of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life that I have found is here. The review is very fair and even handed, with many salient and Gospel-centered points of criticism. Challies also has a nice collection of chapter by chapter overviews of the book.
John Piper has a new release called God Is the Gospel.
Here’s the blurb:
“Gospel” means good news—but what makes the good news good? What is the goal of the gospel, without which it is no longer good? It is that Christ’s death brings sinners to God! Were it to bring us anywhere else we would be […]
C.J. Mahaney (my former senior pastor) releases his newest book this month, entitled Humility: True Greatness. My “must buy” list gets one entry deeper.
A blurb:
Be Transformed by Christ’s Example “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” - 1 Peter 5:5 A battle rages within every one of us every day. It’s […]
Sam Storms has released a new book entitled Convergence: Spiritual Journeys of a Charismatic Calvinist. Being a charismatic calvinist myself, and also sharing some roots with Mr. Storms (we both attended Believers Chapel in Dallas, TX, albeit in different decades), I’m going to be putting my order in soon.
From the blurbs:
Can anything be done […]
Here’s an interesting little article about putting books and computers in their proper places. I would much rather have my children fall in love with reading Lord of the Rings as a family on our big “comfy couch” than to have them obsess with the Lord of the Rings video game…
Computers generate a lot […]