Nor is it just a book to inform, as it regularly invites us to pause and respond to suggestions on how we can put into practice what we've been learning. They are vitally instructive, but they do not themselves give you the power you need to obey the instruction. His embrace of you is the point of your life… He wants you to know a love that is yours even when you feel undeserving or numb. Ortlund (PhD, Wheaton College) is the executive vice president of Bible publishing and Bible publisher at Crossway. Helps me think through my desire to take care of my sin but how Jesus already did it, as well as the fact that I just can’t.

They met two rebels Darek and Elliot who tell them how the Styxs are mass killing the Deep’s residents for unknowing reasons.to readers seeking a less detailed presentation, although the full-size book is accessible to anyone willing to read more thoughtfully. Through the downpour they seemed to fade into the washed-out grey of the sky itself, so that it was difficult to tell where the one started and the other finished. You think about all the things you “should” be doing, and, yes our habits in the Word and in prayer play a part, but a big part of our maturity is knowing and loving Christ. The apostle Paul’s explanation in 2 Corinthians 4:4 is my favorite, hands down: “the gospel of the glory of Christ. While all these strategies are good things, when we have this mindset we’re missing the most important element.

Ortlund navigates angst without froth, sanctification without legalism, justification without arrogance, pain without a quick-fix, and the need for the common elements without patchwork procedures.There are larger and more in-depth works on the subject of sanctification, but Ortlund's Deeper: Real Change for Sinners lays the ground work that every Christian should know, believe, and live out. Roderick followed Tunnels with further books in the series, Deeper, Freefall, Closer, Spiral and, finally, Terminal in 2013. Biblical meditation offers something better: an opportunity to be transformed by God's voice of truth. The Gospel Coalition helps people know God's Word with their mind, love God fully with their heart, and engage the world with grace and truth. Understanding this doctrine helps us make sense of Paul’s answer to the question in Romans 6, “Why not continue in sin”?