“If we say “I believe in Jesus” but it doesn't effect[sic] the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus after all.”—Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God, page 126
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That is the last quote from The Prodigal God. I hope you have learned a good bit about grace from the brief quotes I have been giving.
I finished the book back in September, but had been unable to get these sections that I had marked typed up until now. Reviewing them has been good; I re-learned some things that I thought I had already learned, but apparently hadn't.
The grace of God is more vast and deeper than we realize. What we have in Christ is far greater than we can begin to understand. We stand at the edge of the beach, seeing the ocean stretched before us and think we understand it. But we haven't even touched the water, let alone begun to plumb its depths...
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Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
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- Is knowledge bad?
- Nonsense, but funny
- Paperback Greek Reader
- Disinterested Piety
- SBL Day 4
- SBL Day 3
- A Test
- The Eden Narrative
- And the repercussions begin
- SBL Day 2
- SBL Day 1
- SBL days -1 and 0
- What is the church to do?
- Why did Christ come?
- Salvation from sin, or salvation from hell?
- Free from sin, not just sins
- Review of Campbell's Basics of Verbal Aspect
- Where is our strength?
- Fall is fading, winter is approaching
- The provision is already there
- Apples, again!
- It's already here
- Eisenbrauns monthly sale for November
- The danger of riches (long)
- Say it isn't so!
- Christianity and war
- The Yoke
- Where's the fire?
- True Riches
- Apples, apples everywhere...
- Finally
- Lingamish is right
- Grace is dangerous
- News
- Transforming Love
- The cure
- AAR Day 3
- More elder brother activity
- AAR Day 2
- AAR day 1
- AAR Day 0
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1 comment:
Yep, I agree. I've been steadily learning of the grace of God, and all that is encompassed in it, for over a dozen years, and I still feel I'm only skimming the surface. I keep on finding it to be vaster and deeper and wider than I've ever imagined! Thanks again for posting these snippets of the book.
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