Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners (Union)

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This is a short book, not to give 9 steps to follow to achieve all your goals, but is a coming back to the fundamentals of our faith. For those who think little of meditating on the love of Christ, Ortlund draws attention to Ephesians 3:16–19, where Paul’s pastoral prayer is that the readers would “know the love of Christ which passes all understanding. Uważam że ten tom ostatecznie wypada nawet trochę ciekawiej ze względu na wątki wokół toczy się cala historia.

g., in repentance), Ortlund reminds us that it is a fruitful exercise throughout the Christian life for sanctification. I sometimes would have to stop and do something else because I could imagine the complete blackness and being 5 miles under ground. If you take your eyes off of Jesus Christ and direct your gaze to your own growth, you will prevent the very growth you desire” ( Deeper, p. Dane helps us understand that the gospel is more of a person to adore and know than theological propositions and categories to master.I also appreciated that Deeper includes a chapter on our union with Christ, a doctrine I don’t think is sufficiently understood or appreciated today. So according to this preface, I shouldn't even be reading this book but as a lowly lay person should have picked up the "more accessible" version. Christ was killed so that our own relative success or failure in killing sin is no part of the formula of our adoption into God's family. Winding along the road to Emmaus, Join two friends on the road as the joy of the first Easter dawns. One of the reasons I enjoy both Reeves (the editor of the series) and Ortlund (the author of this book) is that they make great use of the Puritans.

That angst in your soul for more is a part of the growing process―a gift of hunger and thirst that Jesus, the inexhaustible well, will fill. In his newest book, Deeper, pastor and author Dane Ortlund takes Christians into the deep structures of biblical teaching on how they grow in grace–most fundamentally, by enjoying all that is already theirs in Christ. The TUNNELS series in general is probably one of the most realistic and grim YA universes out there.

He serves as an editor for the Knowing the Bible series and the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series, and is the author of several books, including Gentle and Lowly and Edwards on the Christian Life. 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. The author answers in the book’s nine chapters by supporting the single premise that growth comes through fixing our gaze on Christ. In his newest book, Deeper, pastor and author Dane Ortlund takes Christians into the deep structures of biblical teaching on how they grow in grace—most fundamentally, by enjoying all that is already theirs in Christ. DEEPER continues the adventure from TUNNELS, where Will, a teenage boy, is drawn to a world built under our own, where people have lived for hundreds of years.

A short, refreshing book with ideas for the busy woman who wants to meditate on the Word more completely. You simply open your Bible and let God surprise you each day with the wonder of his love, proven in Christ and experienced in the Spirit” (140). Głębiej” przede wszystkim również zaserwuje odpowiedzi na pytania, które się ich nie doczekały w „Tunelach”. Ortlund’s illustration of inhaling the Word and exhaling prayers has been transformative in my view of reading the Bible. After intense media interest around its launch, Tunnels was published in almost forty countries and was a New York Times Bestseller, achieving sales of more than a million copies worldwide.Deeper is a thoughtful and engaging series of answers to some of the deepest questions our students ask: What is my greatest need? Both books give us a sense of compassionate security, confidence, and encouragement in our faith journey. It’s easy to think that as we grow as Christians, we move on to ‘higher things’ (whatever that means! I'm sure I'll be going back to it again and again to remind myself of the lessons taught and pick up more that I missed on the first run through.

But without the pursuit of a deeper (think closer) relationship with Jesus, these activities are incomplete. Psalm 1 says that the person who delights in God’s word and meditates on it day and night is like a “tree planted by streams of water”.Be astonished at the gracious heart of Jesus Christ, proven in his atoning work in the past and his endless intercession in the present. Anyone who has attempted to read the Puritans knows that the content of their books is much like their book titles—unnecessarily long. Having addressed this, the book then goes on to give helpful, practical ways to meditate on Scripture, to focus on the truths of the Bible and to quieten/challenge all the voices in today's culture. Sure, I have some small quibbles with the author: he thinks the ESV is the best English translation and that the kingdom of Christ is here now (Amillennialism). You don't wait til he's dead then start to take your other kids and realize o never mind it's too hard so ill just drop one off here and another there and disappear alone.