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Coming Soon… From the Resurrection to His Return

February 23, 2012 Leave a comment

I’m glad to announce that the fine folks at Christian Focus Publications were kind of enough to send me a copy of From the Resurrection to His Return by D.A. Carson in order to review on this blog.  Be looking for this review during the week of March 12.

Here’s the production description:

This is not another book on what view to hold about the reality of Jesus’ return but it is about how to live in the light of his imminent return. D. A. Carson accurately determines that the Christian church has always lived in what the bible terms ‘the last days’…the period between his ascension to his Father in heaven and his return on the clouds of heaven.

Based on Paul’s teaching in 2 Timothy 3, D. A. Carson gives wise counsel to today’s church to avoid false teaching and to seek good mentors, those who will lead us in truth. He shows that to rely on worldly wisdom is folly, that the world is utterly sinful, but rather to cling to the Bible as the source of our counsel and guidance and help. But more than that he shows us that it is in holding the Bible out to a needy world we take its message to where it is needed the most.

To live in the last days is not to hang on in quiet desperation but to boldly take the word of God and apply it to every situation knowing that it will meet every need just as it has throughout the two millennia since Jesus promised to return again. That is how to live in the last days!

One a side note, I recently found out that Dr. Carson will be speaking at my church in September.  Do you think he will sign my e-book?

Categories: Book Review, Books

Redemptively Different

February 23, 2012 Leave a comment

“We can’t engineer God’s transcendent presence; we can only fall on our faces and beg for it.  In fact, we rob this world of the opportunity to see God high and lifted up – above and beyond us – when we try to program him and fit him into contemporary categories of ‘cool.’  When the size of God grips us more than the size of our churches and leadership conferences, and when we become obsessed with surrendering our lives to God’s sovereign presence, only then we will be redemptively different and serve as God’s cosmic change agents in a world yearning for change.”

Tullian Tchividjian , Unfashionable - Page 18

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