The Rest Of The Gospel Ebook
Florine Nogoda
"Do I have life 'more abundant'?" That's a question millions of Christians have asked down through the ages. Dan Stone asked that question during a time of spiritual frustration in his own life and God answered by showing Dan he had been living only a part of the gospel message. Dan's search led him to discover the truth of "Christ in you" as "the rest of the gospel" that most Christians overlook.
Readers who are hungry for a deeper experience with God will resonate with Dan's discovery of "the rest of the gospel," which is indeed rest for everyone who is willing to finally let go and let God.
In Soul Rest, Curtis Zackery reveals how our misaligned view of rest has its roots in an identity that is out of rhythm with God. Taking steps toward understanding Sabbath in the way that God intends can dynamically affect every aspect of our lives. This thoughtful reflection on rest calls us to the intentional work of self-examination, helping us move towards a purposeful and sustainable life with Jesus.
In the companion video series to Soul Rest, Curtis Zackery guides viewers through a thoughtful reflection on rest. Each lesson concludes with reflection questions to facilitate group discussion or to help you think through the teaching on your own.
For some of us, resting seems like a waste of time\u2014it means we're missing out on other things. For others, rest seems like a luxury\u2014there's simply too much to do. And for almost all of us, we crave rest, but don't always know how to.
It shows us how rest gives us time to spend with God and remember his grace. Discover how rest fuels our joy and confidence in God's sovereignty as we learn to depend on him, and not our own efforts, and are refreshed by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Adam Mabry shows us how rest helps us make space for relationships, shared experiences and moments to remember; how it liberates us from the pressure of self-reliance; how it gives us a chance to think and reflect; and how it stops us from burning out.
Finally, this book casts a realistic vision for rest that is less rule and more rhythm\u2014less onerous restriction and more liberating art form. Adam Mabry helps us to learn the 'art of rest' with some practical suggestions.
I've read a lot of books about rest and the intro and most of chapter one were very similar to other texts. However, as I got further into the book there were some important self truths to learn about resisting rest, how to 'do' nothing, unhealthy work patterns, building endurance, putting rest into the middle of the working day. I have started putting some of these into practise and am already noticing the difference. The book is also slim enough to keep to hand in a pocket and keep dipping into as a reminder of the need to rest to be effective in life and ministry.
The Bible teaches that all people will die, and all will survive the grave and live either with Christ or without him in eternity. 76-year-old evangelist John Chapman explores how we can know if this is true, and, if so, how to prepare for that eternity. This is a warm-hearted, good-humoured and challenging evangelistic book for 'seniors'. It explains how we can know about life after death, what the new creation will be like, and whether we can be sure of being part of it. (Large print!)
John Chapman writes: "I am 76 years old. You may think it strange that I am writing about making the most of the rest of our lives. Humanly speaking, I don't have all that much left. The average male lives for 79 years. That doesn't leave me much time. On the other hand, if there is life after death, if eternity is really eternity and I have the greater bulk of my life to look forward to, then that makes all the difference. If there is life after death, is it possible to make the most of it? Is it possible to prepare for that life, or is it totally a matter of chance? These are the questions I want to address in this short book.
Nobody teaches us to rest. Pastor Adam Mabry - like many others - discovered the consequences the hard way. This "starter in the art of rest" explores why we find it hard to stop and makes an urgent plea for us to discover patterns and rhythms of rest before the pace and complexity of life overwhelms us. This is a book I really wish I had read when I was starting in Christian ministry.
Many Christians struggle with feelings of inadequacy, putting in a lot of effort to improve our Christian lives without seeing any real results. This performance-based mindset can be exhausting, leaving us feeling empty, guilty, and depressed. This free eBook argues that true rest can be found in Jesus Christ alone.
This is a seminal, succinct, sensitive presentation of the crucial nexus of covenant theology and biblical hermeneutics. Exalting Christ and His grace through the gospel while filtering through the scope and sequence of all the Scriptures, this book will edify believers, educate scholars and engage critics. This volume demands an honest reading and deserves a wide distribution.
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Ray Ortlund brilliantly enables you to carefully examine your marriage through the lenses of creation, fall, law, and gospel. In so doing, he helps us deepen our understanding of marriage, know why it is a struggle for us all, diagnose the marriage confusion in our culture, be clear where marriage help is to be found, and fall in love all over again with our God of amazing love, wisdom, and grace."
Paul David Tripp, author, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional
Pope Francis is the first Pope to visit the United States since 2008. His visit has provoked many Christians to ask sincere questions concerning Roman Catholicism. In light of this, Reformation Trust is making the ebook editions of R.C. Sproul's Are We Together? free until the end of September. We encourage you to download this ebook and share it with your family, friends, and church community.
These 30 devotions have been specifically designed to help you to rest in the Lord\u2019s goodness and glory during your time away so that you can return home feeling refreshed spiritually as well as physically.
\u201cI want to help you find rest, peace, joy, hope and renewed zeal. We go away to be refreshed. Christ is the one who sets his Spirit in our hearts to cause streams of living water to well up within us and flow from us . Sometimes we rest away from Jesus, but how much better to rest with and in him? He is where our true refreshment is found.\u201d
Too often our holidays are times of spiritual atrophy. We rest our bodies but not our souls. In these little devotionals, John Hindley points us to the glory of God in the creation around us to lift our gaze to Jesus, who gives the deepest and sweetest rest. Read and be properly refreshed!
Refreshed is a book of devotions specifically to take away to read when you are on holiday. Most people take some holiday reading with them, and this is such a delightful idea.
Holidays are meant to be a time of refreshing, but I know that I have always treated them as a holiday from everything, including spending time with God. How wrong this is, and in fact how much more refreshing a break would be if I spent some quality time with God.
This is a well-planned devotional that is a must pack in your holiday hand luggage.
It is well written, gentle, designed to bring peace and rest. It is structured in a way that you can dip in to the appropriate sections, or just pick those topics that you feel are appropriate to your particular break.
I do like the way it has been written to involve the whole family, with ideas for family time together each day, by way of some practical, creative and fun ideas to keep God's word with you through the holiday.
I have a feeling that if I had used this book on previous holidays, the time would have been so much more relaxing and fruitful.
There are some challenging thoughts, that are posed to help the reader gain a deeper and truer release into a place of rest... the sort of rest and peace that we should be able to expect.
This is a uniquely fun devotional. Hindley designed the book to provide short, refreshing devotions for anyone on any type of vacation. Often we can feel even more overwhelmed during our vacations as we attempt to fill it up with as much stuff and experiences as possible and then end up returning weary and tired. I think this devotional does a good job of reminding us the purpose of a vacation and encouraging us continually focus on God throughout every experience we have planned.
The book is structured with twelve themes and thirty devotions. Themes range from Friends & Family to Beach to Hills & Mountains to Farmland and everything in-between. Each daily devotional is formatted similarly with the following sections:
- For Today
- For The Family
- Chat
- Scripture Reading
I enjoyed this devotional and felt it was one I could return to multiple times for whatever vacation or resting period our family may have planned. Although the devotions and section questions are geared towards families, it can be adapted to be completed solo and be just as refreshing.
I received a copy of this book from The Good Book Company in exchange for an honest review.