Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners (Union)

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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. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. It gives lots of practical and theological ways to live this out, and it’s definitely worth the time.

A worthy followup to Gentle and Lowly, showing the reader how to move on and apply that which was often only implied in the previous. 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.Popular opinion aside, it does not happen by doing more and becoming better; “Change is a matter of going deeper” ( Deeper, p. In a book on sanctification, I was surprised to find almost no consideration of the role of believer in “working out their own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. He is currently elder for pulpit supply and interim pastor for area local churches in upstate New York. 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 Edwards on the Christian Life . He earned a PhD from Wheaton College and is an editor for the Knowing the Bible series and the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series.

This book is simple in its approach to change: go deeper into Jesus, which is in fact, the Biblical approach to change. Think about an “angsty teen” and you probably conjure up stereotypes of late-90’s goths, teary-eyed fans wailing Dashboard Confessional in the mid 2000’s, or affluenza-stricken hyper-privileged suburbanites from 2015 to present day. This book captures the heart of his previous work, Gentle and Lowly, and applies it to the process of growth in the life of the Christian. O ile początek słuchałam z zainteresowaniem, to niestety im dalej w las, tym czułam się zmęczona (trochę uratował to koci Łowca, bo to jedna z moich ulubionych postaci tutaj).Ortlund’s illustration of inhaling the Word and exhaling prayers has been transformative in my view of reading the Bible. 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. We need to remember what we are without Christ to continue to promote the humility necessary to be properly engaged with 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. The one you avoid telling people about—or if you do, you hide just how deep its roots have infiltrated into your heart.