July Book Review

Poor planning. This weighty volume has no business being a July read.

Michael Horton has written one of my top ten reads ever: "Putting Amazing back into Grace", which I read back in college. This book could truly be a must read every year, it is THAT good. Hint, nudge, shove, GO to your nearest reading outlet.....

Okay, so this one, is a little...... let's say..... um..... academic. I'll be perfectly honest and say that I read it and retained very little, and would suggest that writing an outline as you read would be an excellent treatment for this book. However; it is a beautiful and wholly complete journey through the covenants, and law vs. promise.

"As Paul warns, we do not recieve justification and forgiveness by grace alone, through faith alone, because of Christ alone, and then go on to sanctification as a matter of personal achievement (Gal 3:1-4). In the new covenant, all of the blessings have Christ and his obedience as the only ground qualifying us as heirs. Not some of the blessings, but all of them are comprehended "in Christ"......... because of God's sworn oath by himself, the justified sinner will also be one who perseveres against doubt, temptation, the world, the flesh, and the devil, one day inheriting by that same royal grant rest from all warfare."

and rest from incomprehension....