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How The Gospel Brings Us All The Way Home (2011)

by Derek W.H. Thomas(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1567692567 (ISBN13: 9781567692563)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Reformation Trust Publishing

review 1: Excellent book! This is, essentially, an exposition on Romans 8. The main theme is that it is the Gospel by which we are saved, persevere, and finally go home to be with Jesus. One aspect that stuck with me the most was in the section in which Paul talks about the current fallen-ness of creation and how it will one day be made right. Derek Thomas notes that "it is our calling to gaze deliberately and see things as they will be rather than as they are."
review 2: It has been well said that the book of Romans is “the Gospel according to Paul,” because of his comprehensive overview of the story of man’s redemption from the fall to glory. More so than any other chapter in Scripture, Romans 8, the center of Paul’s letter, distills the grand narrative and pow... moreerful truths of the Gospel into a few verses packed with meaning. For this reason, many (possibly) most hold one or more of its passages as their favorite verses. Also for this reason, it ranks as one of few chapters in Scripture that can support a commentary on its own, independent of the book as a whole.It is with that in mind that Derek Thomas offers theological meditations on Romans 8 in The Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home. Over eleven chapters Thomas expounds on our great and living hope: the work of Christ in Salvation, our adoption and protection by God, the intercession of Christ and the Spirit, and the response of believers through mortification of sin, submission, and prayer. Though Thomas’ scholarship and depth of reasoning are clearly evident here, this book is not a commentary “for commentary sake.” It beats with a pastor’s heart for understanding and application (it was even born out of a series of sermons), reading not as an academic study, but as an impassioned appeal for Christians to soak in the truth of the Gospel that it is by God’s grace that His Son was given for our sins and that His Spirit lives within us to bind us to Him. Because of this style, the book would be an excellent choice for a personal, family, or small group study. Thomas is quick to remind us that this Gospel spelled out so beautifully by Paul in this chapter is the heartbeat of our faith, and that we can never devote too much time and energy to telling and retelling its mysteries to God’s great glory. Indeed the cross of Christ is the center point of all God’s creation and character, as Paul writes, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?” (Rom. 8:32). How could we spend our energies on anything less? less

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