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Title: By Grace Alone: How the Grace of God Amazes Me By: Sinclair B. Ferguson Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 125 Vendor: Ligonier Ministries Publication Date: 2010 | Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches) Weight: 13 ounces ISBN: 1567692028 ISBN-13: 9781567692020 Stock No: WW692020 |
Are you truly amazed by Gods grace? Or have you grown accustomed to it? Yes, we sing of Gods Amazing Grace, but do you truly understand what you as a Christian have experienced in receiving the grace of God? Or do you take divine grace for granted?
In By Grace Alone: How the Grace of God Amazes Me, Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson laments that we have lost the joy and energy that is experienced when grace seems truly amazing. In an effort to restore the wonder of divine grace, he reflects on it from seven angles, each built around a stanza from a rich but littleknown hymn, O How the Grace of God Amazes Me, written by Emmanuel T. Sibomana, a pastor in the African nation of Burundi.
This book poses probing questions for todays believer: If I am not amazed by Gods grace, can I really be living in it? Can I really be tasting, and savoring, and delighting in it? But those willing to delve into Gods Word with Dr. Ferguson will come away with a deeper astonishment at the depths of Gods grace.
Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellors Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He previously served as senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, S.C., and he has written numerous books, including The Whole Christ, In Christ Alone, Devoted to God, Some Pastors and Teachers, In the Year of Our Lord, and Maturity.
The articulation of the ideas is done in a very understandable fashion, bringing heavy matters to bear in a logical manner. The author splits the main points into seven chapters, each effectively addressing a topic in a thorough manner, striving for a goal of covering a few important subjects rather than many smaller ones. The book follows a good, logical pattern and gives the reader what is promised in portioned segments.
The book utilizes the Sibomana hymn as a cornerstone for a lot of its arguments. This, however helpful in some of the contexts, limits the books scope to some degree, even giving the book a dissertation-like air at times. As a result, the book seems as though it would be more effective as something for a collegiate audience.
Ephesians 2:5 says [God] made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressionsit is by grace you have been saved, and this book proves that in a commonsense fashion. By Grace Alone is interesting, and in my opinion is best suited for probing Christians who need the direct version of a matter and who can handle the more formal aspects of Bible study. Matthew J. Mimnaugh, www.ChristianBookPreviews.com
"This is a beautiful booka providential confluence of two pastors hearts (separated by time and culture) on the theme of grace. First, there is the pulsing heart of an obscure African pastor, Emmanuel T. Sibomana, who, many years ago, penned the magnificent seven-stanza hymn O How the Grace of God Amazes Me. Then there is the grateful and responsive heart of well-known pastor-theologian Sinclair Ferguson, who has taken the seven dazzling facets of the African hymn and held them up to the manifold light of Gods Word so that they further grace and enlighten our souls. By Grace Alone is a book that will fire your heart."
"Rich in biblical exposition and in theological depth, By Grace Alone is a series of great messages by one of todays greatest preachers on some of the greatest Scripture textsall on one of the greatest themes of the Bible: amazing grace! This book will excite your mind, stir your affection, convict your soul, win your heart, and move you to action. It will evangelize, disciple, and mature all kinds of readers. Dr. Ferguson has given us another feast, and there is food here for allsaved and unsaved, ministers and laypeople, young and old."
"Most of us have books lying on a table or bookshelf somewhere, waiting for us to get around to reading them. Please dont let this book be in that category. Sinclair Ferguson is one of the clearest, brightest lights in evangelical Christianity today. This book will point you to the freedom and exuberance of living in the grace of God through Jesus Christ. Read this book for your own encouragement, and pass it along to a new disciple or an (as yet) unbelieving neighbor."
"Sinclair Fergusons biblically insightful and pastorally profound meditations on the manifold grace of God are strung like pearls on the stanzas of the African hymn O How the Grace of God Amazes Me. Christ is at the very center, as He must be: in Him, our enslaved hearts find freedom, our guilty hearts find forgiveness, our troubled hearts find a Defender in the darkness, and our embattled hearts find strength to resist the enemys enticements. Thirsty hearts, come to Jesus and drink deeply from His fountain of amazing, life-giving, joy-imparting, hope-sustaining grace."
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