Friday, March 15, 2013

The Gospel-Centered Woman


The Gospel-Centered Woman: Understanding Biblical Womanhood through the Lens of the Gospel. Ladies! Sounds like an excellent book! Here's a book review by The Gospel Coalition  Amazon.com

“The gospel creates the only kind of grief over sin which is clean and which does not crush. It says: ‘Look at Jesus dying for you! He won’t leave you or abandon you–how then can you respond as you are? He suffered so you wouldn’t do this thing! You are not living as though you are loved! As his child! It is not because he will abandon you that you should be holy, but because this is the one who at inestimable cost to himself has said he won’t ever abandon you! How can you live in the very sin that he was ripped to pieces to deliver you from?" Tim Keller

The Puritans called it gospel-holiness.... To the carnal Corinthian church Paul, by the Spirit, wrote this: Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you-- unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.... 1 Corinthians 15:1 - 5

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