Faith and Life

Recently I've been pondering how we get the Gospel from our head down into our heart so that it transforms us. There is a wonderful passage in Matthew's Gospel that helps me shed light on how the Gospel applies to life. It is the parable of building your house on a solid rock. Here it is: “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like  FZ )" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> a wise man who built his house on the rock.   And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.  And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like  GA )" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> a foolish man who built his house on the sa...

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book because I hadn't read any of Sinclair Ferguson's work before. I have heard him speak in various Ligonier Ministries YouTube videos and thoroughly enjoyed him. I have read a couple of books in the same vein as this: "The Holiness of God" by RC Sproul and "The Hole in our Holiness" by Kevin DeYoung. Both of those were great, although the former focused more on how God is holy than on how we become such. Incase you're not familiar with the author, I'll give you a brief introduction to him before getting into what the book was like. He hails from Scotland, however he has spent most of his life in ministry in the Presbyterian Church of America. Now he is a Seminary Professor in the U.S. and commutes there from his home in Scotland. He is also a Teaching Fellow with Ligonier Ministries and one of the Pastors at a Church in Dundee. You may be wondering what I thought of the book. The tile describes what the ...

Introduction The five solas of the Reformation were: Faith alone Grace alone Christ alone Scripture alone God's glory alone Both of these books focus on Faith Alone, otherwise known as justification by faith alone. This is an essential doctrine in the Christian faith, and both of these books define and defend it very well.  The God Who Justifies - James White This is a big book. 374 pages to be precise! In the first half we have a very detailed explanation of how the doctrine of justification by faith alone works, and in the second half we have a very thorough exegesis of several central passages on justification from the New Testament. I found it an excellent introduction to the doctrine of justification by faith alone. It doesn't really compare the Protestant view to the Roman Catholic one, unlike Faith Alone. It wasn't too heavy or hard to understand. White has a way of explaining complex theological matters in a simple fashion, and that is evident th...