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Christians know that God loves them, but can easily feel that he is perpetually disappointed and frustrated, maybe even close to giving up on them. As a result, they focus a lot--and rightly so--on what Jesus has done to appease God's wrath for sin. But how does Jesus Christ actually feel about his people amid all their sins and failures? This book draws us to Matthew 11, where Jesus describes himself as "gentle and lowly in heart," longing for his people to find rest in him. The gospel flows from God's deepest heart for his people, a heart of tender love for the sinful and suffering. These chapters take readers into the depths of Christ's very heart for sinners, diving deep into Bible passages that speak of who Christ is and encouraging readers with the affections of Christ for his people. His longing heart for sinners comforts and sustains readers in their up-and-down lives.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Ortlund, Dane C.
- ISBN: 9781433566134
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.00 x 1.00
- Number Of Pages: 224
- Publication Year: 2020
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English
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Carrie N. - 4 years 5 months agoThis book will take you into a much deeper understanding of who Jesus is today and what He wants with you and for you.
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"The Christian life boils down to two steps: Go to Jesus. See #1.”
Jennifer E. - 5 years 1 month ago“If we are asked to say only one thing about who Jesus is, we would be honoring Jesus’s own teaching if our answer is, gentle and lowly.” Dane Ortland acts as “a friend [who takes] our two hands and places them on the chest of the risen Lord Jesus Christ;” his book is a “stethoscope letting us hear the vigorous strength of Christ’s deepest affections and longings.” God’s heart “looks like a Middle Eastern carpenter restoring men’s and women’s dignity and humanity and health and conscience through healings and exorcisms and teaching and hugging and forgiving...Christ was sent not to mend wounded people or wake sleepy people or advise confused people or inspire bound people or spur on lazy people or educate ignorant people, but to raise dead people.” “His heart for his own is not like an arrow, shot quickly but soon falling to the ground...His heart is an avalanche, gathering momentum with time...We are that glider; Christ is the plane. But he never disengages. He never lets go, wishing us well, hoping we can glide the rest of the way into heaven. He carries us all the way.” “One day God is going to walk us through the wardrobe into Narnia, and we will stand there, paralyzed with joy, wonder, astonishment, and relief.” The Spirit’s role “is to turn our postcard apprehensions of Christ’s great heart of affection for us into an experience of sitting on the beach, in a lawn chair, drink in hand, enjoying the actual experience.” “To ask, ‘Now how do I apply this to my life?’ would be a trivialization of the point of this study...The Christian life boils down to two steps: Go to Jesus. See #1.” Whether you are actively laboring to crowbar your way into the kingdom of heaven or passively laden by circumstances beyond your control, Gentle and Lowly is an invitation to gaze “at the single diamond of Christ’s heart” in its myriad facets.
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Dawn L. - 5 years 6 months agoBook of the year for me, no question. Written for Christian believers. Open to any page to read of Christ's love for His people. Better yet, read from beginning to end with a Bible at hand as you see God's heart of love and mercy all through Scripture. "The Christian life, from one angle, is the long journey of letting our natural assumption about who God is, over many decades, fall away, being slowly replaced with God’s own insistence on who he is. This is hard work. It takes a lot of sermons and a lot of suffering to believe that God’s deepest heart is “merciful and gracious, slow to anger.” The fall in Genesis 3 not only sent us into condemnation and exile. The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today is not the sin in which you regularly indulge but the dark thoughts of God’s heart that cause you to go there in the first place and keep you cool toward him in the wake of it." #SpringPicks