Proof : finding freedom through the intoxicating joy of irresistible grace /: finding freedom through the intoxicating joy of irresistible grace. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones.
• Other Names: Montgomery, Daniel, 1974-
• Contents: Introduction: The Dangerous Delight of Divine GraceHuman hopes falter and fail. Asked to tell a story in only six words, one novelist responded with these words: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” Human hopes can fall to pieces. But here is a beautiful bit of good news when we consider how often our plans can fall apart: This never happens to God. God knows all things, past, present, and future–so nothing happens that he cannot predict. God is powerful above and beyond all things–so no challenge ever arises that he can’t stop. That’s good news for believers in Jesus Christ. If you’ve trusted Jesus, it’s not because you planned out your life in your fleeting and faulty wis-dom. It’s because God set his heart on you from eternity past; God made this choice knowing eve-rything about you–past, present, and future! As a result, nothing can change his choice to pour out his grace on you. Not your sin. Not your fears. Not the darkness that gnaws at your heart that no one else knows about. Nothing in your future. Nothing in your past. Nothing in all creation can sep-arate you from God’s love. Nothing. God proved his love for you once and for all through the cross of Jesus and the empty tomb–and nothing can change that determination to save you by his grace. His grace was…PLANNED from all eternity, knowing that he wouldRESURRECT your lifeless soul to lavish grace into your life that isOUTRAGEOUS because it doesn’t depend on what you’ve done andOVERCOMING because it transforms your desires so that you long for Jesus. Because this grace depends on what God has already determined and done, it lastsFOREVER.Together, that spells “PROOF, ” which is precisely what God has provided in Jesus and poured out into our lives through the gospel: Proof of grace that will never let us go because it never depended on us in the first place; it depends instead on a God who is greater than anything we could ask or imagine.Chapter One: Planned GraceChapter Two: Resurrecting GraceChapter Three: Outrageous GraceChapter Four: Overcoming GraceChapter Five: Forever GraceChapter Six: PROOF in ActionConclusion: The Beautiful Paradox
• Publisher Details: Grand Rapids : Zondervan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 234; RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth; Grace (Theology); Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780310513902; 0310513901
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