A worthy followup to Gentle and Lowly, showing the reader how to move on and apply that which was often only implied in the previous. In fact, Ortlund’s theology in this volume leads in the direction of needing more emphasis on the human side. Grab this book, a friend or two, and slowly walk through the chapters mulling over these truths and applying them to your life! It’s only with that foundation that I can put to death the stubborn sins in my life and “work out [my] own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil 2:12).

True spiritual growth is not just outward conformity, inward doctrinal knowledge, or felt experience, although true growth includes all three. Both books give us a sense of compassionate security, confidence, and encouragement in our faith journey.You won’t find fast food here, it’s more like a full-course meal sitting around the table with family and friends, with necessary time to digest and relax between courses. Only when it finally vanished from sight behind the briar hedges did she turn to gaze at the grassy slopes that rose on either side of the road.

The detail given of the underground is wonderful, from the eerily replicated streets and houses to the adapted and rather strange diet that Will and Chester find themselves having to survive on . It’s like it resulted In a sort of reflected emphasis or slight fuzziness to truths that might be better stated with primary clarity.W drugim tomie wraz z bohaterami będziemy kontynuować przygodę od miejsca, w którym zakończyła się w poprzedniej części. It’s then, as you give up on yourself and throw your hands up in the air, that your heart is most fertile for the supernaturalizing power of the Holy Spirit” (167).

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.Dane helps us understand that the gospel is more of a person to adore and know than theological propositions and categories to master. Importantly, Ortlund does not suggest that such experience is normative, nor does he indicate that it is necessary. If we are trying to grow by merely looking more godly to others but are not changing our heart towards our sin, we have it backwards. In this book, Dane Ortlund points believers to Christ, making the case that sanctification does not happen by doing more or becoming better, but by going deeper into the wondrous gospel truths that washed over them when they were first united to him.