Standing on the Promises

by Lewis B. Smedes

New Hardbound with Colorful Glossy Dust Cover

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Lewis Benedictus Smedes (1921 — December 19, 2002) was a renowned Christian author, ethicist, and theologian in the Reformed tradition. He was a professor of theology and ethics for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His 15 books, including the popular Forgive and Forget, covered some important issues including sexuality and forgiveness.

Lewis Benedictus Smedes was born in 1921, the youngest of five children. His father, Melle Smedes, and mother, Rena (Benedictus), emigrated to the United States from Oostermeer, Friesland in the Netherlands. (Rena's name before being changed by the officials at Ellis Island was Renske.) When he was two-months-old, his father died in the partially completed house he built in Muskegon, Michigan. He married Doris Dekker. He died after falling from a ladder at his home in Sierra Madre, California on December 19, 2002. He was survived by his wife, three children, two grandchildren and one brother.

In addition to many articles, Smedes wrote many popular books including:

* Forgive & Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve, Harper, 1984
* A Pretty Good Person What it Takes to Live with Courage, Gratitude, & Integrity or When Pretty Good Is as Good as You Can Be, Harper, 1990
* Standing on the Promises
* Choices: Making Right Decisions in a Complex World
* How Can It Be All Right When Everything Is All Wrong?
* Caring & Commitment: Learning to Live the Love We Promise
* The Incarnation in Modern Anglo-Catholic Theology
* All Things Made New
* Love Within Limits
* Sex for Christians
* Mere Morality: What God Expects From Ordinary People
* A Life of Distinction
* The Art of Forgiving
* Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don't Deserve
* Keeping Hope Alive
* My God and I, a Spiritual Memoir, Eerdmans, 2003

Reviews

[Mark VanderWerf · Rating 4 out of 5]

“I believe that one day life will win over death, that good will win over evil, that love will win over hate, that joy will win over sadness, and that the whole world will work the way its Creator intended it to work. I want it desperately, I can imagine what it would be like, and I believe that with God it is possible. I have no hard evidence that such goodness is likely to heal our broken world. But I do have my reasons for believing it can. The reasons all compress into one: God. God is; therefore I hope. I hope; therefore I am.

These then — wishing, imagining, and believing — are the stuff that hope is made of.” (25)

Smedes being Smedes.

[Akash Patel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone must have one copy because we all are hopeful.

We babble the word HOPE daily. After reading this book, we can have discrete and disperate kind of comprehension for HOPE.

Just like, we are designed by God " to think and feel" , to HOPE TOO - IT'S BRED IN BONE..

Book devided in three parts and with many small chapters.
First part of book is about basics of HOPE. Second part is about how hopeful people keep hope alive and the ultimate level of Hope, that's fascinating, is when God is involved, is third part.

One of the few books, one can read - COVER TO COVER with same intensity. Can read again and again when feel hopeless. Can read again and again for better grip everytime.

The title " STANDING ON PROMISIS" can be understood in last chapter only..
That's His commitment. And He is GOD.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

His perspective on Heaven was different than most I've heard:
To wake up tomorrow and discover the person you loved most passionately loves you even more. . . Hearing music you love but had never heard this way before ..See the very core of yourself, and like e v e r y t h i n g that you see. . ."
Loved that.

[Levi · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best books on hope that I've read.