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Acting the Miracle
Sanc●ti●fi●ca●tion - noun - ˌsaŋ(k)-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən
: a big word for the little-by-little progress of the everyday Christian life
Fighting sin is not easy. No one ever coasted into greater godliness. Christian growth takes effort. But we are not left alone. God loves to work the miracle of sanctification within us as we struggle for daily progress in holiness. With contributions from Kevin DeYoung, John Piper, Ed Welch, Russell Moore, David Mathis, and Jarvis Williams, this invigorating book will help you say no to the deception of sin and yes to true joy in Jesus.
: a big word for the little-by-little progress of the everyday Christian life
Fighting sin is not easy. No one ever coasted into greater godliness. Christian growth takes effort. But we are not left alone. God loves to work the miracle of sanctification within us as we struggle for daily progress in holiness. With contributions from Kevin DeYoung, John Piper, Ed Welch, Russell Moore, David Mathis, and Jarvis Williams, this invigorating book will help you say no to the deception of sin and yes to true joy in Jesus.
176 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2013
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John Piper
609 books4,622 followersJohn Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.), and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years, he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem.
John is the author of more than 50 books and more than 30 years of his preaching and teaching is available free at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and twelve grandchildren.
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He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.), and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years, he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem.
John is the author of more than 50 books and more than 30 years of his preaching and teaching is available free at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and twelve grandchildren.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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February 11, 2017
Worth the read. Collected papers from the 2013 Desiring God conference. Highlights were David Mathis' introduction/orientation, John Piper's conclusion (which might have been better at the start, since the "Acting the Miracle" terminology is quite helpful, but wasn't explained until here), Kevin DeYoung's chapter warning against collapsing all Christian motivation into "the cross" (which I need to hear), Ed Welch's fantastic chapter (found this so helpful that I can't easily summarise it - but I've promoted his other book in my to-read list) and Russell Moore's practical chapter on the role of the church in sanctification.
January 2, 2014
The essays from this volume are drawn from sermons at a Desiring God conference. The conference seemed designed to address an antinomian tendency among some of the "young, restless, and reformed" whose conception of "grace-based," and "gospel-centered" leaves no room for Spirit-empowered personal striving toward Christlikeness. I found the essays by John Piper and Kevin DeYoung to be the most beneficial. Piper develops a theology of sanctification and DeYoung demonstrates that the Bible gives a multiplicity of incentives for sanctification.
November 15, 2013
I remember hearing John Piper's "Act The Miracle" sermon the very first time he preached it and remember feeling tremendously helped. In 2012, the folks at Desiring God decided to throw together a conference that would focus on working out some implications from Piper's original sermon. This book was the compilation of the talks. A really great resource!
August 23, 2018
This book is basically a transcription of the 2012 Desiring God National Conference. It features the transcribed comments and messages of Kevin DeYoung, Ed Welch, Russell Moore, Jarvis Williams, David Mathis, and John Piper. How is a person sanctified? Does God do it? Do we? Do we participate with Him? Are we the passengers in the sanctification car? Do we drive? Where does it start? Where does it lead? How do we get there? How do we know if we are even on the road? This book helps us to see the grace of God at work in our lives and challenges us to act on that reality every day.
November 4, 2016
A helpful "various-authors" book on the not-always-easy-to-grasp doctrine of sanctification. The contributions by Ed Welch, Kevin DeYoung and John Piper are particularly strong. It is available for free in PDF on the Desiring God website.
April 17, 2014
Rarely read 'theology' but this was a good recommendation from a friend. The middle portions about corporate graces and sanctification were less relevant to me but Piper's conclusion and the conversation transcript at the end was truly riveting. Worth a second read definitely- Powerful.
April 5, 2015
The quality of the chapters varied, but overall an insightful look at progressive sanctification, as well as exploring some aspects I'd not thought much about before.
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