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The Abundant Life: Finding Joy in the doctrine of Christ
160 pages, Hardcover
Published September 29, 2025
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About the author
Robert L. Millet
108 books70 followersRobert L. Millet, professor of ancient scripture and former dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University, holds a master s degree in psychology from BYU and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Florida State University. He is a popular speaker and prolific writer whose other books include Lost and Found: Reflections on the Prodigal Son; Grace Works; and More Holiness Give Me. He and his wife, Shauna, have six children and live in Provo, Utah.
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December 11, 2025
Nice and simple explanation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I have always liked the way Millet thinks and writes.
October 24, 2025
“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” -Jesus (John 10:10). This book lays out the simple truths of the doctrine of Christ that have the power to: expand our joys, change our natures, ease our burdens, and fill us with love and peace in this life, and grant us eternal life in the hereafter. It is a gospel of good news and joy, and if we are not feeling those fruits of the Spirit, Millet offers ways to slow down and reorient toward God so that His gospel can fully work as it was intended—to help Christ feel near and to lead us home.
Chapter 2:
-“To what extent do we enjoy the gifts and wonders and miracles that God has ordained to be the common lot of the faithful?”
Chapter 3:
-“The gospel of Jesus Christ is a grand system of education, the power of God unto salvation, that educates our desires, sharpens our conscience, refines our feelings, and thereby sanctifies the whole human soul.”
Chapter 4:
-Being born of the Spirit: “His mind is quickened. His intellectual faculties are aroused to intense activity. He is, as it were, illuminated. He learns more of divine truth in a few days than he could have learned in a lifetime in the best merely human institutions in the world.” Parley Pratt
Chapter 8:
-“We will not enjoy the quiet and soft impressions of the Spirit if we live in the midst of noise. We cannot become an instrument of the Savior’s peace if we are so busy and so involved that we have neither time nor energy to be about our Father’s business of lifting, and loving, and severing our brothers and sisters.”
-“The Crucified One offers the blessed assurance that He will ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders that even you cannot feel them upon your backs. Thus if we learn to hand everything over to Him, it does not mean that we stop trying, but rather, trying in a new way, a less worried way.”
-“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
Chapter 11:
-“Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit…The presence of God’s Spirit is…the divine assurance that we are headed in the right direction.”
Conclusion:
-“We incorporate the powers of divinity only through acknowledging our own inabilities, accepting our limitations, and realizing our weakness. We open ourselves to infinite strength only through accepting our finite condition. We in time gain control only through being willing to relinquish control.”
-“It occurred to me recently that life is repentance, that progression and improvement and growth, and maturity, and refinement are all forms of repentance, and that the God-fearing live in a state of daily repentance.”
-“The Gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings. It is intended to liberate us, to lift and lighten our burdens. If it is not doing that in our personal lives, then perhaps our approach and understanding, our orientation, not necessarily the quantity of work to be done, may need some adjustment.”
Chapter 2:
-“To what extent do we enjoy the gifts and wonders and miracles that God has ordained to be the common lot of the faithful?”
Chapter 3:
-“The gospel of Jesus Christ is a grand system of education, the power of God unto salvation, that educates our desires, sharpens our conscience, refines our feelings, and thereby sanctifies the whole human soul.”
Chapter 4:
-Being born of the Spirit: “His mind is quickened. His intellectual faculties are aroused to intense activity. He is, as it were, illuminated. He learns more of divine truth in a few days than he could have learned in a lifetime in the best merely human institutions in the world.” Parley Pratt
Chapter 8:
-“We will not enjoy the quiet and soft impressions of the Spirit if we live in the midst of noise. We cannot become an instrument of the Savior’s peace if we are so busy and so involved that we have neither time nor energy to be about our Father’s business of lifting, and loving, and severing our brothers and sisters.”
-“The Crucified One offers the blessed assurance that He will ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders that even you cannot feel them upon your backs. Thus if we learn to hand everything over to Him, it does not mean that we stop trying, but rather, trying in a new way, a less worried way.”
-“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
Chapter 11:
-“Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit…The presence of God’s Spirit is…the divine assurance that we are headed in the right direction.”
Conclusion:
-“We incorporate the powers of divinity only through acknowledging our own inabilities, accepting our limitations, and realizing our weakness. We open ourselves to infinite strength only through accepting our finite condition. We in time gain control only through being willing to relinquish control.”
-“It occurred to me recently that life is repentance, that progression and improvement and growth, and maturity, and refinement are all forms of repentance, and that the God-fearing live in a state of daily repentance.”
-“The Gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings. It is intended to liberate us, to lift and lighten our burdens. If it is not doing that in our personal lives, then perhaps our approach and understanding, our orientation, not necessarily the quantity of work to be done, may need some adjustment.”
December 13, 2025
Hopeful & reassuring.
December 26, 2025
Powerful book with incredible insight into the doctrine of Christ that helps us learn, grow and progress.
December 31, 2025
Another classic by Millet. What can you say.
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