Joel Rockey
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“So sanctification isn’t something we lean back on, as much as it’s something we lean into. Rather than being an action only God can do, all by Himself (the way justification and adoption are), sanctification is an endeavor He undertakes in full cooperation and partnership with us. It requires us to exert what you might call “grace-driven effort”—made possible only by the merciful initiative of God, of course, and yet fully employing our human brains, brawn, and body parts as we go.”
― Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change
― Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change
“We could summarize the views of our Christian heroes across the centuries with a sentence from Jonathan Edwards: “Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.”
― Family Worship
― Family Worship
“As I meditate on the gospel each day, I find my thoughts inevitably traveling from the gifts I’ve received to the Giver of those gifts; and the more my thoughts are directed to Him, the more I experience the essence of eternal life.”
― A Gospel Primer for Christians
― A Gospel Primer for Christians
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” said the Lion.”
― The Silver Chair
― The Silver Chair
“Consistent, father-led family worship is one of the best, steadiest, and most easily measurable ways to bring up children in the Lord’s “discipline and instruction.”
― Family Worship
― Family Worship
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
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