Grace Is Not To Be Experienced Alone

God designed his overcoming grace to flow through the church-through the people of God clustered in communities all around the globe. Someone had to share the gospel of grace with us in the first place and-once we've embraced the gospel-it's through the community of faith that God's Spirit works to kill the residue sin that remains in us. We cannot experience this grace alone any more than we can get married alone...God has saved you by grace alone, but he hasn't saved you to be alone. The grace that transforms us places us in a community that together overcomes.

Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones, Proof:Finding Freedom Through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace

Our Sins Did Not Thwart God's Plan

God didn't plan for Christ's work on the cross to extend a certain distance only to discover later that his creatures have somehow thwarted his good intentions. God's grace always goes precisely as far as God planned.

Daniel Montgomery & Timothy Paul Jones, Proof: Finding Freedom Through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace

Calvinism Debate

This past Wednesday in Chicago, there was a debate on Calvinism which featured Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones who wrote the book,
Proof: Finding Freedom Through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace, who are on the side of Calvinism. While on the side of the issue is Austin Fisher, author of Young, Restless, and No Longer Reformed, and Brian Zahnd, author of Farewell to Mars.

There are two parts to this debate. The first deals with unconditional predestination and the other talks about the cause of faith and repentance.

Music Monday: Proof by Sojourn

Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones have written a book called, Proof: Finding Freedom Through The Intoxication Joy of Irresistable Grace. This book has been well received by many Christian scholars and pastors. I have recently got a copy of the book that I am planning to read within the next couple of weeks. Sojourn Music has released a soundtrack to the book which contains songs from various albums they have already on the market.