Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners (Union)

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In my own life and the lives of those I’ve counseled one of the most common questions is “how do I grow?

By looking to Christ and truly understanding who He is, and what He did for us, we grow to love Him more. In this incredibly helpful, pastoral book, Dane works out the implications of that vision of Jesus for personal growth, showing us how the key to going further with Jesus is going deeper in his finished work. The simple message of this book is so fundamental to the Christian life that, were I to state it, many would say, “I know that, I don’t need a book to tell me that” but this wholehearted look at Jesus, the real Jesus, fills the heart points you away from you to Him. The gospel does not take our good and complete us with God’s help; the gospel tells us we are dead and helpless, unable to contribute anything to our rescue but the sin that requires it. To grow as a disciple of Christ is not adding Christ to your life but collapsing into Christ as your life.I sometimes would have to stop and do something else because I could imagine the complete blackness and being 5 miles under ground. I saved a bunch of nuggets in my highlights, but instead of sharing them all, I'll just encourage you to grab this book. It was such a comfort to me in this season and I truly probably need to be reading it on rotation every few months.

The idea is that church leaders can read the full treatment, such as this one, and so delve into each topic while making the more accessible concise version widely available to their congregations. In his newest book, Deeper, pastor and author Dane Ortlund takes Christians into the deep structures of biblical teaching on how they grow in grace–most fundamentally, by enjoying all that is already theirs in Christ. Accordingly, I do not think Ortlund is endorsing a Keswick sanctification view, but the language is close enough to have warranted further clarification and perhaps a clear rejection of the Keswick view (See Nasselli’s No Quick Fix). Christ was killed so that our own relative success or failure in killing sin is no part of the formula of our adoption into God's family.This small wonderful book was a gloriously Christ centered primer on the theology and practice of marveling at the beauty of Christ (aka: sanctification). In Deeper, Dane Ortlund reminds us that the angst is satisfied not by behavioral modification or some quick fix but by the beauty of friendship with Jesus and the peace more deeply accepted in our souls. In Deeper , Dane Ortlund reminds us that the angst is satisfied not by behavioral modification or some quick fix but by the beauty of friendship with Jesus and the peace more deeply accepted in our souls. When we see how profoundly united to Jesus we are, we have a sharper sense of both the seriousness of our sin and the wonder of our redemption. Ortlund navigates angst without froth, sanctification without legalism, justification without arrogance, pain without a quick-fix, and the need for the common elements without patchwork procedures.

I see a lot of reviewers saying the characters are not likable and that is why they give it a lower rating and I simply don't get that way of thinking. O ile początek słuchałam z zainteresowaniem, to niestety im dalej w las, tym czułam się zmęczona (trochę uratował to koci Łowca, bo to jedna z moich ulubionych postaci tutaj). I am confident it will be in my top 5 books of 2024 and honestly might be my favorite (even though we’re only 9 days into the year). This lovely, easy-to-read primer by Dane Ortlund grounds our discipleship in the glowing center of Christianity―our Lord Jesus. New York Times bestselling author of The Reckoning takes readers on an intense and imaginative tour de force in this follow up horror novel to The Descent that plunges in the depths of Earth to a Hell that is real, geological, and savagely inhabited right below our very feet.The apostle Paul builds on the metaphor of walking to indicate daily incremental progress—rarely the quantum leap—in becoming more like Jesus, upon whom we are fixated. As a graduating student, is my choice of church, career path, college, trade school, or military service a sign that I’m free to forge my own way, or am I simply bound by the standards of my parents or my culture?

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. editor’s note: Youth Pastor Theologian received a complementary review copy of Deeper from the publisher, but we were not expected to provide a positive review. I received an ecopy of Deeper from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review, but all opinions are my own. Ortlund recognized that the “teaching on mortification is the most active facet of our growing in Christ. The Gospel Coalition helps people know God's Word with their mind, love God fully with their heart, and engage the world with grace and truth.In other words, the gospel that saved them led to the experience that motivated them to continue on the path of discipleship. It was also interesting to think about how biblical meditation is different to mindfulness but also where there are overlaps. If we are trying to grow by merely looking more godly to others but are not changing our heart towards our sin, we have it backwards. The one you avoid telling people about—or if you do, you hide just how deep its roots have infiltrated into your heart.