It's easy to get discouraged by the headlines. It can often feel as if God has left the building, like we are on our own. We want to believe God's promises to us, and we search for signs of his continuing restoration of the world in which we live. Now, with passion and heart, two leading experts on Christianity and culture cut through the chaos and uncertainty to show readers how God is powerfully active and intensely engaged in fulfilling his promise to restore all things unto himself. Through inspiring real-life stories of justice, mercy, love, and forgiveness in our midst, Smith and Stonestreet present a God who is intimately involved in his creation and using his church to work out the redemption of this world.
"-Revelation 21:5. Authors Steven Curtis Chapman and Scotty Smith explore this bold proclamation of God's commitment to redeem and restore all things through His Son, Jesus Christ.
This book offers hope for both the sexually immoral and the sexually victimized, pointing us all to the grace of Jesus Christ, who mercifully intervenes each moment in our lifelong journey toward renewal.
This revolutionary book about our future is based on the simple idea that, according to the Bible, heaven is not our eternal home--the New Earth is.
Restoring All Things in Christ
In the pages of this profound book, this Grammy-winning artist and renowned pastor reveal the grandeur and practical implications of Jesus' commitment to make all things new and the part we are to play with Him in this redemptive process.
He left the Father to cleave to us” [vs. 32–33]. So I think the question becomes, Are we going to continue to read all relational teaching in Scripture metaphorically? Are we willing to embrace it in actuality?
Examines essential elements of the Christian eschatological hope to show that it is a confident expectation rooted in the historical reality of Christ's death and resurrection. A Gospel Coalition booklet.
The Restoration of All Things
And although this book is sometimes tough on the church and its leaders, its purpose is not to tear down the evangelical church, but to restore it to its rightful place of influence in the culture and in the lives of people who desperately ...
And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that ...