Here are three religious books I have recently read and would recommend:
The Spirit is breathing new life into Christ’s church. You can feel it. It’s time to lower the drawbridge, open the shutters, and let the air in. It’s time to take the precious gifts that God has entrusted us with, and that we have been carefully stewarding for two centuries, and use them to bless the world. It’s time to let the Restoration do its work not just for the church but for the world. The Restoration is God’s ongoing invitation to modern humanity to come to Christ and be healed. The Restoration is the work of a loving Father and Mother who are pained that their children needlessly suffer and who have already prepared the banquet for their beloved prodigals. The Restoration is today’s fulfillment of an age-old promise to a worldwide family (pg. 8).
God, as the Supreme Power in the universe, invites His people to enter into a covenant. They are agents unto themselves. He does not force them. He gives them choice. The covenant is conditional. If they keep the commandments and divine statutes that He reveals, they will be blessed with a fullness of the promises made to Abraham. Those who fail to show devoted loyalty to God lose their access to the blessings of Abraham (pg. 72). God will not force us to accept the promises He made to Abraham. God will not compel us to make covenants. God will not require us to live in His promised lands. God loves and invites. He makes the covenants available. He has prophetic writers preserve the stories of faithful individuals who trusted God and reaped the covenantal rewards so that we as readers will be encouraged to also trust the god of covenants. The purpose of this life is for us to choose to be on the covenant path (pg. 261).
This is the God we believe in. The God of rams in thickets. The shipbuilder, the well giver, the prison breaker. A God who opens up seas and dries up mud. The One who wins battles with broken pitchers and single stones, who stands in fiery furnaces and closes the mouths of lions. Every story is different, but the outcome is the same. Unexpected deliverance (pg. 6).
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