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Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jesus said we should focus our minds and hearts on God above all else. No small task! Is there someone we can turn to for help? "Wisdom tells us to sit at the feet of our elders rather than the latest ministry fad," notes author Kyle Strobel. And is there a better elder to guide us than Jonathan Edwards? In Edwards, the eighteenth-century Puritan pastor and theologian, we find deep thought...

Christ Jesus, through the indwelling Spirit. Therefore, the life of grace will be equally relational. Edwards’s point in the quote above narrates this well. Why does the Spirit continue to act in the soul? Not because of anything we do, but only by God’s grace and God’s covenant with us. In short, we can grow in grace because God has given himself to his people in love and has covenanted with us. We never lay claim on grace. Grace is always a gift. Therefore, in the same way, the life of grace will
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