All Things for Good: A Puritan Guide Contributor(s): Watson, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1494800039 ISBN-13: 9781494800031 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2013 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Presbyterian - Religion | Christian Living - Spiritual Growth - Body, Mind & Spirit | Healing - Prayer & Spiritual |
Physical Information: 0.22" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.33 lbs) 104 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: Do you need encouraging in times of difficulty? This book is for you. Do you need strengthening in your walk with the LORD? This book is for you. Do you need help in everyday living? This book is for you. This book in fact brings to every person great encouragement in the opening up of Romans 8 verse 28. How does the LORD make sin and evil and persecution, and life and death and every other thing work together for good? This little book explains how so simply and gently that you just want to dance and sing for joy. The eminent Puritan pastor Thomas Watson gives us in 'All Things for Good' an exposition of Romans 8:28. In opening up this portion of God's Word his purpose is to comfort the Lord's people, and help them to see that even in the greatest trials that they will face, God is willing and able to make them work out for their good. How can the Lord work trials, both great and small, to bless and help His people? In this masterful treatise Watson shows us how this can be. In the first section of the first chapter we see that it is God's attributes, that being His power, His wisdom and His goodness that are operative in His children's behalf. The Puritans were master physicians of the soul. One cannot help but think that the depth of their understanding on how God uses affiction and trials in the lives of believers was not just in theory but in large part experiential as well. Just a brief sketch of many of their lives would reveal that to be the case. They also realized that whatever brings Christians nearer to God was to be seen as an evidence of His love and a desire to abundantly bless th |
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