![]() ![]() Along with our personal time of prayer and reading, we are encouraged to seek advice from seasoned saints, have conversations about Bible study with others, and pray together. Mathis takes a different approach that is both insightful and refreshing. So often, as we consider the spiritual disciplines, we think of what we must do individually. Matt Bradner, Staff Development, Campus Outreach I am eager to get it into the hands of our campus ministry staff and see it being read in dorm rooms and student centers across the country. This book has the breadth of a literature review that reads like a devotional. I am extremely grateful for David’s commitment to take the timeless message in this book and communicate it in language that is winsome to the mind and warm to the heart. This is one of those books! David has found a well-worn path to Jesus through the habits of grace he commends to us. I am drawn to books that I know are first lived out in the messiness of life before finding their way onto clean sheets of paper. Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Radio Host, Revive Our Hearts David Mathis has given us a primer for experiencing and exuding ever-growing delight in Christ through grace-initiated intentional habits that facilitate the flow of yet fuller springs of grace into and through our lives. This is the kind of book I turn to periodically to help examine and recalibrate my heart, my priorities, and my walk with the Lord. Michael Horton, Professor, Westminster Seminary California ![]() I’m grateful for Habits of Grace bringing the disciplines back into the conversation and, hopefully, back into our practice as well. Besides prayer, there are other habits that grace motivates and shapes. Like a baby’s first cry, prayer is the beginning of that life of response to grace given, and we never grow out of it. Christ promises to bless us through his means of grace: his Word preached and written, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper. Yet character is largely a bundle of habits. The very word habits can be a turnoff, especially in a culture of distraction and autonomy. But today the pendulum has swung in the other direction: it seems that family and private devotions have fallen off the radar. When I was growing up, spiritual disciplines were often surrounded by an air of legalism. In a world where everything seems to be getting more complicated, this book will help us to downshift and refocus on the things that matter most. In Habits of Grace, Mathis writes brilliantly about three core spiritual disciplines that will help us realign our lives and strengthen our faith. Finn, Provost and Dean of the University Faculty, North Greenville University This book is perfect for small group study, devotional reading, or for passing on to a friend who is thinking about this topic for the first time. Furthermore, he understands that sanctification is a community project: the local church rightly looms large in Habits of Grace. Carson, Emeritus Professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity Schoolĭavid Mathis has provided us with a gospel-driven, Word-centered, Christ-exalting vision of Christian spiritual practices. But in this case, the means of grace are rightly perceived as gracious gifts and signs that God is at work in us, which increases our joy as we stand on the cusp of Christian freedom under the glories of King Jesus.ĭ.A. If the so-called ‘means of grace’ are laid out as nothing more than duties, the hinge of sanctification is obligation. It is a joy to commend it to you.Īlthough this little book says what many others say about Bible reading, prayer, and Christian fellowship (with two or three others tacked on), its great strength and beauty is that it nurtures my resolve to read the Bible and it makes me hungry to pray. It offers basic instructions to new believers while bringing fresh encouragement to those who have walked with the Lord for many years. Habits of Grace is a powerful guide to the spiritual disciplines. ![]() In fact, the more we grow in grace, the more we realize how little we know of hearing from God, speaking to God, and meditating on God. There is not a Christian in the world who has mastered the spiritual disciplines. ![]()
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