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Austin Hall Library Reviews “The Kingdom Has Drawn Near”

My digital friend, Bruce Green, has reviewed Sensus Divinitatis’ first book, “The Kingdom Has Drawn Near: Studies In The Gospel Jesus Preached”.  He calls it “a winsome and articulate scriptural defense of the idea that the Kingdom of God referred to in the Bible is a present reality”, and as one who heard the sermons [...]

The Christian has a reason to build culture

This passage pretty well sums up the thrust of The Kingdom Has Drawn Near, and hearing these sermons in person caused a paradigm shift in my thinking.
But – have you thought of this? – Adam would also have loved God just by being a great gardener! I get excited thinking about this. As Adam went [...]

His yoke is easy, His burden is light

Far from being a burden, the commands of God are meant to bring us life.  Pastor Ben Miller, in The Kingdom Has Drawn Near, illuminates:
I remember wrestling as a younger man with the whole “problem” of authority. I have concluded over the course of my life that I do have a problem with authority. I [...]

How seriously do you take God’s rule in your life?

An excerpt from Ben Miller’s book, “The Kingdom Has Drawn Near: Studies In The Gospel Jesus Preached“, from chapter 3, “The Kingdom and the Church”:
The church is not a voluntary society. It is the sphere in which God’s loving, gracious, faithful rule of his people concretely operates through the keys of the Word and sacraments [...]