Life-transformation does not come out of nowhere—and we cannot achieve it by ourselves. It only comes through the power of the gospel. Having told us how we need to live, Paul now reminds of why and how this is possible.
I didn’t expect to enjoy John Mark Comer’s Practicing the Way as much as I did. I had heard Comer preach a sermon against Augustine and John Calvin’s view of God’s sovereignty, affirm that God limits the power of his will so that not everything happens according to God’s control, and observed him citing positively authors like Gregory Boyd and David Bentley Hart which made me wonder at Comer’s private theological views as well. Yet for all of my negative appraisals or suspicions I had going into Practicing the Way, I found myself enjoying the book and recognizing why Comer...
