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Many Christians wonder what the Christian life is all about. They hear about “grace” but struggle to rightly understand it, much less live it. They are taught about God, but their vision of him does not always reflect the full biblical portrait of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. When this happens Christians struggle to know the ways of God and how to joyfully participate in his work.

The God Who Gives provides a compelling vision of Christian faith and life, helping readers discover the uniqueness of the gospel – that God’s kingdom comes not by taking, but by giving – God gives Himself! We are invited into the fullness of life that can only come through the gift of God’s divine generosity.

Taking readers through the grand biblical narrative of creation, fall, redemption, and kingdom author Kelly M. Kapic helps us see our story in and through the story of Scripture. He shows that everything belongs to God, and yet because of our turning and taking from him we experience a kind of suffocating bondage to sin. So how does God reclaim us? God gives again. The God who gave in creation restores by recreating us through his Son and by his Spirit. The kingdom of God is an overflowing measure of divine generosity that we are invited to participate in.

The God Who Gives calls readers to discover that the whole Christian story is founded upon the Triune God’s self-giving and our belonging to God. Fully embracing this truth changes how we view God, ourselves, and the world. Living in God’s gifts, we are freed to give ourselves and truly experience life.

The ‘Holy Spirit’ is a classic expository study of the person and work of the Holy Spirit. First, the Spirit is presented as the Third Person of the Trinity: definitely a Person and not a mystical spiritual “force.” As part of who He is, His deity, titles, and covenant-offices are examined. Then, the work of the Holy Spirit is presented in relation to Christ: always to glorify
Christ and manifest Him to the believer, in both objective and subjective aspects of His ministry. In salvation: regeneration, quickening, enlightening to truth, convicting of sin, comforting instead of self-comfort, drawing to faith (and in fact granting faith), ending in spiritual peace and joy. Then the very practical aspects of sanctification: teaching, cleansing from sin (mortification), leading, assuring, interceding, and preserving until Christ returns.

What a many-colored career that was which began amidst the pastoral solitudes of Bethlehem and ended in the chamber where the dying ears heard the blare of the trumpets that announced the accession of Bathsheba’s son! None of the great men of scripture pass through a course of so many changes as David; none of them touched human life at so many points; none of them were so tempered and polished by swift alternation of heat and cold, by such
heavy blows and the friction of such rapid revolutions. These quick transitions of fortune, and this wide experience, are the many-colored threads from which the rich web of his psalms is woven.

The 2019 Lent Book is a stirring meditation on God’s humility.

In one of the most moving stories of Christian literature, Augustine describes himself as sitting in turmoil, knowing that his current way of life had become untenable and was making him ill, because he could find no resting place for his heart and mind. As he sat sobbing in the garden, he heard the voice of children, as though playing a game in another part of the garden. The children’s voices were crying, “Pick up and read it, pick up and read it.” Looking around Augustine saw an open copy of scripture and he picked it up and read St Paul’s Letter to the Romans offering a freedom from conflicting desires, through encounter with the living God.

It is not only Augustine who encountered the merciful humility of God. But only God could penetrate Augustine’s armor. As we follow this book through Lent and through the Biblical narrative, what begins to emerge is that God’s merciful humility is the source of life.