The gospel is for you. It is for the person you are now, and it is also for the person you want to become: the person God created you to be.
God is not out to get you. The idea that He doesn't care about you is a lie.
If what Jesus did for you doesn't bring you joy, maybe you don't fully grasp the comprehensive way the gospel saves us and frees us to be what God desires us to be.
Feel stuck in bad habits and sin? God has the answer: regeneration.
Feel like you deserve what you get? That's covered by propitiation.
Think God doesn't want to be with you? God provides reconciliation.
Don't feel like you belong? Through adoption you're part of His family.
Feel like you just will never be good enough? He's all over that dilemma, too, through justification.
These aren't just big words thought up by old theologians long dead and gone. These concepts are real aspects of the gospel Christ secured for you! He wants you enjoy the relationship you have with His Father, right now. You'll want to read this book to find out how!
Or, maybe you think you would have never joined with the Pharisees when Jesus walked the earth. You may not be a different as you think. Better read on to find out!
"Luther said that we should preach the good news to each other lest we become discouraged. That's what Robert Beames has done in Cornered by Grace... and he's done it in such a refreshing, clear and fun way, that this cynical old preacher is going to keep trucking for a long time because of it. Read this book, give it to your friends and, not only that, read it every year. It will encourage and motivate in the only way real encouragement and motivation comes: With the truth spoken through a grid that you can use, apply and live. Then, of course, you can thank me for telling you about it."
-- Steve Brown, author and founder of KeyLife.
"Cornered by Grace is a wonderful explanation of how the grace of the gospel empowers the Christian life. It undermines all the stereotypes about how grace leads to license and, instead, shows us how grace-engendered love for Christ fills us with the desire and strength to serve him." -- Bryan Chapell, author, pastor and former president of Covenant Theological Seminary.
