New PDF release: By Grace Alone: Forgiveness for Everyone, for Everything,

those sermons make a robust exegetical and homiletical case, each one established upon particular biblical texts, for the primary biblical declare for God’s radical, unconditional, and common grace to humankind. They deal with numerous topics and texts for traditional Time, with the cause of unusual the reader, preacher, or hearer with a clean and attention-getting viewpoint at the gospel message. This quantity is stuffed with sermons that deal in each case with profound biblical and theological concerns, exegetically grounded in direct interpretation of Scripture texts, and woven jointly in one of these method as to continually carry to the outside the mainstream of the novel grace theology that's the be aware of God all through either the Hebrew Bible (OT) and the Christian Scriptures (NT). That grace theology mainstream runs from Genesis 3:15 to the final bankruptcy of The Revelation of St. John.

“J. Harold Ellens understands tips on how to craft a memorable sermon and the way to consistently have anything new to assert, a brand new perspective of imaginative and prescient, a fantastically advised anecdote from his personal immensely diversified lifestyles adventure. indicates why analyzing sermons desire by no means turn into an old style pastime.”
—David J. A. Clines, Professor Emeritus of religious study, Sheffield University

“As features on a gem demonstrate its hidden attractiveness, so Ellens’s sermons reveal the intensity and wonder of the scriptures when it comes to the seasons of the Christian 12 months. His lengthy profession ready him good to writer this ebook. With the method of a student, the endurance of a instructor, and the knowledge of a pastor, he provides the reader new insights into those widespread scriptures. To learn considered one of his sermons on a wonderful summer time day is to grasp ‘Joy to the area, the Lord is come,’ or to learn one other on an afternoon of serious desire will provide the reader cause to be glad about this book.”
—Beuna Coburn Carlson, retired Church Administrator and Christian Educator, PCUSA

“I have purely truly heard one sermon via J. Harold Ellens, yet examining this excellent assortment jogs my memory why he has lengthy been one in every of my favourite homilists. extra like a talk than a monologue, those sermons instantly pull me into discussion inside myself and with God. learn them and be challenged, influenced, provoked, proficient, and edified. obtain them as medication on your spirit and soul. Be ready to be blessed by way of the Spirit that encouraged them.”
—David G. Benner, writer of Soulful Spirituality and Spirituality and the Awakening Self (website: www.drdavidgbenner.ca)

“Throughout Harold Ellens’s lifestyles he has been referred to as professor, general practitioner, and colonel. but, Ellens is rarely happier than while humans name him pastor. he's a guy who likes to hold forth the excellent news of the Bible, whatever he essentially articulates as grace that's common, unconditional, and radical. but, for Harold, preaching isn't really reserved for the pulpit. His scholars comprehend that God’s grace is accessible to every person, his sufferers recognize that God loves them it doesn't matter what, and the warriors he counsels, directly from the battlefields of Iraq, recognize that God’s grace will get to the very center in their being, and will heal the discomfort in their souls. even if, it's within the conventional surroundings of a church on Sunday morning the place Ellens preaches the message of grace with a craftsmanship honed over sixty years of carrier as a clergyman. All of his sermons are written with love and adventure, and are continuously aesthetic, funny, clever, correct, and existence altering. it's been a excitement to learn this book.”
—Virginia Ingram, Murdoch collage, Perth, Australia

J. Harold Ellens is a famous retired Preacher and Pastor, a retired Chaplain within the US military, and a retired professor of philosophy, religious study, and psychology. he's presently a pastoral counselor and psychotherapist in inner most perform. Of his various courses, he's the writer of Probing the Frontiers of religious study and sincere religion for Our Time.