Publisher Description
In How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home, Dr. Derek W. H. Thomas explores Romans 8, which he calls the best chapter in the Bible. Here he finds an exposition of the steps through which God leads His people in the process of their salvation, but also loving counsel on such topics as prayer and resisting the Devil, as well as exhortations and comforts for weary pilgrims. Dr. Thomas begins at Romans 8:1 with the best news imaginable believers just and deserved condemnation before God has been taken away by Jesus Christ s work on the cross. He then contrasts earthly minded and spiritually minded people, showing that only those who are spiritually minded know life.In Romans 8:29 30, he explores several steps in the process of salvation foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, and, finally, glorification which show God s invincible purpose in redemption. Finally, he unfolds the powerful promise of the final few verses of Romans 8 nothing can separate those God has redeemed from His saving love. How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home is a powerful exploration of the manifold gifts the heavenly Father has lavished upon His people and a preview of the greater inheritance that lies ahead.
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About Derek W. H. Thomas
Dr.
Derek W. H. Thomas is the associate minister at First
Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and an adjunct professor of
systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is a council member of
the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, where he also serves as editorial
director, and is the editor of Reformation
21, the Alliance’s online magazine. A native of Wales, Dr. Thomas graduated
from RTS in 1978 then pastored for seventeen years in Belfast, Northern
Ireland. He earned his PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter. He served as
the minister of teaching at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi,
before his call to Columbia. The author of numerous books, his other interests
include the music of Anton Bruckner, Richard Wagner, and Gustav Mahler. Dr. Thomas and his wife, Rosemary, have two
adult children and two grandchildren.