Recovering Redemption

A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change

Matt Chandler, Michael Snetzer

• Publisher: B&H Books
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781433683893
• Print ISBN:
  9781433683886

You can't. God can. Life never lacks for improvement—in ourselves, in our relationships, in just about everything. But all our brave stabs at getting better, if they ever change anything, are incomplete at best, complete failures at worst. Sometimes much worse. Unless... The gospel of Jesus Christ is the great "unless" of life—both for those who already believe (but can't believe the messes they're still capable of making), as well as those who don't yet believe but just know their way isn't working. Recovering Redemption, written with a pastor's bold intensity and a counselor's discerning insight, takes you deeply into Scripture to take you deeply inside yourself, discovering that the heart of all our problems is truly the problem of our hearts. But because of what God has done, and because of what God can do, the most confident, contented person you know could actually be you —redeemed through Jesus Christ. None of us, really, can do what's required to change our lives for the better, taking what's persistently frustrating and making it perfectly satisfying. Yet as hopeless as that may sound, it is the flat-line truth in which good news comes to life... to your life. For just as what's lost can be found, what's wrong can—even now—be recovered.

Table of contents

• Introduction Cover Versions
• Chapter 1 Good. Gone. Bad.: Genesis, Creation, and Fall
• Chapter 2 Attempted Redemption: A Morality Play in Four Acts
• Chapter 3 Full Recovery: The Gospel of Jesus Christ
• Chapter 4 Struggling Well: True Faith in Real Life
• Chapter 5 The Benefits of Belief: Justification and Adoption
• Chapter 6 Turn Here: The Navigation of Sanctification
• Chapter 7 The Perfect Storm: Guilt, Shame, and Aftershocks
• Chapter 8 God Is Great, God Is Good: Fighting Fear and Anxiety
• Chapter 9 Keep On Tugging: Pulling Up Roots, Putting Down Stakes
• Chapter 10 Go in Peace: Reconciling and Amending
• Chapter 11 Feel the Heartburn: Confronting and Forgiving
• Chapter 12 Pleasure Seekers: Persevering in the Pursuit of Joy
• Epilogue Making Much of His Name
• Acknowledgments
• Notes