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Chapters 8 and 9 of Future Grace focus on the promises of Romans 8, a chapter of scripture that is most precious to John Piper because “it abounds with promises of future grace [and] shows me [John Piper] the solid logic of heaven that makes the most far-reaching promise of future grace as firm as…

Future Grace: Chapter 7 Every sinner who comes to God in Christ, with all his needs, finds God coming to him in Christ, with all his promises. Faith in Jesus Christ’s finished work on our behalf is the foundation of all God’s grace — past, present, and future. God has made many great and precious…

Fighting Pride with Faith in Future Grace This chapter is the second of eight practical chapters which address how we fight specific sins with faith in future grace. This one is about pride. It makes sense to deal with this one early in the book. Pride is “the root of every act of distrust toward…

God is Free and He Gives Grace Freely We’ve read about past grace. We’ve come to terms and wrapped our minds around future grace. We understand now that all of the Christian life is founded on past grace and depends on future grace. In this chapter, Piper must put down another layer of foundation. This…

All the expectations of God are future expectations. –John Piper Our pastor begins our corporate worship times with a prayer asking for God’s grace to be with us for the next hour and a half. He prays specifically that the Lord would be gracious to help us to worship with our whole hearts and minds,…