The Gentle and Lowly podcast is a 14-day audio devotional exploring the heart of Christ for sinners and sufferers. This specific word lowly is generally translated “humble” in the New Testament, such as in James 4:6: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble .”. Your anguish is his home. Reading this book will cause your heart to stir with a desire to come to Christ and commune with Him, despite your sin and suffering. Scholars will note the importance Scripture places upon the human heart. Readers will quickly note that each chapter orbits around various quotations and ideas drawn from Puritans such as Goodwin, Richard Sibbes, and John Bunyan, as well as other voices from church history like Jonathan Edwards. Jesus said he is 'gentle and lowly in heart.' 12. Title: Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers - eBook By: Dane C. Ortlund Format: DRM Free ePub Vendor: Crossway Publication Date: 2020 ISBN: 9781433566165 ISBN-13: 9781433566165 Stock No: WW106248EB So go to him. The minimum bar to be enfolded into the embrace of Jesus is simply: open yourself up to him. Your very burden is what qualifies you to come. 100 points earns a £2.50 voucher. For all his resplendent glory and dazzling holiness, his supreme uniqueness and otherness, no one in human history has ever been more approachable than Jesus Christ. So go to him. It is all he needs. The Greek word translated “gentle” here occurs just three other times in the New Testament: in the first beatitude, that “the meek” will inherit the earth (Matt. This book has many immediate applications for biblical counseling. Jesus isn’t like you. Join Dane Ortlund—author of 'Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers'—each d Humble. Take my yoke upon you. Here are a few quotes which demonstrate Ortlund’s pastoral tone toward this topic: “When you come to Christ for mercy and love and help in your anguish and perplexity and sinfulness, you are going with the flow of his own deepest wishes, not against them” (p. 38). Not harsh, reactionary, easily exasperated. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”. “For those united to him, the heart of Jesus is not a rental; it is your new permanent residence. Matthew 11:29 New King James Version (NKJV). Gentle. Over 18% off RRP. Biblical counselors will benefit personally from exploring the themes presented in this work. The meaning of the word “lowly” overlaps with that of “gentle,” together communicating a single reality about Jesus’s heart. “Whatever is crumbling all around you in your life, wherever you feel stuck, this remains, un-deflectable: his heart for you, the real you, is gentle and lowly. The Heart of Christ . Dane C. Ortlund (PhD, Wheaton College) is chief publishing officer and Bible publisher at Crossway. Meek. gospel-centered, Bible-centered content. This book reflects on these words, opening up a neglected yet central truth about who he is for sinners and sufferers today. Hardcover – 7 April 2020. by. 4:23). Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers. Understanding. As a sinner and a suffer, I was consistently left in awe of Christ’s love toward me, and I was exposed to how often I instinctively feel distanced from God’s love in my sin and suffering. We find this truth in Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 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