{"id":1006,"date":"2010-01-08T23:38:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T03:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2010-03-09T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T04:20:25","slug":"review-of-the-promise-by-robert-j-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Promise, by Robert J. Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/promise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/promise.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"promise\" width=\"99\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1007\" \/><\/a><em>The Promise<\/p>\n<p>How God Works All Things Together for Good<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Robert J. Morgan<\/p>\n<p>B &#038; H Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008.  211 pages.<\/p>\n<p>This book is an extended meditation on Romans 8:28 &#8212; &#8220;We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to his purpose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The author states that the theme of the book is <em>In Christ, we have an ironclad, unfailing, all-encompassing, God-given guarantee that every single circumstance in life will sooner or later turn out well for those committed to Him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As he says in the introduction:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But consider this:  What if you <em>knew<\/em> it would all turn out well, whatever you are facing?  What if Romans 8:28 really were more than a cliche?  What if it was a certainty, a Spirit-certified life preserver, an unsinkable objective truth, infinitely buoyant, able to keep your head above water even when your ship is going down?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What if it really worked?  What if it <em>always<\/em> worked?  What if there were no problems beyond its reach?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the book is going over this verse, phrase by phrase, with life stories and thoughts about what each part of the promise means.  I didn&#8217;t find it particularly surprising or especially profound.  However, this is a very good verse to spend that much time exploring and thinking about!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805446834\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/promise.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/promise.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Promise How God Works All Things Together for Good by Robert J. Morgan B &#038; H Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008. 211 pages. This book is an extended meditation on Romans 8:28 &#8212; &#8220;We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian","category-musings","category-nonfiction-review","category-personal-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}