Furman - Glimpses of Grace

Introduction

. Augustine, Letter 143 To Marcellinus, Letters 211270: Works of Saint Augustine (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2005).

Chapter 1: Todays Forecast

. John Piper, Honoring the Biblical Call of Motherhood, sermon, May 8, 2005.

. Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 1.

. Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of Gods Love (Bemidji, MN: Focus, 2008).

Chapter 2: Dont Smurf the Gospel

. Graeme Goldsworthy, Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2000).

. One such book is Greg Gilberts readable and concise What Is the Gospel? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010).

. Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp, How People Change (Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2008), 5.

. A helpful book to read on this topic is Trevin Waxs Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hope (Chicago, IL: Moody, 2011).

. Wendy Alsup, Practical Theologyfor Women (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008).

. D. A. Carson, What Is the Gospel? in For the Fame of Gods Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper, ed. D. A. Carson, Sam Storms, and Justin Taylor (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010).

. J. Mack Stiles, Marks of the Messenger: Knowing, Living, and Speaking the Gospel (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2010).

. Carson, What Is the Gospel?.

. Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of Gods Love (Bemidji, MN: Focus, 2008).

. Martin Luther on Luke 22:720 (April 1534).

Chapter 4: Christ in You, the Hope of Glory

. Richard Sibbes, Glorious Freedom (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2000).

. Jonathan Edwards, On Efficacious Grace, in The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1974), 2:557; emphasis mine.

. Augustine, Confessions, bk. 10, chap.

Chapter 5: Divine Power and Precious Promises

. Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of Gods Love (Bemidji, MN: Focus, 2008).

Chapter 6: The Bread of Life and Bagels for Breakfast

. Richard Sibbes, The Tender Heart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2000).

Chapter 7: All Grace and All Sufficiency

. D. A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1992).

Chapter 8: He Washes Us White as Snow

. Julia Johnston, Grace Greater Than Our Sin, 1911.

. William Cowper, There Is a Fountain, 1772.

. Robert Lowry, Nothing but the Blood, 1876.

. John Ensor, The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience Gods Grace (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006).

Chapter 9: Gods Abiding Presence in Our Pain

. Martin Luther, quoted in Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel, trans. and ed. Theodore G. Tappert, (Vancouver, BC: Regent College, 2003).

. Bryan Chappell, Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus Name (Ada, MI: Baker, 2005).

Chapter 10: United with Christ but Lonely for Friends

. Deepak Raju, Biblical Counseling Training, Redeemer Church of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 2012.

. Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of Gods Love (Bemidji, MN: Focus, 2008).

Chapter 13: Does Contentment in Christ Come with a Nap?

. Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1964).

. Ibid.

. Burroughs, Rare Jewel.

. For a book that deals thoroughly and biblically with this issue see Staci Eastins The Organized Heart, which is a gospel-centered approach to dealing with the idols in a womans heart. The Organized Heart: A Womans Guide to Conquering Chaos (Adelphi, MD: Cruciform, 2011).

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I know no one who is leveraging her everyday life more for the glory of God than Gloria Furman. I want to learn about God and grace from people who live it and fight to do so. Ive seen my friend do both beautifully. Gloria has taken the bigness of God and laid him into the cracks of the mundane, and somehow the mundane starts to feel big.

Jennie Allen, author, Stuck: The Places We Get Stuck and the God Who Sets Us Free

This is sustaining grace, this is the desired haven: to know his steadfast love that saves and keeps us. Glimpses of Grace is not a how-to. It is a true friends invitation to see and know the Lords steadfast love displayed in every wave, big and small. Gloria offers encouragement rooted in her personal experience and wisdom from saints who have weathered the storms decades and even centuries before us. May you catch glimpses of the Lords steadfast love and find an anchor for your soul.

Lauren Chandler, writer; speaker; singer; wife of Matt Chandler, The Village Church, Flower Mound, Texas

Gloria is real! Shes going to tell you about the smell of her kitchen floor and the steadfast love of her Savior. Jonathan Edwards is right in there with peanut butter sandwiches and sprinkles. The grace this book shows us is no vague idea; its the biblical gospel infusing the stuff of lifethe daily life of a homemaker. Strongly, humbly, and winsomely, this book calls homemakers (and all of us) to walk in faith, connecting with the visible and the invisible.

Kathleen B. Nielson, Director of Womens Initiatives, The Gospel Coalition

Glimpses of Grace is a beautiful picture of what it looks like to see Jesus Christ every day in every circumstance. Our friend Gloria takes the glories of Christs life and opens our eyes to their realities in the seemingly mundane circumstances of our lives. She builds a longing to know more of God and to believe that he is present in all of our work as mothers and wives. Her passion for missions and joy in God is contagious. We are excited to recommend this book to anybody wanting to see the ultimate reality of satisfaction in Christ alone for every day of your life.

Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson, authors, Give Them Grace

We need gospel fuel to joyfully serve our families, and thats what Glimpses of Grace provides. Many days I unload a barrage of law upon my family, when what they need from me is grace, encouragement, and reminders of Gods faithfulness. I thank the Lord for using Gloria to point me to the glorious gospel of his grace so that I might extend the same grace to my husband and children. As homemakers we can be smothered by the ordinary, blinded by the mundane, living in a fog of routine and fatigue, unable to see how to clean messy noses or break up sibling squabbles for the glory of God. In Glimpses of Grace Gloria helps to lift the fog by showing us how the gospel can change our perspective as we serve and love our families.

Kristie Anyabwile, homemaker; mom; wife of Thabiti Anyabwile, First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman

Every homemaker, every mother, every woman, has experienced the disconnect between what she knows and what she feels, between knowing that what she is doing is good and the reality that it is exasperating and seems unfulfilling. In Glimpses of Grace Gloria Furman brings the gospel to bear on a womans distinct calling. With precision and grace she shows that the good news of all that Jesus Christ accomplished, when properly understood and carefully applied, will transform the way a woman carries out the task the Lord has given her.