CJ Mahaney – Testimony/ Book Review

July 5, 2007 at 3:59 pm · Filed under Bible, Book review, Christianity, Church, Contemporary Theology, God, Looking outside the box

 C.J. Mahaney leads Sovereign Grace Ministries in its mission to establish and support local churches. After 27 years of pastoring Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, C.J. handed the senior pastor role to <!– Joshua Harris –>Joshua Harris on September 18, 2004, allowing C.J. to devote his full attention to Sovereign Grace. He serves on the Council of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and on the board of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. C.J.’s books include Humility: True Greatness; Living the Cross-Centered Life; and Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs to Know. He also contributed to Dear Timothy: Letters on Pastoral Ministry, and to two additional volumes in the Foundations for the Family Series (Crossway).

He has also edited or coauthored four books in the Pursuit of Godliness book series, published by Sovereign Grace Ministries: Why Small Groups?, This Great Salvation, How Can I Change?, and Disciplines for Life.

As a guy whose denomination tends to be very doctrinally oriented, Living the Cross-centered Life is a tremendous breath of gospel fresh air. It’s one thing to give a textbook definition for “justification”, etc. It’s another thing entirely to have one’s heart opened to the implications of Christ’s finished work on the Cross. This book will help you to appreciate and love Christ more. Please read it; cry occasionally; repent; and rise to embrace the Cross of Christ each day of your life. This book will transform you.

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