Kamila Blessing

By Grace Alone

Preaching & Worship

“Harold Ellens' By Grace Alone means to live with abandon--God's abandon, of that inner voice that says we are not good enough. Grace is given without any constraint, and to all. There is the dangerous part of the message: it is given to all humanity of all descriptions, just as they are--whether we like it (or them) or not! To live with God's abandon is to understand that it is God who is our worth and who gives it to everybody without exception, including the direst enemies who yet have no faith in God. Ellens has captured the intent of creation and the intent and outcome of the journey from Eden to the New Jerusalem. We are going to have to give up a lot of presuppositions and prejudices to read and appreciate this book of sermons. But if you can, without throwing it down in rebellion against that dangerous message, the prize at the end is grace, come in person, for you personally. God cannot resist you; can you resist God, as he comes to you through Ellens' soul-challenging sermons?”