The Message of Salvation: By God’s Grace, for God’s Glory (The Bible Speaks Today Themes)

by Philip Graham Ryken

Publisher:

Inter-Varsity

, 2001

Overview

This book is about the best news the world has ever heard—the message of salvation. The Bible itself is the word of salvation, the message of grace that glorifies God by persuading sinners to believe in Jesus Christ. Philip Ryken opens up God’s saving message using the Bible’s stories, sermons, letters and poems to explain its own theme of salvation.

Contents

Top Highlights

“To understand God’s answer to humanity’s problem, it is necessary to understand the problem as clearly as possible. Why do we need to be saved? What do we need to be saved from? Why can’t we save ourselves? These questions need to be answered. Yet there is another question that must come first: What are human beings for, anyway? It is only when we know our purpose that we can recognize our problem and begin to seek an answer.” (Pages 17–18)

“Everyone who believes the message of salvation will take his or her place among them. Glory is our destiny.” (Page 268)

“The more sanctified we are, the better we are able to glorify God, and the more glorious we become.” (Page 270)

“We are chosen by God the Father, in Christ the Son, through God the Holy Spirit.” (Page 62)

“It is often pointed out that the fall of Adam and Eve is not simply a story about what happened, but also a story about what happens. The pattern of temptation, sin and shame that we witness in the Garden of Eden is repeated every time a human being disobeys God. This is no accident, and what accounts for it is the doctrine of original sin. There is a relationship between the sin of our first parents and our own sin. Our sin is rooted in their sin. Their corruption has become our corruption. Thus the universal sinfulness of humanity comes from our fallen human nature, which has been transmitted to us by the first sin of the first man.” (Pages 33–34)

Product Details

• Title: The Message of Salvation: By God’s Grace, for God’s Glory
• Author: Philip Graham Ryken
• Series: The Bible Speaks Today: Bible Themes Series
• Publisher: Inter-Varsity
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 311
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Salvation › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9780851118970, 0851118976
• Resource ID: LLS:BSTTSALVATION
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-01-14T17:15:05Z

About Philip Graham Ryken

Dr. Philip G. Ryken (1966–) has served as the president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, since 2010. He earned degrees from Wheaton College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and a doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Ryken was the senior minister of Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church (where and served previously) for about 15 years before he became the president of Wheaton College. He has been ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.

Ryken has authored over 30 books, including several volumes in the Reformed Expository Commentary, the Crossway Spiritual Growth Collection, and Saved for God's Glory.