Living in the Gap between Promise and Reality, the gospel according to Abraham John Piper This helped make his sermons

This helped make his sermons so compelling and powerful

Starting on Palm Sunday

and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it

receiving the Lord’s Supper

the lessons learned

Living in the Gap between Promise and Reality, the gospel according to Abraham John Piper This helped make his sermonsAll too often we look at our lives and wonder, Is this really how life should be for a Christian? God has made glorious promises to his people in Scripture. Has he failed us when we suffer through sickness, unemployment, broken relationships, recurring sin, or other trials? Those caught in painful, stagnant, or simply unglamorous circumstances find a sympathetic figure in Abraham, who spent years living in the gap between promise and reality. Working