The Donkey Who Carried a King by RC Sproul
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Encounters with Jesus can affect people in so many ways. In our own day there are people that use Jesus’ teachings to as permission to hate other people, to burden people with requirements on how they should live, and some reject him either quietly or sometimes loudly. Even when Jesus walked on the earth people felt much the same way as they came for healing, for blessing, or to curse and eventually plot to kill him.
RC Sproul tells a story of Davey, a little donkey who had a unique encounter with Jesus. Even though he was passed by for other important jobs, Davey was picked to be the one for Jesus to ride into Jerusalem as king on Palm Sunday. On going back home, however, Davey decided that he did not need to do his regular work because he was special enough to carry a king.
This book presents a simple, yet challenging story of the life of the Christian. Even though we have been chosen for salvation, we have also been given work to do, and any work assigned by the king is kingly work and should be done in his honor. Davey learns this valuable lesson by witnessing the life of Jesus firsthand and we can learn from his experience and by the witness of the Bible:
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.
Colossians 3:23
With warm and vibrant pictures, Sproul tells Davey’s story that intersects with Christ’s during Holy Week, but it is not overtly an Easter story. Share this book with your children any time of the year to help them learn the value of their everyday lives in service to God who loves them enough to send his Son to take their place.
Note: a copy of this book was provided by the publisher for review. No obligation was given to give the book a positive review; all views expressed are my own and not influenced by the publisher.
Review: Mark: a Commentary by RC Sproul
Mark: Saint Andrews Expositional Commentary by R.C. Sproul
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Four stories about Jesus and this is the oldest. It is also the quickest since every event in Jesus’ life seems to have happened immediately after the last. Yet what sets this account apart is that it speaks dramatically of Christ’s authority and the draw that he had as people heard and felt the weight of that connection to the Father.
In his signature style, R.C. Sproul present this full exposition of the gospel account with Christ’s authority as its central theme. His accessible discourse provides a look at the gospel nearly verse by verse as he not only talks about the passage itself, but connects it with the rest of the book and its significance to the life of Christ and our foundational belief as Christians.
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