Thomas, Derek. How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home. Orlando: Reformation Heritage, 2011. 
Hardcover, 157 pages.
You wouldn’t know it exactly by the title, because with a title like. How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home, this book could be about many things, but this work from Derek Thomas is all about Romans 8. Thomas leads the reader through Romans 8 in a step by step manner leaving no verse unexplored while uncovering profound exhortations for God’s people.
This book originated as a series of sermons first preached at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, MS where Thomas ministers. Since they are based upon sermons the language is not overly technical and the flow of the chapters are what you would expect to be consistent with a written sermon. Each chapter is broken up with various headings making it very easy for the reader to keep a steady flow going through the text.
On the whole this book is very helpful for understanding Romans 8. In fact, Thomas calls Romans 8 the “best chapter in the Bible” and you can see his love for it in the pages of this book. If there is anything I didn’t like about this book it certainly was no fault of Thomas’, but that of the publisher. The book doesn’t use footnotes, but end notes. End notes disrupt the flow of reading when you have to flip pages. I’m not sure when publishers will realize that many people hate end notes!
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