Always start with the basics of adding the content of the Foundations Workbook (Biblical Overview and Truths to Remember) to your Loved Bible as outlined in the Getting Started Guide and Getting Started Course.

Dive Deeper Activities

Below are additional activities and resources for deeper learning

Gospel Prayer

• JD Greear wrote a prayer that can be helpful to train your mind in the patterns of the gospel. Write these down on a note card and add to your Bible.
  • “In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.
  • “Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy.”
  • “As You have been to me, so I will be to others.”
  • “As I pray, I’ll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.”
• Parts 1 & 2 lead us inward, helping us ponder and renew our minds in God’s acceptance of us. Part 3 causes us to think about how we should respond to the grace of the gospel. Part 4 helps us to see the world through a gospel lens and moves us to faith.

Take a few minutes and look up the following references from Ephesians. Note how the Gospel brings new life. Write the corresponding notes next to the Scriptures.

(Eph 2:4) “We were dead in sin,” but now we are “alive with the Messiah.”

(Eph 2:13) We were separated from Christ, but now in Christ Jesus we “have been brought near.”

(Eph 2:19) We were “foreigners,” but now we are “fellow citizens.”

(Eph 4:20-24) We were darkened in understanding, but now we have “learned about the Messiah.” We have put off the “old self” and put on the “new self.”

(Eph 5:8) We were “darkness” but now we are “light in the Lord.”

Tony Merida, Christ-Centered Exposition of Ephesians

Books 

• The Gospel by Ray Ortlund
• Preaching the Gospel to Yourself by The Daily Grace Co.
• Gospel Formed by J.A. Medders
• The Gospel: The 90 Day devotional by J.D. Greear

Blogs and articles

• 3 Ways Gospel Centrality Shapes Our Everyday Lives by Newton Chilingulo
• What does it mean to be rooted in the gospel? by Jen Oshman
• 3 Things the Gospel Isn’t by Jared Wilson
• The Gospel Shows Us What Creation Cannot: God’s Love by JD Greear
• Why Christians Need to Hear the Gospel Everyday by Cameron Smart
• 3 Ways the Gospel Encourages Weary Christians by Jared Wilson

Podcasts/Video

• The Gospel: One Chapter At A Time is a free resource from Paul Tripp, in which he summarizes each book of Scripture in a brief video segment and reveals how it points back to Jesus Christ

Music

• Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery 
• Glorious Grace 
• Christ is Risen
• In Christ Alone 
• It is Finished 
• God our Rescuer
• This is Amazing

Quotes and Graphics