Gillian Ford

Yesu Wongeyeho Ubusa: Yesu + 0 (Kirwaryanda Translation) Gillian Ford

Publisher Marketing: JESUS PLUS NOTHING is another way of saying JESUS ONLY. This is a devotional book that discusses some of the main salvation ideas. Too often the gospel of righteousness by faith is missing in church sermons, and yet it is the subject Christians and non-Christians most need to hear about. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eve, they sinned against God and led the whole world into rebellion. We are subsequently all born sinners. Sin, transgression, iniquity are different terms for wrong doing, and vary in meaning from 'missing the mark' and 'falling short of God's righteousness' to blatantly breaking God's law. In God's sight we are all level on Judgement Day. In the Old Testament God made covenants with various individuals-Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and also with the nation Israel. The prophet Jeremiah predicted the day would come when God would make a new covenant. This covenant was made with the sinless Christ. During the Lord's Supper, Christ told that the bread represented his body that would be given for us, and the wine represented the blood of his covenant. Through Christ's life and death God could show his steadfast love (grace and mercy) towards sinners. Christ lived a sinless life and died an atoning death (which the Reformers saw as the passive and active sides of salvation). Both of these are placed to the account of the one who believes in Christ's finished work for him. Contributor Bio:  Ford, Gillian Gillian Ford is a Master of History student who lives in Caloundra, Queensland, on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. She was born in Northampton, England, and emigrated with her family to Christchurch, New Zealand in 1961. In 1964 she went to NSW, Australia to attend college, where she met her future husband, Dr Desmond Ford. Her husband Desmond is a minister, teacher, author and educator. They married in 1970, subsequently living in Altrincham, Cheshire, where Desmond obtained a PhD from Manchester University before returning to Australia. In 1977, they moved to California where they lived for 23 years until their return to Queensland. Gillian has three stepchildren: Elenne Ford Lohrisch, and Paul and Luke Ford. Gillian was a hormonal health educator from about 1982 until 2002 and most recently worked with Dr. Robert Fredericks of Reno, Nevada for about four years. She wrote her book What's Wrong With My Hormones? which was expanded and published in 1997 as Listening to Your Hormones. Gillian retired as a health educator when she returned to Australia and went to university where she completed a graduate certificate in health informatics and a graduate diploma in local, family and applied history, before working on her Master of History at the University of New England.