A Wakeful Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Wakeful Faith write by J. Marshall Jenkins. This book was released on 2000-02-01. A Wakeful Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the harried, expect-the-unexpected flow of everyday life, faith seems far away for many people. Your car breaks down. The bills are due. The kids need school supplies. The business report remains unwritten. In A Wakeful Faith, Jenkins asserts that living awake to God in all of our daily affairs is the answer. Only when we become consciously aware of God's gracious activity in the details of the day can we transform and find purpose in our lives today. "Each day brings a flood of demands for our time and attention," writes Jenkins. "Deep down, many of us feel the pace is killing us, but we do not admit it very often. After all, everyone else seems to get along okay. Something is killing us, but it is not the pace. It is the inattention to our deepest desire, the desire for God." Filled with humor and grounded in scripture, A Wakeful Faith calls us to a refreshed sense of God's presence, which can lead to spiritual well-being in all dimensions of life. Jenkins offers practical suggestions to rouse our spiritual wakefulness and alertness to God in daily living by showing how Jesus trained disciples to perceive the kingdom and to know God. Appropriate for individuals and small groups, A Wakeful Faith contains questions for reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter.
Watch
Watch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Watch write by Rick James. This book was released on 2017-01-01. Watch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To be asleep is to be oblivious to being oblivious. The danger of sleep is the danger of carbon monoxide: it’s colorless and odorless, and you’re anesthetized before you know it—before you ever hit the floor. And for the follower of Jesus, it’s just as dangerous—because the Christian who is “asleep” is spiritually unreceptive. If anything will be our undoing, sleep will. In this thoughtful, engaging, challenging book, Rick James dives deep into the New Testament’s teachings on spiritual wakefulness, calling Christ-followers to defy the darkness and remain awake as they await Christ’s return. Because being awake—continually in prayer, watchful for God’s will, expectant of open doors, cautious of sin, desiring to serve, eager to repent, continuously giving thanks, willing to witness, embracing of humility, overflowing with kindness, persevering in obedience—changes everything.
Gospel Wakefulness (Foreword by Ray Ortlund)
Gospel Wakefulness (Foreword by Ray Ortlund) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gospel Wakefulness (Foreword by Ray Ortlund) write by Jared C. Wilson. This book was released on 2011-10-06. Gospel Wakefulness (Foreword by Ray Ortlund) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We may know the gospel. We may believe it—even proclaim it. But we also may assume the gospel and become lethargic. In this book Jared Wilson seeks to answer the central question, how do we experience and present the gospel in a fresh, nonroutine way in order to prevent ourselves and others from becoming numb? His answer may be surprising: "by routinely presenting the unchanging gospel in a way that does justice to its earth-shaking announcement." We don't excite and awaken people to the glorious truths of the gospel by spicing up our worship services or through cutting-edge, dramatic rhetoric, but by passionately and faithfully proclaiming the same truths we have already been given in Scripture. Wilson's book will stir churches to live out the power of the gospel with a fervent, genuine zeal. After an explanation of the term "gospel wakefulness," Wilson unpacks implications for worship, hyper-spirituality, godly habits, and sanctification, as well as other aspects of church life. Pastors, church leaders, and all in ministry, especially those who are tired or discouraged, will be uplifted, emboldened, and empowered by this book.
Fully Awake and Truly Alive
Fully Awake and Truly Alive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fully Awake and Truly Alive write by Jane Elizabeth Vennard. This book was released on 2013. Fully Awake and Truly Alive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fulfill the reality that the glory of God is the human fully alive. "Reverend Vennard is fearlessly awake to the wild dance of life. Rather than sleeping through life, she awakens to it. Rather than escaping from reality, she embraces it. Rather than distracting herself with a life to come, she dares to live the life that is. And she wants you to do all this as well. Read this book. Live this book. Wake up." --from the Foreword In a culture enthralled with technology, striving and speed, people of many faith traditions and no faith tradition long to slow down, pay attention and wake up to the present moment. They want help in realizing their hope that they can become more truly alive. This engaging and highly readable book offers you guidance for the journey. Sharing stories from her personal life as a spiritual seeker and from her professional career as a retreat leader, spiritual director and teacher, Reverend Jane Vennard illustrates the joys and frustrations of spiritual practice, offers insights from various religious traditions, and provides step-by-step exercises and meditations to practice: Caring for the body - Rest - Silence Solitude - Letting go - Community - Hospitality - Service - Living gratefully
Putting on the Wakeful One
Putting on the Wakeful One - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Putting on the Wakeful One write by Shaun Lambert. This book was released on 2016. Putting on the Wakeful One available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shaun Lambert presents the Jesus of Mark's gospel as Sage, Seer, and Storyteller. Going right to the heart of what it means to be a disciple, he discusses key transformational practices that enable us to put on the attributes of Jesus so that we can become wakeful and watchful followers.
