Good and Beautiful and Kind

2023-07-11
Good and Beautiful and Kind

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  • Author: Rich Villodas
  • Publisher: WaterBrook
  • ISBN: 0525654437
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

ECPA BESTSELLER • An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience—from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award “A stunning book with power to reshape our world . . . if we let it.”—Glenn Packiam, pastor and author of Blessed Broken Given We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that’s not the world we live in. We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture. How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls. Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily. In Good and Beautiful and Kind, he reveals how… • These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma. • We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence. • The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future—when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus. Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you…and around you!

The Deeply Formed Life

2021-08-31
The Deeply Formed Life

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  • Author: Rich Villodas
  • Publisher: WaterBrook
  • ISBN: 0525654402
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

During our chaotic times, discover five forgotten values that can spark internal growth and help us reconcile our Christian faith with the complexities of race, sexuality, and social justice. WINNER OF THE CHRISTIANITY TODAY BOOK AWARD Most believers live in the state of “being a Christian” without ever being deeply formed by Christ. Our pace is too frenetic to be in union with God, and we don’t know how to quiet our hearts and minds to be present. Our emotions are unhealthy and compartmentalized. We feel unable to love well or live differently from the rest of the world—to live as people of the good news. New York pastor Rich Villodas says we must restore balance, focus, and meaning for our souls. The Deeply Formed Life lays out a fresh vision for spiritual breakthrough following five key values: • Contemplative Rhythms Value: slowing down our lives to be with God. • Racial Justice Value: examining a multi-layered approach to pursuing racial justice and reconciliation. • Interior Examination Value: looking beneath the surface of our lives to live free and love well. • Sexual Wholeness Value: exploring how our sexuality connects with our spirituality. • Missional Presence Value: living as the presence of Christ in a broken world. The Deeply Formed Life is a roadmap to live in the richly rooted place we all yearn for: a place of communion with God, a place where we find our purpose. Praise for The Deeply Formed Life “The Deeply Formed Life is a book for our time. Honest, wise, insightful, funny, and—above all—deep. The way Rich and New Life Fellowship hold emotional health and racial justice together is beyond inspiring. This is spiritual formation for the future of the church.”—John Mark Comer, pastor of teaching and vision at Bridgetown Church and author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry “I’ve studied the Bible under Pastor Rich’s leadership for close to a decade. The core values he shares in this book serve as guidance, not only for how we should live as Christians in an ever-changing world but also for how we can live a life of purpose—that consistently and enthusiastically points to Jesus.”—Susan Kelechi Watson, actress from the awardwinning television series This Is Us

A Beautiful Kind of Love

2015-04-15
A Beautiful Kind of Love

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  • Author: Ellie Wade
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781508952190
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Every choice has a consequence.I believe in soul mates. Why? Because I have one and his name is Jax Porter.I have known Jax my whole life and I have loved him with every breath I've ever taken. The fact that we were born a mere month apart to mothers that are best friends has made us inseparable since birth.What we have is so rare, one would think our story would be written, our fate sealed. But, unfortunately that's not how life works. Life offers us many choices that can turn destiny into chance.I now find myself heading toward a destination that I could have never imagined and I have to figure out where to go from here. Will the choices that have been made change our path forever or will fate find its way?***This book is intended for readers 18+ due to sexual content.***This is book one in a two-part series.

The Good and Beautiful God

2009-12-14
The Good and Beautiful God

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  • Author: James Bryan Smith
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 0830878343
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

Turning to the Gospels, James Bryan Smith invites you to compare your ideas about God with what Jesus himself reveals about his Father. In this Good and Beautiful Series book, Smith leads you through a process of spiritual formation that includes activities aimed at making these new narratives real in your body and soul as well as your mind.

Queen Hildegarde

1889
Queen Hildegarde

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  • Author: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
  • Publisher: IndyPublish.com
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

Be Kind

2018-02-06
Be Kind

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  • Author: Pat Zietlow Miller
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 1626723214
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 37

A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.

In Defense of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful

2021-11-19
In Defense of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful

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  • Author: Jordan Cooper
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781952295539
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

2016-08-09
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

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  • Author: Bryn Greenwood
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 1250074134
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 353

"Struggling to raise her little brother Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star-gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery"--

The Best Kind of Beautiful

2020-11-24
The Best Kind of Beautiful

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  • Author: Frances Whiting
  • Publisher: Pan
  • ISBN: 9781760788315
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
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The Beautiful Bureaucrat

2015-08-11
The Beautiful Bureaucrat

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  • Author: Helen Phillips
  • Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
  • ISBN: 1627793771
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2015 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by Time Out, Bustle, The Atlantic, Electric Literature, Kobo, Kirkus and more... "Riveting... thrillerlike...drolly surreal...Ultimately, The Beautiful Bureaucrat succeeds because it isn't afraid to ask the deepest questions." The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice "A joyride..." -Karen Russell NAMED A MUST READ OF THE SUMMER by the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Bustle, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, HelloGiggles and more... A young wife's new job pits her against the unfeeling machinations of the universe in a first novel Ursula K. Le Guin hails as "funny, sad, scary, beautiful. I love it." In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers into something known only as The Database. After a long period of joblessness, she's not inclined to question her fortune, but as the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings-the office's scarred pinkish walls take on a living quality, the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls. When one evening her husband Joseph disappears and then returns, offering no explanation as to his whereabouts, her creeping unease shifts decidedly to dread. As other strange events build to a crescendo, the haunting truth about Josephine's work begins to take shape in her mind, even as something powerful is gathering its own form within her. She realizes that in order to save those she holds most dear, she must penetrate an institution whose tentacles seem to extend to every corner of the city and beyond. Both chilling and poignant, The Beautiful Bureaucrat is a novel of rare restraint and imagination. With it, Helen Phillips enters the company of Murakami, Bender, and Atwood as she twists the world we know and shows it back to us full of meaning and wonder-luminous and new.