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Jesus didn’t let that one slide. As feisty as he was tender, he responded with a fascinating claim about who their “father” actually was: Nobody knows where the West will go in the years to come. The smartest people can only guess. But this could be our finest hour. We could be days away from a sweeping renewal across the Western church. It’s happened before, at the moment it was least likely. It could happen again.” (p. 240) Practicing the Way is a fresh invitation to apprenticeship and a guide for a more embodied faith. Through rhythms like Sabbath, Prayer, Solitude, and other everyday practices from the life of Jesus, we can begin to reshape our unformed selves and experience the fullness of a life with God. The future is ancient.
John Mark Comer wrote the book Live No Lies to give us tools to overcome the three enemies of our souls: the world, the flesh, and the devil. Joshua Branham gives his top 10 quotes from this important book.The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World Certainly everyone can see how ideology and arguments over what is true and false have wreaked havoc in the western world in the the last few years. As Comer puts it— “It’s a war between truth and lies.” The devil is on a disinformation campaign.
Self is the new God, the new spiritual authority, the new morality. But this puts a crushing weight on the self—one it was never designed to bear. It must discover itself. Become itself. Stay true to itself. Justify itself. Make itself happy. Perform and defend its fragile identity.” (p. 118)Love is the desire not to take but to give. It’s the settled intention of the heart to promote good in the life of another.”
In other words, people need to consider their actions carefully. This is especially true when an action is repeated and becomes a habit. One way to think about temptation is to see all temptation as the appeal to believe a lie, to believe an illusion about reality.” The final book in C.S. Lewis’s acclaimed science fiction Space Trilogy, which follows Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. And in this sweeping craze, so many people have been taken captive to ideology, which is a form of idolatry. A growing number of people are more loyal to their ideology or political party than they are to Jesus and his teachings. I feel this tug in my own heart, and we must resist it. It takes us into territory outside the kingdom of God and demagnetizes our moral compass, pointing us in a direction that does not lead to life and peace.” Each part of the book ends with what Comer calls a step sheet, basically a list of definitions and summary points. The epilogue focuses on self-denial in an age of self-fulfilment and there is also an appendix on the monastic handbook of Evagrius, mentioned earlier.
Having previously reviewed ' The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry' by this author, I was keen to see what his latest book had to offer, and I was not disappointed. How not to lose your soul
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