Beholding

Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 285min

Lent is a time in the yearly Christian calendar when we mourn our sin and let go of worldly things that keep our hearts from experiencing God more fully. But how do we reevaluate and recalibrate the values of our hearts to match those of our suffering savior?In this 40-day Lenten devotional, best-selling author Paul David Tripp invites us to set aside time from the busyness of our lives to focus on the suffering and sacrifice of Jesus. Each of the short readings encourages us to abide in the abundant joy found in Christ as we encounter the savior more fully and follow him more faithfully during this Lenten season.“Like so many others, I have benefited richly, and for years, from the ministry and writing of Paul Tripp. This latest work is no exception. Journey to the Cross is a precious reminder - one worth returning to again and again - of not only the rich benefits we receive through Christ’s humiliation, death, and burial, but also of his dignifying invitation to properly lament the wrong that is in the world and the wrong that is within us. The season of Lent is a special, 40-day season to enable and empower God’s people to do just that, and Tripp has provided us with a remarkable roadmap for the journey. I can’t recommend this wonderful resource highly enough.” (Scott Sauls, senior pastor, Christ Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee, and author, Jesus Outside the Lines and a Gentle Answer)“Paul Tripp has once again led us past feel-good platitudes and into focused, Christward reflection. Through tension and tenderness, lament and thanksgiving, the Lenten season will transform us when it leads us to the cross of Christ.” (Ruth Chou Simons, Wall Street Journal best-selling author, Beholding and Becoming and GraceLaced, artist, and founder, GraceLaced Co.) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bevan Greiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233926/bk_acx0_233926_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Are We Sure We Know God? (Rest of the Story) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 515min

Are We Sure We Know God? The question is sometimes answered, "Sure, I know God." And if most children were asked if they know their mommies and daddies, likewise, they might reply, "Yes." And most parents would agree that they do, but only in a child's perspective. Could that be how most of us know God? Since the Bible speaks of knowing God as essential for gaining eternal life, wouldn't it make sense to spend time getting to know Him better? Especially since God's enemy has distorted our view of Him by twisting His requirements into impossibilities. So expect to: Discover an awesome expanded view of the cross. Discover the Good News in the gospel. Discover a reason far above obligation, for choosing God. Discover God's design to win us back to trust His ways. Discover the secret in how to detect truth from error. Discover the words of Acts 16:31 are true. "Believe, Trust in God's ways, and you will be saved." It really is that simple, to become acquainted with God, to prefer and trust in His ways, is the focus of this book. "By beholding Him, we can be changed into wanting to be like Him." With that in mind, come let us reason together, viewing an awesome God. Some of this book is set in a "courtroom scene" to compare differences in theology. Formatted to use your common sense and reasoning to what makes the most sense within our belief systems. But I must add that it's very important to think deep into our spiritual, conscience driven sense of rightness. Because who do you suppose would say that we are not to use our common sense and reason when good conscience driven common sense and reason are on God's side? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Don Curtis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001615/bk_acx0_001615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Bittersweet

The author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals how embracing a bittersweet mindset may hold the key to true connection and help us transcend a culture that's more comfortable with enforced happiness. With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore the riches that a different outlook has to offer our happiness-focused yet torn-apart culture. Western psychology traditionally regards sorrow and longing as maladaptive at best, pathological at worst. We live in a culture that encourages us to telegraph how happy-or, on the flip side, outraged-we are. As a result, our collective empathy is spiraling downward, and we're ill-equipped to deal with our personal troubles. Yet a richer, truer existence is possible. The bittersweet way is the essence of creativity and a shortcut to love. Our artistic and spiritual traditions-amplified by recent scientific research-teach us the power that lies in a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. They recognize that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching TV commercial all have the ability to bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind-and, ultimately, to a greater kinship with our fellow humans. At a time of profound discord, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways. Susan Cain paves the way to an authentic, elevated life that celebrates the conundrum of being alive in a deeply flawed and stubbornly beautiful world.

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