Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan
Crazy Love is one of those books that have deeply impacted me and called me to change my life. Francis Chan calls us to live out the words of Jesus and to quit making excuses for why Jesus didn’t really mean what he said.
The first two [...]
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The Penny: A Novel (Paperback) by Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford
The Penny is about a family of four. The father is physically, emotinally, and sexually abusive. The mother has been beaten and defeated to a point that she never challenges him and escapes everytime the dad abuses the girls. The girls have been abused all [...]
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Contemplative Youth Ministry (Mark Yaconelli 2006)
The idea of being contemplative is that we spend time in prayer, silence, reflection, and listening to God. Yaconelli takes this practice and transfers it to a way of doing ministry. His basic premise is that our ministries should be based on being present to students and listening to them, [...]
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This is from John M Hicks blog. I am more convicted of the need to spend time in silence and solitude and thought he had some great insights to this need and why we resist it.
Shaped in Solitude
Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from [being baptized in] the Jordan River. He was led [...]
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