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God has given you gifts so you can fulfill His purpose for your life,
but if you're like a lot of people, you may not have recognized your
talents yet. Start asking God to show you something special about the
way He's made you.
To some people, He's given a very tender, compassionate heart, and some
He has wired to lead others effectively. Others, He has given a gift of
being able to communicate clearly, to teach, to make scientific
discoveries, or to write beautiful music. Only you can discover all the
dynamic gifts He's placed in you.
Become Authentically, Uniquely You because God is never going to help
you be anyone but yourself. He loves you just as you are. Let God use
you, with all your strengths and weaknesses, and transform you from the
inside out to do something powerful beyond your wildest dreams.
Women are bombarded with ideas of perfection--and tips for how to
achieve it--every day. From her work to her looks to her parenting,
today's modern woman is expected to strive to be picture perfect in
every way. As a result, calls for authenticity and imperfection are
on the rise. Yet, deep down, most of us still want to achieve
perfection. Why? The desire to be perfect, says Kim Hyland, is
actually a God-given urge. After all, we were made for Eden. But
there is a difference between perfection and perfectionism, which
is our attempt to achieve perfection on our own, by our own
strength, and for our own purposes--the original temptation in the
Garden. In this freeing book, Hyland offers women a stirring
manifesto for acknowledging their limitations and embracing the
perfection of God through his grace. This is a book for every woman
who gives 110% and yet feels shame when one little thing goes
wrong.
Best-selling authors Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo talk
candidly about the life and teaching of Jesus and the wisdom he
offers our fractured world.
For all the Christians facing conflict between Jesus' words and
their own lives; for all the non-Christians who feel they rarely
see Jesus' commands reflected in the choices of his followers; "Red
Letter Revolution" is a blueprint for a new kind of Christianity,
one consciously centered on the words of Jesus, the Bible's "red
letters."
Framed as a captivating dialogue between Shane Claiborne, a
progressive young evangelical, and Tony Campolo, a seasoned pastor
and professor of sociology, "Red Letter Revolution" is a
life-altering manifesto for any Christian. It is a call to a
lifestyle that considers first and foremost Jesus' explicit,
liberating message of sacrificial love.
Shane and Tony candidly bring the words of Jesus to bear
directly on contemporary issues of liturgy, community, Islam, hell,
homosexuality, civil disobedience, and twenty other critical topics
for modern believers. The resulting conversations reveal the
striking truth that Christians guided unequivocally by the words of
Jesus will frequently reach conclusions utterly contrary to those
of mainstream evangelical Christianity.If the Jesus who speaks to
you through the gospels is at odds with the Christian culture you
know, if you have ever wanted to stand up and say "I love Jesus,
but that's not me," "Red Letter Revolution" will prove that you are
not alone--you may have been a Red Letter Christian all along.
Reconcile contains practical ideas for transforming conflict in
everyday life from an internationally renowned mediator, who has
worked in war zones and entrenched conflicts across five
continents. The author challenges Christians to renew their
commitment to reconciliation as the heart of the gospel message.
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