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We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is.
For the majority of people, sorrow, despair, anxiety, and mental
illness are everyday experiences. While we have made tremendous
advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still
comes down to mundane choices that we each must make-like the daily
choice to get out of bed. In this deeply personal essay, Alan Noble
considers the unique burden of everyday life in the modern world.
Sometimes, he writes, the choice to carry on amid great
suffering-to simply get out of bed-is itself a powerful witness to
the goodness of life, and of God.
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention "You are your
own, and you belong to yourself." This is the fundamental
assumption of modern life. And if we are our own, then it's up to
us to forge our own identities and to make our lives significant.
But while that may sound empowering, it turns out to be a crushing
responsibility-one that never actually delivers on its promise of a
free and fulfilled life, but instead leaves us burned out,
depressed, anxious, and alone. This phenomenon is mapped out onto
the very structures of our society, and helps explain our society's
underlying disorder. But the Christian gospel offers a strikingly
different vision. As the Heidelberg Catechism puts it, "I am not my
own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to
my faithful Savior Jesus Christ." In You Are Not Your Own, Alan
Noble explores how this simple truth reframes the way we understand
ourselves, our families, our society, and God. Contrasting these
two visions of life, he invites us past the sickness of
contemporary life into a better understanding of who we are and to
whom we belong.
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I Love You Daddy (Hardcover)
Alan Noble; Illustrated by Kathrine Gutkovskiy
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I Love You Daddy (Paperback)
Alan Noble; Illustrated by Kathrine Gutkovskiy
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What if You Fly? (Hardcover)
Alan Noble; Illustrated by Kathrine Gutkovskiy
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What if You Fly? (Paperback)
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2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year - Accessible Theology 2018
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Publishers Weekly starred review We
live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in
Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits-and
devices-that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection
and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian
philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age"-an age in which
all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and
less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how
these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too
often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result
has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns
of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherently
disruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to
expose the fertile earth below. In this book Noble lays out
individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our
society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the
transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. Disruptive Witness casts a
new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from
abstraction and cliche to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel
for our day.
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