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Good and beautiful and kind : becoming whole in a fractured world / Rich Villodas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Colorado Springs : WaterBrook, [2023]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: WaterBrook trade paperback editionDescription: xix, 228 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0525654437
  • 9780525654438
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Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- Part one: The forces behind the fractures. A failure to love; Sin, the fracturing of reality -- The unseen enemy; Living against the powers -- Hindering wounds, holy wounds; Trauma and the hope of the world -- Part two: Walking a better way. The problem of prayer; A contemplative path in a thoughtless age -- Beyond the walls of the false self; Humility and lowering our defenses -- Resisting reactivity; Living as a calm presence in an anxious culture -- Part three: Embodying wholeness. A bridge, not a barrier; Healthy conflict in pursuit of wholeness -- The gift of forgiveness; Honestly breaking the cycle of offense -- Love in public; Justice in the way of Jesus -- Afterword.
Summary: "An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience--from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: Goodness. Beauty. Kindness. These are just words in a world overflowing with evil, ugliness, and meanness. Villodas extends an invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience. He's seen firsthand the soul-level damage in a society fractured by the fault lines of politics, race, religion, public health, and sexuality. He reveals the forces behind the splintering we face, how it's possible to walk a better path, and the essential strategies to embody wholeness. A beautiful life awaits-- rooted deep in the ancient way of Jesus. - adapted from jacket.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

ECPA BESTSELLER . An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience-from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award

"A stunning book with power to reshape our world . . . if we let it."-Glenn Packiam, pastor and author of Blessed Broken Given

We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that's not the world we live in. We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture.

How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls.

Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily.

In Good and Beautiful and Kind , he reveals how...
. These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma.
. We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence.
. The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future-when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus.

Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you...and around you!

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-228).

"An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience--from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award"-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Part one: The forces behind the fractures. A failure to love; Sin, the fracturing of reality -- The unseen enemy; Living against the powers -- Hindering wounds, holy wounds; Trauma and the hope of the world -- Part two: Walking a better way. The problem of prayer; A contemplative path in a thoughtless age -- Beyond the walls of the false self; Humility and lowering our defenses -- Resisting reactivity; Living as a calm presence in an anxious culture -- Part three: Embodying wholeness. A bridge, not a barrier; Healthy conflict in pursuit of wholeness -- The gift of forgiveness; Honestly breaking the cycle of offense -- Love in public; Justice in the way of Jesus -- Afterword.

Goodness. Beauty. Kindness. These are just words in a world overflowing with evil, ugliness, and meanness. Villodas extends an invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience. He's seen firsthand the soul-level damage in a society fractured by the fault lines of politics, race, religion, public health, and sexuality. He reveals the forces behind the splintering we face, how it's possible to walk a better path, and the essential strategies to embody wholeness. A beautiful life awaits-- rooted deep in the ancient way of Jesus. - adapted from jacket.

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