Chasing wisdom : the lifelong pursuit of living well / Daniel Grothe.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 2020Description: xxvi, 209 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781400212484
- 1400212480
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Main Library | NonFiction | 248.4 G881 | Available | 33111009636362 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Teaching pastor at the influential New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Daniel Grothe explains the Bible's blueprint for becoming the kind of person who can deal with all of life's challenges.
Some people have learned how to live. They can handle all that life brings. They are composed. They radiate strength. They are whole, with lives worth emulating, and when they speak people listen. They are, in a word, wise. How did these people get wisdom And perhaps more importantly, how can we
In his long-awaited first book, Daniel Grothe of New Life church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shows us how to get wisdom for ourselves by examining what the Bible has to say about it and by providing practical steps for acquiring it, among them:
learning to ask for help, loving Scripture, going to Church, living quietly, and, above all, seeking those who are themselves wise.Drawing upon Scripture and upon his own experience learning from his friend and mentor Eugene Peterson, Grothe shows how our lives can be secured by the resource that will keep us from collapsing under the onslaught of the difficulties of life. Wisdom is available to us. It takes work to pursue it. Chasing Wisdom reveals how.
Bullet holes and broken hearts -- Learning to ask for help -- Introducing the sages -- Learning to work for wisdom -- The wisdom of loving scripture -- The wisdom of going to church -- The wisdom of a quiet life -- The wisdom of an old library -- The wisdom of rest -- The wisdom of holy lament -- The wisdom of an active life -- Developing a theology of the laying on of hands -- Where we go from here.