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For anyone wanting to live and love like Jesus
This honest book outlines strategies for getting goodness, kindness and beauty back
You'll learn a new and more peaceful way of living and loving
Anna Hockley
Eden Christian Books Specialist
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
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!
Introduction
Part 1 – The Problems that Hinder Love
Chapter 1 — Trauma – The Stories Beneath Us
Loving well requires the patient exploration of the stories beneath us—ours and our neighbors.
Chapter 2 — Defensiveness
The polarization in our world has led to an inability for many to remain present with others, because we don’t have the tools to
remain present with ourselves.
Chapter 3 — Powers and Principalities
The forces that keep us from loving well are not just found within us, or in places our eyes can see.
Part 2 – Interior Pathways of Love
Chapter 4 — Prayer
Prayer is to be the place where love is nurtured. It’s an act that is to envelop us in loving union with God, which enables us to
externalize that love to others.
Chapter 5 – Humility
Humility—often regarded as the most important virtue—is indispensable to cultivate love.
Chapter 6 – Empathy
This chapter will explore one of the most powerful forces to grow in love—empathy.
Part 3 – Exterior Practices of Love
Chapter 7 — Grace and Truth
Loving well requires us to faithfully wrestle with the dualities of life—in particular, the holding together of grace and truth.
Chapter 8 — Forgiveness
The way of Jesus offers us a vision of love that is most profoundly demonstrated in forgiveness.
Chapter 9 — Justice: loving well in public
Loving well in the way of Jesus is not restricted to our private worlds. It is to find its way in the larger, public dimensions of human
life
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Villodas Rich
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Published
July 2022
Weight
341g
Page Count
240
Dimensions
14 x 21 x 1.6 cm
ISBN
9780525654414
ISBN-10
0525654410
Eden Code
5630812
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