Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough
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Is there really any hope for a spiritual way of living that actually works?
Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we're all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.
In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change but we can't do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AAs 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for: Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own livesDistinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futileDiscovering how God can do for us what we can't do for ourselves, andliving authentically, joyfully and in communion with God and other people.Ortberg shows us how to discover: Our spiritual attachment stylesOur core doubts The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulnessGod's sufficiency in our inadequacyIn Steps, find what's needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship and a new happiness no matter our circumstances.
Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we're all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.
In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change but we can't do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AAs 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for: Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own livesDistinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futileDiscovering how God can do for us what we can't do for ourselves, andliving authentically, joyfully and in communion with God and other people.Ortberg shows us how to discover: Our spiritual attachment stylesOur core doubts The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulnessGod's sufficiency in our inadequacyIn Steps, find what's needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship and a new happiness no matter our circumstances.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1496447042
ISBN13:9781496447043
Release Date:February 2025
Publisher:Tyndale Refresh
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"
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