Living Scripture: The Guidance of God on the Journey of LifeWhere can we find truly inspiring models of leadership, friendship, creativity, and humanity to guide and motivate us today? How can we deal constructively with human shortcomings that continually trouble our world? Reflecting on 29 well-known biblical characters "including Moses, Abraham, Bathsheba, Naomi, Pontius Pilate, and Jesus himself" Herbert Driscoll shows how their strivings to live wisely, fully, and joyfully have timeless relevance for us. In our daily struggles with faith and wilderness, self-worth and failure, courage and guilt, power and weakness, we share much with our biblical ancestors. Learning from their journeys with God can deeply enrich our own spiritual journey. |
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... holy scriptures to be written for our learning . " While this state- ment is certainly true , we may sometimes feel like asking the question , " Learning what ? " I have always felt that an answer to this question can be given in fairly ...
... holy people utterly unlike us who have become flattened and one - dimensional in between its pages . Of course , they wore different clothes and lived in differ- ent houses - some in no houses at all - but otherwise they wrestled with ...
... Holy Spirit . It follows that we should expect examples of intuitive leaps in holy scripture . The apostle Peter suddenly finds himself in a situation for which there is no neat plan , no book of rules to which he can refer . He is also ...
... Holy Spirit ? Isaiah is in the same situation as the rest of his people . For the moment he and they are trapped in exile in Babylon . The difference between Isaiah and everyone else is that they be- lieve they are trapped , and Isaiah ...
... enabled by the Spirit to take leaps of discernment and new vision . They are by no means alone in holy scripture . There are others potentially among them- ourselves ! Thinking Creatively 11 A Leap in Faith While Peter was still speaking ,
Contents
Accepting Responsibility | 49 |
The Cost of Integrity | 52 |
A Presence Beyond Panic | 56 |
A Welcoming Community | 60 |
A Lived Commitment | 64 |
Struggling With Our Humanity | 69 |
A Walk in Darkness | 72 |
Realizing SelfWorth | 76 |
Recognizing Loyalty | 36 |
A Serious Commitment | 40 |
A Recipe for Survival | 44 |
A Grace Beyond Failure | 80 |