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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... Faith 12 2 . A Larger God 16 3 . A Dream of the Future 20 The Challenge of Leadership 4 . Facing the Wilderness 5. Courage Under Fire 32 6 . 7 . 8 . Recognizing Loyalty 36 28 A Serious Commitment 40 A Recipe for Survival 44 Accepting ...
... Peter makes a decision . It's a far - reaching one for the new Chris- tian faith . It will get him into trouble because the community Thinking Creatively 9 is nowhere near a consensus about these things . In Thinking Creatively.
... 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 ,
... Faith While Peter was still speaking , the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word . The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles ...
... faith is not merely a set of proposi- tions to be believed but a relationship with God to which we give ourselves in trust . We assume that Christian faith remains the same once we have received it . And we can get rather an- gry with ...
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 |