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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... mind extends be- yond even the far - flung borders of Babylon to see a distant leader as nothing less than God's instrument to achieve Isra- el's freedom . Ezekiel is with the same people in the same situation of exile and oppression ...
... minds whom we know as the prophets of ancient Israel were past masters at communicating what Moltmann has called adventus . As we listen to one of them , the person we know as the prophet Ezekiel , we realize the ex- traordinary effect ...
... minds of those listening to him - as he tells what hap- pens . " I prophesied as [ God ] commanded me , and the breath came into them , and they lived , and stood on their feet , a vast multitude ! " Then , in what must have been utter ...
... mind of a people - a dream of liberation , of justice , of a better life - it has repeatedly proved unstoppable ... minds , and gal- vanize us into action to bring about that future . The vision of better health or a more rewarding ...
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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 |