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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... 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 ,
... ourselves in trust . We assume that Christian faith remains the same once we have received it . And we can get rather an- gry with anybody or anything that challenges what we believe and the way we believe it . The idea that God might ...
... ourselves of the position Peter has placed himself in , merely by accepting this invitation . He is going to the house not only of a Gentile - a despised out- sider - but also of one who represents the oppressive Roman occupation of his ...
... ourselves that the information Isaiah gathered and used to motivate his people was prob- ably available to others . What made the difference was Isaiah's prior conviction that , with God , all was possible . More than anything else it ...
... ourselves . This way we can relax and trust . We can be sure that things will be done the way we wish . But this neat solution is fraught with danger . A group of people all sharing much the same pattern of strengths can be , of course ...
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 |