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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Thus says the Lord to his anointed , to Cyrus , whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their robes .... For the sake of my servant Jacob , and Israel my chosen , I call you by your name ...
Thus says the Lord to his anointed , to Cyrus , whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their robes .... For the sake of my servant Jacob , and Israel my chosen , I call you by your name ...
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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 |
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Popular passages
Page 56 - I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.
Page 72 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphra'tes...
Page 132 - ... and he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host : but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
Page 152 - Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
Page 80 - And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see ; and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; that the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
Page 60 - Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest -and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Page 16 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
Page 56 - In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the Temple.
Page 96 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Living Scripture: The Guidance of God on the Journey of Life G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Herbert O'Driscoll |
| Publisher | Dundurn, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1551264366, 9781551264363 |
| Length | 155 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Spirituality |
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