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  You Are What You Love (Reprinted)

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  You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.

  In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices. He explains that worship is the “imagination station” that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. This is why the church and worshiping in a local community of believers should be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship.

  Following the publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a more accessible version of that book’s content. No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smith’s popular presentations on the ideas presented in Desiring the Kingdom to offer a fresh, bottom-up rearticulation. The author creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage readers and includes material on marriage, family, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life.

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  Good And Beautiful Life

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  Introduction

  How To Get The Most Out Of This Book
  1 An Invitation To The Good Life
  Soul Training: Writing A Letter To God
  2 Getting Heaven In Us
  Soul Training: Play
  3 An Invitation To Blessedness
  Soul Training: Hospitality
  4 Learning To Live Without Anger
  Soul Training: Keeping The Sabbath
  5 Learning To Live Without Lust
  Soul Training: Media Fast
  6 Learning To Live Without Lying
  Soul Training: Silence
  7 Learning To Bless Those Who Curse Us
  Soul Training: Praying For The Success Of Competitors
  8 Learning To Live Without Vainglory
  Soul Training: Secret Service
  9 Learning To Live Without Avarice
  Soul Training: Deaccumulation
  10 Learning To Live Without Worry
  Soul Training: Prayer
  11 Learning To Live Without Judging Others
  Soul Training: A Day Without Gossip
  12 Living In The Kingdom Day By Day
  Soul Training: Living One Day Devotionally

  Appendix: Small Group Discussion Guide
  Notes
  Acknowledgments

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  James Bryan Smith believes we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. We find ourselves caught up in self-serving decisions that lead us further into the vices that cause ruin: anger, lust, lying, worry and judging. In this follow up to his first book, The Good and Beautiful God, Smith traces through the Sermon on the Mount and helps us look behind these sins to replace our false beliefs with Jesus’ naratives about life in the kingdom of God.

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  Good And Beautiful God

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  Introduction
  How To Get The Most Out Of This Book
  1. What Are You Seeking?
  Soul Training: Sleep
  2. God Is Good
  Soul Training:Silence And Awareness Of Creation
  3. God Is Trustworthy
  Soul Training: Counting Your Blessings
  4. God Is Generous
  Soul Training: Praying Psalm 23
  5. God Is Love
  Soul Training: Lectio Divina
  6. God Is Holy
  Soul Training: Margin
  7. God Is Self-Sacrificing
  Soul Training; Reading The Gospel Of John
  8. God Transforms
  Soul Training: Solitude
  9. How To Make A Pickle
  Soul Training: Slowing Down
  Appendix: Small Group Discussion Guide
  Notes
  Acknowledgments

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  Turning to the Gospels, James Bryan Smith invites you to put your ideas about God to the test to see if they match up with what Jesus himself reveals about his Father. Once you’ve discovered the truth in Scripture, Smith leads you through a process of spiritual formation that includes specific activities aimed at making these new narratives real in your body and soul as well as your mind.

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