The Good and Beautiful Community

Author: James Bryan Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830861254
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
In this Good and Beautiful Series book, James Bryan Smith helps you to live in relationship with others as apprentices of Jesus. He shows how to bring spiritual formation and community engagement together, and he offers spiritual practices that root new, true narratives about God and the world in your soul.

The Good and Beautiful God

Author: James Bryan Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830878343
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Turning to the Gospels, James Bryan Smith invites you to compare your ideas about God with what Jesus himself reveals about his Father. In this Good and Beautiful Series book, Smith leads you through a process of spiritual formation that includes activities aimed at making these new narratives real in your body and soul as well as your mind.

The Good and Beautiful Life

Author: James Bryan Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830878769
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
James Bryan Smith believes we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. In this Good and Beautiful Series book, Smith traces through the Sermon on the Mount and helps us replace our false beliefs with Jesus' narratives about life in the kingdom of God.

The Good and Beautiful Series

Author: James Bryan Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830835409
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
James Bryan Smith believes the gospel is about change in our lives today, not just our eternal destiny. In The Good and Beautiful Series he aims to help Christians develop a robust discipleship by helping them understand who God is, what it means to be a Christian and what it means to live in community as a part of God's kingdom. Throughout the series, which includes The Good and Beautiful God, The Good and Beautful Life and The Good and Beautiful Community, Smith encourages you to read, journal, pray, discuss and participate in weekly spiritual exercises to help you engage with the text. As you work through the books individually (or more ideally in a group setting) you'll discover your heart being shaped by the truth of Christ—and your life being changed. Get to know the God Jesus knew and the Kingdom he proclaimed. The transformation you seek will come as a direct result of spending focused time with him and his people. A Renovaré Resource.

The Beautiful Community

Author: Irwyn L. Ince
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830853413
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
The church is at its best when it pursues the biblical value of unity in diversity. Pastor and theologian Irwyn Ince boldly unpacks the reasons for our divisions while gently guiding us toward our true hope for wholeness and reconciliation. To heal our fractured humanity, we must cultivate spiritual practices that help us pursue beautiful community.

Raw Spirituality

Author: Tom Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083089652X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
How do we allow the life of Jesus to flow through our whole bodies into our everyday lives? Having Jesus in our hearts is not enough. In this whole-life approach to Christian formation, Tom Smith directs us into a "rhythm of life" that that brings flourishing to our personal spirituality that then extends to our service in the world.

The Kingdom and the Cross

Author: James Bryan Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083086833X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
In six short chapters, James Bryan Smith zooms in on what Christ's work on the cross means about who God is and how we're to live as his people. A soul-training exercise included with each chapter and a discussion guide at the end makes this complement to The Apprentice Series perfect for groups. An Apprentice and Renovaré Resource.

Hidden in Christ

Author: James Bryan Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830895450
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
In this unique introduction to the hidden life in Christ, James Bryan Smith walks readers through a thirty-day immersion in Colossians 3:1-17. Each of the thirty short chapters hones in on a single word or phrase from this life-changing passage, followed by a simple daily practice, a prompt for reflection and small group follow-up questions.

Planning the Good Community

Author: Jill Grant
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415700740
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities. With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It compares the movement for urban renaissance in Europe with the New Urbanism of the United States and Canada, and asks whether the concerns that drive today's planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns and globalisation- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. The issue of aesthetics is also raised, as the author questions whether communities must be more than just attractive in order to be good. With the benefit of twenty years' hindsight and a world-wide perspective, this book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.

The Life of the Body

Author: Valerie E. Hess
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830866388
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
"Jesus had a body." Beginning with this simple reminder, spritual formation experts Valerie Hess and Lane Arnold look at how we relate as physical beings in a material world and how that forms our inner life. Filled with creative exercises, this book brings you into a new relationship with food, worship, the seasons, the planet and more.