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Escaping Escapism (ebook)
Escaping Escapism (ebook)
Escaping Escapism (ebook)
Escaping Escapism (ebook)
Escaping Escapism (ebook)
Escaping Escapism (ebook)

Escaping Escapism ebook

Stop putting things off. Start taking things on.

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About this book

Almost anything that is worth doing is a struggle. Almost anything that benefits other people is tough to do. Almost anything that makes a difference in this world is hard to see through to the end. Which is why, we’ll often do almost anything to escape doing it!

Yet we want to love people well, even when they’re difficult… tackle challenges that we find difficult… and keep moving forwards through times that prove difficult. Deep down we want to get on with doing hard things, fix what needs fixing and change what needs changing.

This book shows us how a bigger, better picture of Jesus will transform us. Our panic ...

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Specifications

Contributors:
Dave Griffith-Jones, Rico Tice
ISBN:
9781784981815
Format:
eBook
First published:
January 2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Good Book Company

Contents

1. The Best Things We Do
2. A Divided Heart
3. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
4. Refuge
5. Shepherd
6. Light
7. Portion
8. Rock
9. Strength
10. Salvation
11. The Hardest Things We Do

Endorsements

We have made escapism a contact sport. We have so many devices and distractions to keep us busy from an involved life. This book is easy to read, full of self-deprecating humour with plenty of practical examples of people like you and me. Reading a book on escaping escapism is the easy bit, but Dave explores the wisdom contained in Scripture and a relationship with God to help us in our daily lives. This is a hopeful and encouraging book.

Michael Harvey Author of Unlocking the Growth; co-founder of Back to Church Sunday

What a fine and useful book! It is a really helpful combination of contemporary perception, Biblical insight, practical advice, and an attractive and compelling style. I had not realised my own brilliant escapist ability until I read this book: and it also gave me Biblical and Christ-centred hope!

Peter Adam former Principal of Ridley College, Melbourne; Vicar Emeritus of St Jude’s Carlton, Melbourne; author of Written for Us.

Refreshingly honest and regularly funny, Dave helps us to develop Christ-like, everyday courage by exposing our escapist hearts to who Jesus really is. However you might be seeking to escape from reality this wonderful book will help you return with real joy to the Good News that we so often fail to let determine every part of our lives.

Ed Shaw Pastor of Emmanuel City Centre, Bristol & Co-Founder of www.livingout.org

At heart, I'm an escapologist. I run from things that are hard because I don't like failure, unpopularity or pain. If you're anything like me this book is a fantastic place to start a journey of change. It is short, accessible and full of hope. Don't find an excuse to put off reading it!

Helen Thorne–Allenson Director of Training and Resources at Biblical Counselling UK

This is a great book, filled with moving and practical meditations on the person and work of Jesus. Grounded in Scripture (and the author’s own testimony), it helps us think through how and why we try to escape – and what gospel change looks like.

Emma Scrivener Author of A New Name and blogger

As someone who struggles with passivity in leadership, I needed this book. Dave Griffith-Jones not only coins an important new term for our struggles—for the disobedience that masks itself as risk-avoidance—but is a gospel-saturated, compassionate call to repent of our inaction and courageously live out the life of Christ.

Daniel Darling Director of The Land Center for Cultural Engagement; author, The Dignity Revolution

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