Download or read book Growing Spiritual Grit for Teenagers written by Mikal Keefer and published by Group Publishing, Inc. . This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Mikal Keefer Strength for the Tough Stuff Life’s full of tough stuff. Maybe you’re even going through some hard things right now. (That’s completely normal...but not exactly fun, right?) To get through these hard things, you need grit. Grit is the determination to stick it out when challenges and obstacles come your way. Grit doesn’t always come easily or naturally; instead, you practice it until your strength and resilience grow. This devotion will help you practice. It focuses on one person who’s really good at making you stronger: Jesus. And then it shares his techniques for building grit in your life. Through short prayer ideas, Bible notes, questions for you to think about, and things to try, you can begin growing your grit starting now.
Download or read book Growing Spiritual Grit written by Mikal Keefer and published by Group Publishing, Inc. . This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Mikal Keefer It's time to get gritty. When life serves up challenges or draws you out of your comfort zone, it’s time to get gritty. Spiritually gritty. Spiritual grit is what enables people to follow Jesus no matter how difficult the path. It's rare, powerful, and transformative. And it's exactly what Jesus is looking to build in you. These 52 devotions will help. They'll propel you into the risk of relying on Jesus and encourage you with stories of how others have gotten gritty in their own lives. Ditch the comfort zone, welcome challenge, and start growing your grit now.
Download or read book Spiritual Grit written by Rick Lawrence and published by Group Publishing, Inc. . This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some people thrive in the midst of great challenges and others don't? The answer is grit: the strength that fuels a scrappy response to threats, fear, confusion, and pain. But grit is more than a personal success tool. Without a passion for Jesus and practical ways to develop grit, it’s doomed to disappoint. Spiritual Grit seeks a better outcome by delving into why Jesus sometimes chooses to inject hardship into our lives rather than remove it. The book also includes: • Ways to access the strength needed to live a resilient life, through a dependent relationship with Jesus. • Biblical stories of those who grew a “grit backbone” through their interactions with Jesus. • An extensive menu of life habits that fertilize grit, plus a method for identifying habits that undermine it. • A way for readers to assess their own spiritual grit. Without Jesus, grit is little more than a gimmick. With Jesus, grit can infuse the world—and our lives—with hope.
Download or read book The Whole Life written by Eliza Huie and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us live at a pace that is impossible to keep. Unrelenting busyness might feel necessary, but it can lead to chronic stress and burnout that hinders our love for God and others. Instead of adding more to our long to-do list, counselors Eliza Huie and Esther Smith guide readers in how to think biblically about their whole life. They give Christians a framework for biblical self-care that will help them live for Christ by stewarding the spiritual, emotional, relational, and physical aspects of life. The Whole Life: 52 Weeks of Biblical Self-Care outlines a balanced life of stewardship, offering practical strategies for Christians to grow in honoring God and caring for others. The authors focus on six key areas: faith, health, purpose, community, work, and rest. Each chapter addresses a specific topic and guides readers in thinking biblically about their whole life. Breaking down the misconceptions that self-care is not biblical, The Whole Life reveals that caring for yourself doesn’t mean you are being selfish or lazy. Instead, it’s a way of stewarding every part of your life for God’s glory and the good of others. Contrary to what our culture might lead us to believe, exhaustion and burnout are not unavoidable pitfalls of a faithful Christian life. Instead, they are warning signs that we need to turn to God for daily help. This book will reorient readers to the core value of resting their heart, mind, and strength in Christ.
Download or read book When Thoughts and Prayers Aren t Enough written by Taylor S. Schumann and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor Schumann survived a school shooting, yet she was left with permanent wounds, both visible and invisible. Weaving her own incredible story into a larger conversation about gun violence in America, Taylor shares another painful truth: Christians have largely been silent on this issue. With compassion and honesty, she encourages readers to join her in taking action for a safer future.
Download or read book Jesus Centered Life written by Rick Lawrence and published by Group Publishing, Inc. . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know Jesus, You think he’s a nice guy,and you never forget his birthday.But the truth is...you want more than that. You’re bored. Exhausted. Tired of the grind. You’re done with hearing about Jesus in sermons. Reading about Jesus in devotions. You want to encounter Jesus—and know him for who he really is. You want to experience Jesus’ love, not just admire him. To become a follower, not just a fan. The Jesus-Centered Life... • invites you into wonder as you explore the magnetic force of the real Jesus • frees you from a “trying harder to get better” lifestyle, so you can follow Jesus instead • walks you through one-of-a-kind practices that lead you into actual encounters with Jesus Packed with easy, natural, everyday life practices that transform how you see Jesus, The Jesus-Centered Life is the perfect antidote for a ho-hum connection to Jesus—a fresh invitation for you to make Jesus the center of your life. This book helps you chart a clear, fulfilling path straight to the Jesus who loves you.
Download or read book Grace and Grit written by Ken Wilber and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-02-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.
Download or read book Grit Glory written by Kaiser Johnson and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility and learn what it means to be physically—and spiritually—fit. In Grit & Glory, actor and elite obstacle racer Kaiser Johnson teaches you how to integrate body and soul with traditional training principles. Whether you are a person of faith looking to increase your level of fitness or a fitness enthusiast looking to deepen your spiritual life, it’s time to say goodbye to excuses and hello to reaching your goals. Get fit and stay that way! For men and women at all levels of fitness, Grit & Glory lays out the building blocks for getting stronger and leaner, as well as growing in virtue and prayer. Johnson shares how to take daily, actionable steps toward an integrated and disciplined way of life. With real, inspiring, easy-to follow instructions, actual 9, 21, 40 and 90-day workout plans with instructional photographs, this book will challenge and empower you to increase your fitness and practice your faith like never before.
Download or read book Practicing Passion written by Kenda Creasy Dean and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church.
Download or read book Getting Grit written by Caroline Miller and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow Your Grit—How You Can Develop the Critical Ingredient for Success Grit—defined as our perseverance and passion for long-term goals—is now recognized as one of the key determinants for achievement and life satisfaction. In an age that provides us with a never-ending stream of distractions and quick-and-easy solutions, how do we build this essential quality? “This book is designed to help you screen out the spam of life and cultivate authentic grit in every setting,” writes Caroline Miller. With Getting Grit, this bestselling author brings you an information-rich and practical guide for developing the qualities needed to persevere over obstacles—not just toughness and passion, but also humility, patience, and kindness. Join her as she shares research-based insights and practices on: • Learning grit—how you can enhance your willpower and rewire your brain for resilience • The key traits of gritty people—what the latest research reveals • The three kinds of “false grit” and how to recognize them in yourself • The courage to fail—tools for turning your setbacks into your greatest teachers • Daring to dream big—guidance for building your capacity to take risks and aim higher • No one succeeds alone—tips for gathering your support team and inspiring others • The role of self-compassion, gratitude, and spirituality in building grit “I’ve come to believe that gritty behavior is a positive force that does more than help us rise to our own challenges,” writes Caroline Miller. “When we embody the best qualities of grit, we become a role model for others who want to become better people, and help them awaken greater possibilities for themselves.” Whether you’re seeking to grow beyond your limits at work, at home, on the sporting field, or in any leadership role, Getting Grit is a powerful resource to help you bring out the qualities that will help you succeed and thrive.
Download or read book Life Tumbled written by Malissa Kelsch and published by Life Tumbled LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready or not, here comes the greatest adventure of your life. Growing up is hard. During the few short years of adolescence, young women are expected to move out, get an education, and support themselves until the right guy comes along-all while building skills like managing money, setting goals, and cooking cheap nutritious meals. It's a lot of pressure, even for girls who have supportive parents and helpful siblings. Life Tumbled shortens that learning curve. Author Malissa Kelsch shares essential yet overlooked lessons she has picked up tumbling along life's many unexpected paths. Life Tumbled teaches Christian young women about: managing your money wisely dating with an eternal perspective achieving your potential through goal-setting building your character to find joy within developing your spiritual awareness to find peace being industrious by gaining experience, competence, and skill shaping ourselves after disappointment With Life Tumbled, Malissa teaches you how to make the most of your one shot. The decisions you make, skills you pick up, and wisdom you gather at this special age set the course for the rest of your life. Make it the best it can be. Let's tumble together! Join Malissa on an inspiring spiritual journey that puts Christ first as you become the woman Heavenly Father meant you to be.
Download or read book Your Friendship with Holy Spirit written by Sarah Bowling and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father, Son, and... Who? The third member of the Trinity, Holy Spirit, is often only associated with unusual manifestations and “weird stuff.” In some cases, Scripture and the supernatural have been sadly mishandled, causing many to ignore the Spirit altogether. But Holy Spirit is still a very real part of the Godhead, and...
Download or read book True Spiritual Grit written by Jr. Grady J. Pennell and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual grit is character. True spiritual grit is character rooted in the person of God. Spiritual formation is character development. Everyone undergoes spiritual formation either intentionally or most often unintentionally. Intentional effort is essential in building spiritual grit. At the same time, it can never be separated from the grace and good news of Jesus Christ. The lessons on spiritual formation in this book were gleaned while ministering to U.S. Marines and Sailors over almost two decades. The study completed in 2006 documents that character can be strengthened intentionally through spiritual formation groups. Since retiring from the Navy in 2007, the author has pastored a local church in Alaska. The same spiritual formation lessons learned as a chaplain with Marines and Sailors still apply as a pastor. Today he applies these same principles to shepherding the hearts of a flock in today's hostile culture, just as he did caring for warriors training for combat. Grady has been pastor of Eagle River Grace since March 2007 when he retired as a chaplain from the U.S. Navy after 26 years. In the Navy, he served tours of duty on a nuclear submarine, a cruiser, an aircraft carrier, Seabee Battalions, and with numerous U.S. Marine units, which included a combat tour in the first Gulf War. He has lived in Iceland, Spain, Korea, and Japan. He holds a Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary, a Masters of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a B.S. in engineering from Texas A&M. His active, diverse ministry and travels span four decades and over 30 countries. Grady and his wife Pat are the parents of two adult children. His married son is a youth pastor in Oregon and his daughter serves with a charitable organization in California.
Download or read book Gospel Centered Family Counseling written by Robert W. PhD Kellemen and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors and counselors regularly minister to people whose marriages or families are in crisis. Tempers run high and feelings are brought low when a marriage is hurting or a family is in disarray. Pastors and counselors need practical, biblical help in order to connect their theological training to the reality of modern messy relationships. These how-to training manuals provide relevant, user-friendly equipping for pastors, counselors, lay leaders, educators, and students, enabling them to competently and compassionately relate God's Word to marriage and family life.
Download or read book Emotional Grit written by Neeta Bhushan and published by Neeta Bhushan Global Enterprises. This book was released on 2016 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the emotions of your past experiences continued to secretly control your life today? What if these residual, inner blockages prevented you from truly connecting with, trusting and working with others? What if your life was a continuous loop of the same story being retold with slightly different characters and settings no matter where you are and which people you choose to have relationships with? So many of us have been wounded with emotional pain at some point in our lives and are still carrying this emotional stress with us. It not only affects your emotional strength and intelligence, which influences your ability to make clear, conscientious decisions, but can prevent you from your optimal potential in achieving success, happiness and fulfillment. To define the new era of leadership in your own lives, it's time challenge your thinking. Emotional GRIT establishes a new model of human leadership within and beyond the workforce - to build a more heart-centered, compassionate environment in companies, communities, schools and families - so that you can master your inner-strength and positively impact the world around you. What causes someone's actual transformation, why is it we hide behind our "masks", and what does that say about your current leadership. To achieve authentic happiness we must first uncover what stories are playing themselves out in our lives. How can you shift your own lives as a result once you become more self-aware and practice more compassion and empathy within your own lives to create ripple effects in your world as a result? The process is simple and designed to give you a powerful framework to GROW, REVEAL, INNOVATE and finally TRANSFORM your life and become the compassionate leader you and the world desperately needs, one with true Emotional GRIT.
Download or read book GRIT 4 LIFE written by David Douglas and published by Alpha Book Publisher. This book was released on with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a daily devotion for those who wish to “change the relationship they have with their life.” It was originally designed for use within an addiction recovery facility. We found that many others were improving the quality of their life through these God inspired devotions. They are simply written and easy to understand, therefore easily applied to your life. If we allow God into our lives, He will help us with our Relationships. Living in God’s will for our lives gives us the Integrity to walk through life with our head held high. And last, but not least, we need to find the Truth. We must put in the work to find the Truth and stop accepting what the world tells us. We can use this G.R.I.T. FILTER to help us on the journey of changing the relationship we have with our lives. By asking four simple questions, we can avoid many of the “potholes” of life. Those four questions are: Have I invited God into my decision process? How will my decision affect my Relationships? What will my decision do to my Integrity? Have I done the research and found the Truth before I react? Living a life with G.R.I.T. will give you joy as you “Transform the relationship you have with your life.” If you believe you have a terrible life, it will be terrible. If you work to change your outlook and become grateful for what you have, every day becomes a blessing. It is my sincere hope that these devotional messages will be a blessing to you as you start to live with G.R.I.T.. GETCHASOME! David Douglas
Download or read book Calling All Years Good written by Kathleen A. Cahalan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely comprehensive discussion of vocation from infancy to old age Do infants have a vocation? Do Alzheimer's patients? In popular culture, vocation is often reduced to adult work or church ministry. Rarely do we consider childhood or old age as crucial times for commencing or culminating a life of faith in response to God's calling. This book addresses that gap by showing how vocation emerges and evolves over the course of an entire lifetime. The authors cover six of life's distinct seasons, weaving together personal narrative, developmental theory, case studies, and spiritual practices. Calling All Years Good grounds the discussion of vocation in concrete realities and builds a cohesive framework for understanding calling throughout all of life.
