Joy Even on Your Worst Days: Wisdom from Philippians - Softcover

Are Jr., Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1666711268 ISBN 13: 9781666711264

Verlag: Resource Publications, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The world the apostle Paul inhabited was dramatically different from our time. He knew nothing of capitalism, or physics, or Zoom, and more significantly, Paul was a regular in Caesar’s prison. For us, “Caesar” is a salad. But a constant in the human story is that every life faces suffering. Paul’s life was no different. And yet, on Paul’s worst days, he still exhibited a spirit of joy. In this spirit of joy, Paul offers us some inspiration. Joy is not a common reality in modern life. We are more acquainted with anxiety and fear, and on good days we can settle for happiness; but joy is less common. The worst days come to all of us. At some point the dreams die, the body fails, the spirit is crushed. Those days leave their mark on us. But an imprisoned apostle passed down 104 verses to an ancient congregation in Philippi, and they have passed it down to us. It is their testimony that when the worst days come—and they will—they do not have to be the end of joy. Indeed, they might be the beginning.

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Tom Are Jr. is a preacher who loves to tell a story. After serving congregations in South Carolina and Florida, for the past seventeen years he has served as senior pastor of the Village Presbyterian Church in Kansas City. A graduate of Presbyterian College, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Yale Divinity School, Tom has gathered the wisdom garnered from over thirty-five years of ministry and poured it into this book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Resource Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1666711268
• ISBN 13: 9781666711264
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
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