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  Waiting For Jesus

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  Through this 25-day Advent devotional, enjoy daily readings that help you slow down, savor the season, and deepen your relationship with Jesus–from the bestselling author of The Deeply Formed Life.

  The holidays often feel like a marathon, as we dash from one event, errand, or party to another. In the busyness, it’s easy to neglect what really matters: reflecting on the glory of Jesus. We want to pray more–to spend time with God–but the tyranny of the urgent leaves us distracted and depleted.

  In this twenty-five-day devotional, pastor and author Rich Villodas guides you through reflections, prayers, and prompts to help you slow down, connect with God, and rediscover peace this Advent season. Each day offers space for personal reflection, preparing your heart for Jesus’s arrival and culminating in a final devotional on Christmas Day. Amid the noise of the season, these biblical truths invite you into the joy and peace Christ brings. Let this be a time of holy longing and heartfelt rejoicing as you welcome him anew.

  Each day in this devotional features a short reflection from Rich, followed by a four-fold rhythm:

  *Silence and prayer Pause for a few moments. Take a breath. Rest.
  *Scripture Read a short passage about the wonder of Jesus.
  *Quotes Read short, inspiring thoughts from Christians through the ages.
  *Self-reflection Bring your full self to God and enjoy his presence.

  As you journey with Rich Villodas through Advent, reclaim joy and wonder as you behold the wondrous love of God.

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  Narrow Path : How The Subversive Way Of Jesus Satisfies Our Souls

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  A compelling call to embrace the countercultural values of Jesus, which lead to a life of love, peace, and fulfillment, from the bestselling author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award.

  We live in a culture that wants it all. More is seen as better–whether it’s more money, social media fame, choices, or power. For those chasing this way of life, “narrow” seems negative. Who wants to narrow their options . . . or be seen as narrow-minded?

  Which is why the most well-known talk in the history of the world–the Sermon on the Mount–is also the most paradoxical one. In it, Jesus holds up the narrow path as the most spacious . . . and the broader path as the more confining one.

  Rich Villodas, bestselling author of The Deeply Formed Life, explores what today’s broad and narrow paths look like so you can discern which one you’re on. The answer may surprise you–and will help you pursue the way of Jesus more deeply when it comes to loving God and others, prayer, sexual desire, conflict, money, anxiety, and more.

  The Narrow Path reintroduces the counterintuitive wonder of Jesus’s timeless wisdom for this age, one fraught with anxiety, depression, polarizing politics, and online vitriol. The path of Jesus is most certainly narrow, but it is the only one filled with the ever-expanding life of God . . . and it is available now for all who want it!

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  Good And Beautiful And Kind

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  We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that’s not the world we live in.
  We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture.

  How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls.

  Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily.

  In Good and Beautiful and Kind, he reveals how…

  – These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma.

  – We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence.

  – The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future–when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus.

  Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you…and around you!

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  Good And Beautiful And Kind

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  An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience–from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award

  Sometimes, the world feels like it is tearing itself apart because we have not been taught to love. Our daily experience is marked by reactivity, impatience, unresolved conflicts, and the inability to hold space with one another. The impact on our bodies and most treasured relationships is overwhelming. But what if a different future is possible? What if we could find real peace, joy, and love?

  In this dynamic book with fresh energy and classic truth, pastor and author Rich Villodas writes that the way towards wholeness, healing, and a new collective future is found in the ancient way of Jesus. Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we see and feel daily. Jesus presents us with a way of healing, reconciliation, humility, reflection, patience, empathy, truth-telling, and presence. It’s the way of the Cross, and the victorious path of the resurrection. We have not been trained to love well. Our society reminds us of this often. But what if that could change? What if we submitted ourselves to an ancient path that forms us out of sentimentality into self-giving love; out of anger and into compassion; out of fear and into hospitality?

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  Deeply Formed Life

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  During our chaotic times, discover five forgotten values that can spark internal growth and help us reconcile our Christian faith with the complexities of race, sexuality, and social justice.

  WINNER OF THE CT BOOK AWARD

  Most believers live in the state of “being a Christian” without ever being deeply formed by Christ. Our pace is too frenetic to be in union with God, and we don’t know how to quiet our hearts and minds to be present. Our emotions are unhealthy and compartmentalized. We feel unable to love well or live differently from the rest of the world–to live as people of the good news.

  New York pastor Rich Villodas says we must restore balance, focus, and meaning for our souls. The Deeply Formed Life lays out a fresh vision for spiritual breakthrough following five key values:

  – Contemplative Rhythms Value: slowing down our lives to be with God.
  – Racial Justice Value: examining a multi-layered approach to pursuing racial justice and reconciliation.
  – Interior Examination Value: looking beneath the surface of our lives to live free and love well.
  – Sexual Wholeness Value: exploring how our sexuality connects with our spirituality.
  – Missional Presence Value: living as the presence of Christ in a broken world.

  The Deeply Formed Life is a roadmap to live in the richly rooted place we all yearn for: a place of communion with God, a place where we find our purpose.

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  Deeply Formed Life

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  What are five values every Christian needs in order to find balance, focus, and meaning in today’s relentlessly paced world? The answers may surprise you, says one New York City pastor.

  The world is faster and busier than it’s ever been, with more noise and distraction unsettling our already restless souls. We are a people out of rhythm. For Christians who are frustrated with churches that only add to the hustle and bustle, there must be an answer in our interior spiritual life. We long for deeper, more meaningful faith. Author and pastor Rich Villodas’s The Deeply Formed Life offers an expansive, interconnected vision of spiritual formation comprised of five key pathways:

  – The monastic value: What does it mean to unplug everything and listen to your soul? How do you do it in a world full of noise?

  – The multiracial value: Bringing a spiritual internal understanding to the work of racial justice.

  – The emotional health value: Our interior lives are disconnected, and emotional health requires deep love that can’t come from shallow wells.

  – The healthy sexuality value: Christians need a new understanding of the connection between their physical bodies and their spiritual ones.

  – The missional value: Bringing richer understanding to what a spiritual life is instead of a consumerist, disengaged spirituality.

  Rich unpacks each pathway in the book, not just providing the theological scaffolding for it but also the real practices that we can implement to move toward spiritual wholeness. In an increasingly fractured time, where little common ground can be found, this book sets out to transform lives from the inside out and empower people to follow Jesus through the divisive, pressing issues of our day.

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