In this fearful and cynical age, when doom-and-gloomers forecast catastrophe and fearmongers try to get us to hedge our bets on the future with insurance policies and safety nets, we need to rediscover real hope. Lewis Smedes says, -Hope is as native to our spirits as thinking is to our brain. Keep hoping, and you keep living. Stop hoping, and you start dying.- He shows how hope powers every good thing we accomplish and helps us overcome every bad thing we encounter. He talks about how to keep hope alive in difficult times, discern false hope from true hope, and move beyond worry to trust...
In this fearful and cynical age, when doom-and-gloomers forecast catastrophe and fearmongers try to get us to hedge our bets on the future with ins...
Is there a morality that shows us how to survive as a humane community? Can we know what God expects of the human family? Is there a morality for ordinary people? In this book, the author of Sex for Christians and Love within Limits explores the way to moral sanity amid the confusions and crises of contemporary life. We do not, says Smedes, have a -moral map- to mark out the details of our route in advance, but neither are we left to grope and improvise at every step. The focus of Smedes's study is the commandments -- in particular those five of the Ten Commandments...
Is there a morality that shows us how to survive as a humane community? Can we know what God expects of the human family? Is there a morality for ordi...
Now considered a classic statement on sex and sexuality from a Christian perspective, Lewis B. Smedes's Sex for Christians offers a frank yet compassionate discussion that is refreshingly open-minded and strongly biblical. The book is divided into three major sections. The first, -Sex and Christian People, - overviews human sexuality -- its created goodness, its sinful distortions, and its redeemed potential -- what we are as human sexual beings. Part Two, -Sex and Single People, - and Part Three, -Sex and Married People, - are about sexual behavior in each succeeding stage of life --...
Now considered a classic statement on sex and sexuality from a Christian perspective, Lewis B. Smedes's Sex for Christians offers a frank yet c...
Each one of us enjoys deep relationships held together by an invisible cord called commitment, and every important community depends on the strength of that unseen cord. At times, we find it a joy to keep our commitments. At others, it seems difficult-even impossible-to honor those spoken and unspoken pledges. If you deeply desire to make and keep commitments... If you want insight into what makes relationships work- or to learn what to do when a relationship is in crisis... If you feel trapped by a bad commitment and wonder if you can experience grace and a new...
Each one of us enjoys deep relationships held together by an invisible cord called commitment, and every important community depends on the strength o...
""Faith does not break lose in my head with a whooping, 'Hurrah for God ' Believing sneaks into my soul while my head is saying, 'My God, where were you when I needed you?'"" Lewis Smedes does not explain away pain or deny that things get bad and that life is hard. Instead he helps us move beyond a disheartening present by being open to God and the certainty that things are, somehow, fundamentally right. This book is about grace. Grace is the courage to go on believing in the presence of suffering and death. This is real believing, not just the intellectual kind. "The thinking...
""Faith does not break lose in my head with a whooping, 'Hurrah for God ' Believing sneaks into my soul while my head is saying, 'My God, where were y...
-There are some things about God that, were I to stop believing them, my world would change color, my hope would turn sour, and the meaning of my life would be yanked inside out.- In this moving spiritual memoir, finished shortly before his death in December 2002, Lewis Smedes, beloved teacher and best-selling author, takes readers through his own lifelong walk with God. In My God and I Smedes gives voice to both the struggles and the joys of his life, revealing his deepest questions to a God who would never let him go and expressing his eager anticipation of the day...
-There are some things about God that, were I to stop believing them, my world would change color, my hope would turn sour, and the meaning of my l...
