Name: Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn't Enough
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Author: John Mark Comer

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Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn't Enough

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Ortberg

Preface by

John Mark Comer

Publisher

Tyndale Refresh

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781496447043

Synopsis "Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn't Enough"

Is there really any hope for a spiritual way of living that actually works?Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we're all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change but we can't do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AAs 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for: Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own livesDistinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futileDiscovering how God can do for us what we can't do for ourselves, andliving authentically, joyfully and in communion with God and other people.Ortberg shows us how to discover: Our spiritual attachment stylesOur core doubts The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulnessGod's sufficiency in our inadequacyIn Steps, find what's needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship and a new happiness no matter our circumstances.

John Mark Comer

(Preface by)

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John Mark Comer lives, works, and writes in the urban center of Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Tammy, and their three children, Jude, Moses, and Sunday.

He is the pastor of teaching and vision at Bridgetown Church. Before founding Bridgetown, John Mark was the lead pastor of a suburban megachurch. Before that, he played in a band. John Mark holds a master's degree in biblical and theological studies from Western Seminary and is the author of the books Loveology, My Name is Hope, Garden City, and God Has a Name.

To learn more about John Mark's teachings on the Scriptures, Jesus, and life, visit bridgetown.church and subscribe to the podcast or visit www.johnmarkcomer.com.

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