Muscular Faith : How to Strengthen Your Heart, Soul, and Mind for the Only Challenge That Matters

The journey of faith can be risky and overwhelming. Yet we join up, knowing that with the challenge comes excitement, the sense of being fully alive, and the extremity of living a life completely sold out to Jesus. And our goal is to become spiritually strong enough to stand till the end. Author and teacher Ben Patterson calls you to develop __muscular faith__—the faith of a Jesus follower whose heart, soul, mind, and time are committed to a cause of supreme worth. Through biblical insight and wisdom, you’ll be equipped for the only fight that matters—doing the work of God against the snares and temptations of this world. You’ll build up your spiritual muscles on the hard road to glory . . . and become stronger than you ever knew you could be. The journey of faith can be risky and overwhelming. Yet we join up, knowing that with the challenge comes excitement, the sense of being fully alive, and the extremity of living a life completely sold out to Jesus. And our goal is to become spiritually strong enough to stand till the end. Author and teacher Ben Patterson calls you to develop muscular faith —the faith of a Jesus follower whose heart, soul, mind, and time are committed to a cause of supreme worth. Through biblical insight and wisdom, you’ll be equipped for the only fight that matters—doing the work of God against the snares and temptations of this world. You’ll build up your spiritual muscles on the hard road to glory . . . and become stronger than you ever knew you could be. The call: the good hard The God who calls: God is a warrior Don't try this alone: fighting as one body The war: don't take it personally The stakes: heaven or hell The urgency: tell them there is no hurry The prize: the splendors of God The fool: making Jesus the homeboy The cost: easy to please, hard to satisfy Disappointment with God: scars from an old wound Persistent prayer: holy chutzpah Patient prayer: the hammer strokes of prayer Joy: the heart of a fighter Hope: the melody of the future Sabbath: muscular rest Mortification of sin: with extreme prejudice Learning to love the good: wow! Hardheaded love: the love most like God's Courage: the virtue that makes all the others possible Finishing well: let me get home before dark. RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth,RELIGION / Christianity / Christian Life