Bread for the Resistance – Forty Devotions for Justice People - Donna Barber

Bread for the Resistance – Forty Devotions for Justice People

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Buch | Softcover
168 Seiten
2019
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4396-1 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Sometimes you get tired, doing this thing we call justice. You feel burned out or disillusioned. Sometimes you just need a word from the Lord. In these daily devotions, Donna Barber offers life-giving words of renewal and hope for those engaged in the resistance to injustice. When your legs are tired from marching and your knees are bruised from kneeling, you can experience rest and healing.
Sometimes you get tired, doing this thing we call justice. Making the case, fighting the fight, having to explain again and again why it matters. You feel burned out or disillusioned. Sometimes you just need a word from the Lord.
In these daily devotions, Donna Barber offers life-giving words of renewal and hope for those engaged in the resistance to injustice. When you face adversity, you can take courage. When you grapple with discouragement, you can find hope. When your legs are tired from marching and your knees are bruised from kneeling, you can experience rest and healing.
Find here bread for the resistance.

Donna Barber is cofounder of The Voices Project, an organization that influences culture through training and promoting leaders of color. She is also the director of Champions Academy, an initiative of the Portland Leadership Foundation that provides culturally responsive leadership development for student athletes. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Leroy, and their children.

Introduction: The Bread of Resistance



Part I: Understanding Our Purpose


1. Defiance

2. Honor

3. Medicine Trees

4. Recycled Gifts

5. Revelation

6. Small Talk

7. Through Blindness and Graveclothes



Part II: The Goal: Changing the World


8. The Fruit of Success

9. Big Shoes

10. Decisions, Decisions

11. Avoiding Burnout

12. High Stepping

13. Wells and Waterpots

14. Rocks and Record Keepers



Part III: The Means: New Birth


15. Begin Again

16. Change of Plans

17. Conversion

18. Except You Become as Children

19. Simple Instructions

20. Slaves versus Sons



Part IV: The Message: Good News


21. Forgive Us Our Debts

22. In the Beginning

23. Signs and Wonders

24. Takeover

25. The Emmaus Road

26. Word Made Flesh

27. Privilege



Part V: The Method: Love


28. The Mandate to Love

29. Clarity

30. Love That Covers a Multitude

31. Salvation Is Come

32. The Way and Character of the Righteous

33. Who Is That?



Part VI: The Reality: Suffering


34. Cast Down but Not Destroyed

35. Obey Your Thirst

36. Praying to the Wall

37. Standing Alone

38. The Call

39. Place of Refuge

40. Garden of Grief

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Illinois
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 177 mm
Gewicht 164 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10 0-8308-4396-5 / 0830843965
ISBN-13 978-0-8308-4396-1 / 9780830843961
Zustand Neuware
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