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Gift of Thorns: Jesus, the Flesh, and the War for Our Wants
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Gift of Thorns: Jesus, the Flesh, and the War for Our Wants

by A. J. Swoboda

Narrated by Tom Parks

Today's follower of Jesus exists at a moment in history when our desires, longings, and wants are being weaponized against us by cultural, spiritual, and relational forces. "Follow your heart" and "You do you" has become our moment's mantras. The result, for too many, is feeling torn asunder by the raging desires within. What do we do with our desire… Read more…

Gift of Thorns Study Guide plus Streaming Video: Jesus, the Flesh, and the War for Our Wants

Gift of Thorns Study Guide plus Streaming Video: Jesus, the Flesh, and the War for Our Wants

by A. J. Swoboda

Discover God's good will for our wants.The Gift of Thorns Study Guide, a companion to The Gift of Thorns, dives deep into some of the hardest questions we wrestle with in the war for our wants:What do God's desires and Satan's desires have to do with us?Which desires did God place in our hearts at creation, and why?What can we do when w… Read more…

Gift of Thorns: Jesus, the Flesh, and the War for Our Wants

Gift of Thorns: Jesus, the Flesh, and the War for Our Wants

by A. J. Swoboda

Today's follower of Jesus exists at a moment in history when our desires, longings, and wants are being weaponized against us by cultural, spiritual, and relational forces. "Follow your heart" and "You do you" has become our moment's mantras. The result, for too many, is feeling torn asunder by the raging desires within. What do we do with our desire… Read more…

Redeeming How We Talk: Discover How Communication Fuels Our Growth, Shapes Our Relationships, and Changes Our Lives

Redeeming How We Talk: Discover How Communication Fuels Our Growth, Shapes Our Relationships, and Changes Our Lives

by Ken Wytsma and A. J. Swoboda

Discover why words matter in a noisy world Technology has made it easier than ever before to share just about everything: pictures, ideas, even the ups and downs of your morning errand run. Yet all our talking doesn’t seem to be connecting us the way it promised to. That’s because we don’t need to talk more, we need to talk better. … Read more…

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Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World

Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World

by A. J. Swoboda and Matthew Sleeth

Christianity Today 2019 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) and Award of Merit for CT's Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the YearWe live in a 24/7 culture of endless productivity, workaholism, distraction, burnout, and anxiety--a way of life to which we've sadly grown accustomed. This tired system of "life" ultimately destroys our souls, our bodies, o… Read more…

The Dusty Ones: Why Wandering Deepens Your Faith

The Dusty Ones: Why Wandering Deepens Your Faith

by A. J. Swoboda

Through every turn of the biblical story, God's people are a wandering people. When they are rescued from slavery in Egypt, God sends them into the desert, where they wander for a generation. Jesus and his disciples wander from town to town. In fact, some of God's most important truths are imparted to people with dusty feet as they travel on the road… Read more…

A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension between Belief and Experience

A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension between Belief and Experience

by A. J. Swoboda

On Thursday as they ate the Passover meal with Jesus, the disciples believed that the kingdom was coming and they were on the front end of a revolution. Then came the tragedy of Friday and, somehow even worse, the silence of Saturday. They ran. They doubted. They despaired. Yet, within the grave, God's power was still flowing like a mighty river beneath … Read more…

Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology: Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis

Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology: Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis

by A. J. Swoboda, Daniel L. Brunner, Jennifer L. Butler and Bill McKibben

Today's church finds itself in a new world, one in which climate change and ecological degradation are front-page news. In the eyes of many, the evangelical community has been slow to take up a call to creation care. How do Christians address this issue in a faithful way?This evangelically centered but ecumenically informed introduction to ecological the… Read more…