The Good and Beautiful Life

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Description

"I have never met a person whose goal was to ruin his or her life. We all want to be happy, and we want it all of the time."

So begins James Bryan Smith in The Good and Beautiful Life. The problem is, he tells us, we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. These self-centered decisions lead us further into the vices that cause ruin: anger, lust, lying, worry and judging. Eventually we find ourselves living a beautifully packaged life of self-destruction.

Following the Sermon on the Mount, in this follow-up to The Good and Beautiful God, author James Bryan Smith guides us to look behind these character flaws and to replace our false beliefs with Jesus' narratives about life in the kingdom of God.

Features

• Includes questions for individual reflection and processing embedded in the text
• Includes content for small group discussion at the end of each chapter.
• Each chapter includes a description of a suggested companion spiritual practice
• Includes twelve weeks of material for small groups plus an introductory week

The Good and Beautiful Life is part of the three-volume Apprentice Series. Purchase the three titles together in the Apprentice Series bundle and save!

About the Author(s)

James Bryan Smith (M.Div., Yale University Divinity School, D.Min., Fuller Seminary) is a theology professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, and a writer and speaker in the area of Christian spiritual formation. He also serves as the director of the Apprentice Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation at Friends University.

A founding member of Richard J. Foster's spiritual renewal ministry, Renovare, Smith is an ordained United Methodist Church minister and has served in various capacities in local churches. Smith is also the editor of A Spiritual Formation Workbook, Devotional Classics (with Richard Foster). And author of Hidden in Christ, Embracing the Love of God, Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven and Room of Marvels.

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