Steps To The Father

by Vince Blaize

Overview

This Christian nonfiction book will help readers strengthen their relationships with God and focus on seeing their greater purpose in life. Readers will learn how to embrace opportunities, accept change, recognize their season of life, and appreciate God's work on their hearts. Each chapter focuses on an important realization, such as the power of words, the strength of family, making a vessel of honor, and recognizing the work of the Spirit. Readers will leave their troubles behind and appreciate the hidden meanings for why they are significant in God's plan. It will inspire, encourage, and challenge readers to walk closer to Jesus. With discussion questions at the end of each chapter, readers will reflect on their own experiences and be able to apply the book's teachings to their lives. This interactive element makes it perfect for group study or personal study. Reversing limitations, God's love, life's purpose, motivational reading, Christian self-help, Christian life, spiritual growth, personal growth, prayer life, Christian Bible study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545652664
Publisher:	Xulon Press
Publication date:	12/21/2018
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

Editorial Reviews

2019-12-09
An old-fashioned guide to living a Christian life through biblical exegesis.

This brief book from Blaize (Seasons of Transition, 2015) uses quick, densely packed chapters to examine the biblical stories of Jesus Christ and David with close, verse-by-verse attention. Each chapter goes into narrow historical specifics of the narrative at hand and concludes with discussion questions and, sometimes, related prayers. Throughout, Blaize regularly broadens his inquiries to encompass specific problems in life, and he chooses his biblical stories with an eye toward wider interpretations for readers who, for example, are feeling unhealthy, facing deteriorating finances, or, as Blaize writes, "entering into an emotional valley of your own." In each case, he throws a spotlight on specific incidents in the Bible from which he draws appropriate, uplifting sentiments. According to him, people live in a world besieged by dark forces—"Satan has already placed his claim on us and condemned us to die," he writes—and the steps that they can take to save themselves begin with accepting Jesus. Many of Blaize's observations will be comfortably familiar to his Christian target audience, as when he characterizes mankind as an "incredibly built machine with a heart made for eternity"—one made in the image of God and endowed with a soul. And Blaize leavens his analysis with a feeling of empathy that makes his readings very appealing, particularly when he approaches the tale of King David. "Because we all struggle with the Adamic nature," he writes, "we are all capable of making wrong choices in our walk with God and in our daily living"; he goes on to show that, for all of David's failings, readers of the Bible shouldn't judge him too harshly, as the act of forgiveness benefits both the forgiven and the forgiver.

A fundamental and emotional look at Christian fallibility.

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