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Good and Beautiful and Kind

Becoming Whole in a Fractured World

  • Hardback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Waterbrook Press
  • 14 x 21 x 1.6 cm

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For anyone wanting to live and love like Jesus

This honest book outlines strategies for getting goodness, kindness and beauty back

You'll learn a new and more peaceful way of living and loving

Do you want to cultivate calmness in and around you? This honest and practical book looks at how we can get goodness, kindness, and beauty back into our lives and learn to live and love like Jesus did.
Anna Hockley

Anna Hockley

Eden Christian Books Specialist

An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience—from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award

We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that’s not the world we live in. We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture.

How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls.

Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily.

In Good and Beautiful and Kind, he reveals how…

• These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma.

• We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence.

• The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future—when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus.

Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you…and around you!

Good and Beautiful and Kind and The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of JesusGood and Beautiful and Kind
  • Author

    Villodas Rich

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Waterbrook Press

  • Published

    July 2022

  • Weight

    341g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780525654414

  • ISBN-10

    0525654410

  • Eden Code

    5630812

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Introduction

Part 1 – The Problems that Hinder Love

Chapter 1 — Trauma – The Stories Beneath Us

Loving well requires the patient exploration of the stories beneath us—ours and our neighbors.

Chapter 2 — Defensiveness

The polarization in our world has led to an inability for many to remain present with others, because we don’t have the tools to

remain present with ourselves.

Chapter 3 — Powers and Principalities

The forces that keep us from loving well are not just found within us, or in places our eyes can see.

Part 2 – Interior Pathways of Love

Chapter 4 — Prayer

Prayer is to be the place where love is nurtured. It’s an act that is to envelop us in loving union with God, which enables us to

externalize that love to others.

Chapter 5 – Humility

Humility—often regarded as the most important virtue—is indispensable to cultivate love.

Chapter 6 – Empathy

This chapter will explore one of the most powerful forces to grow in love—empathy.

Part 3 – Exterior Practices of Love

Chapter 7 — Grace and Truth

Loving well requires us to faithfully wrestle with the dualities of life—in particular, the holding together of grace and truth.

Chapter 8 — Forgiveness

The way of Jesus offers us a vision of love that is most profoundly demonstrated in forgiveness.

Chapter 9 — Justice: loving well in public

Loving well in the way of Jesus is not restricted to our private worlds. It is to find its way in the larger, public dimensions of human

life

Rich Villodas is the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship, a large, multiracial church with more than seventy-five countries represented in Elmhurst, Queens. Prior to becoming lead pastor, he gave oversight to New Life's small group ministry and served as preaching pastor. Rich graduated with a BA in pastoral ministry and theology from Nyack College. He went on to complete his master's of divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary. He enjoys reading widely, and preaching and writing on contemplative spirituality, justice-related issues, and the art of preaching. He's been married to Rosie since 2006 and they have two beautiful children, Karis and Nathan.

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