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David Adam
(CD)
Product code: 1490157
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Description:
Passing the Test is for those who are not reaching their potential and feel that they are living below par. It is to help you to extend yourself and your vision. This is a chance to lay aside the things that hamper your life and to set your sights. Come and discover the gifts of the presence and power of God, which he offers to you. Face the realities of your life and where it is going, making sure you do not miss out on your spiritual heritage. Learn from the temptations in the wilderness and the reaction of Jesus to them. Discover that you can combat emptiness and doubt and be filled with the love of God.
Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Session 1: Temptation and Divided Loyalties
Session 2: The Wilderness and Doubt
Session 3: The Bread of Life
Session 4: The Dangers of Holy Fire
Session 5: Everyone has a Price
Session 6: The Powers of good and Evil
MORE ABOUT THE BOOK
Passing the Test is a Lent course for groups or individuals in the same style and format as David Adam?s extremely popular Knowing and Growing and Looking and Longing.
The course is divided into 6 sessions, an hour each, and it uses a well-tested approach based on the Church?s ancient tradition of prayer and reading Scripture called ?Lectio Divina? or ?Holy Reading?. David Adam explains how we should do this in five stages: REST ? stop, let go and relax, make room for new things to happen to us; REALISE ? remind ourselves of the presence of God; READ ? the chosen passage from Scripture; RUMINATE ? chew over what we have read, and let the Scripture sink into our hearts; and RESPOND ? how do we react, how can what we?ve read change us? Each chapter or session includes suggested hymns, opening and closing prayers, readings, and reflections on themes drawn from the Scripture passages.
The book?s main theme is Jesus being led by the Spirit into the wilderness, his temptations, fasting and preparation for his ministry: the time when Jesus sought to be alone with his Father and look towards his work to come. Lent, David Adam explains, is a time to challenge us and for us to get into training so that we can deepen our relationship with God. It is a time for throwing off restrictions and all the things that hamper us or hold us back, and for cutting away what restricts our growth and prevents us doing what we are capable of. Passing the Test helps us to reach our full potential and move towards being the people God calls us to be so that we are no longer living below par, not achieving our dreams and visions, our true freedom and the abundance of life God wants for us.
The CD contains David?s spoken words from the book together with the music he suggests in the course.
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