
Steps
A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough
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Narrated by:
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John Ortberg
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By:
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John Ortberg
Is there really any hope for a spiritual way of living that actually works?
Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we’re all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.
In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change but we can’t do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AAs 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for:
- Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own lives
- Distinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futile
- Discovering how God can do for us what we can’t do for ourselves, and
- living authentically, joyfully and in communion with God and other people.
Ortberg shows us how to discover:
- Our spiritual attachment styles
- Our core doubts
- The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulness
- God’s sufficiency in our inadequacy
In Steps, find what’s needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship and a new happiness no matter our circumstances.
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For 35 years since I heard his first message to today reading his most recent book.
It is usually at the time I am crying out to God the Father asking him why about what has gone so wrong, when along comes the familiar voice of John Ortberb. Reminding me I not perfect but I was perfectly made in Gods image. So after painful days of walking alone I reminded that I am never alone. I have learned over again as needed that I am a human, though I may be a sinner, I striving for perfection, and answers. Right when I need it most I get back on track by being real to the God that knows me better than myself. Johns message always feel sent to me for me by God himself.
- That is about the time I wish the book would not be coming to an end. Thank your life lesson for putting my head back on track living my life to serve our God.
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