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by: Gary L. Thomas
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
EAN: 9780310272731
ISBN: 0310272734
Label: Zondervan
Manufacturer: Zondervan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: November 01, 2007
Publisher: Zondervan
Sales Rank: 130948
Studio: Zondervan
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Gary Thomas issues a passionate manifesto of faith fully alive. The Beautiful Fight calls us beyond mere sin-avoidance to a robust holiness that radiates Christ through every aspect of our being. To see with Christ’s eyes, feel with Christ’s heart, and serve with Christ’s hands—this is what Christianity is truly about.
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Rating: - The inspiration to live a compelling life.
I really enjoyed this book. The book started off a little slow for me, but after two chapters I found it very engaging. The second section was particularly practical. It helped me to reconsider how I look at spiritual growth. To often my Christian life has been more talk than walk. This book encouraged me to live a more compelling life.
Rating: - The Beautiful Fight
An inspiring, challenging book that reminds us not to take our faith for granted. It offers new perspectives on some of the ruts we tend to fall into, yet keeps to the truth of the Word of God. It challenges us to be completely abandoned to the will of God and to fulfill his calling on our life. One of the best lines from the beginning of the book was that people don't remember you for what you don't do, they remember you for what you do. Christians we are called to action. Let this book encourage ... Read More
Rating: - Oh what a beautiful fight it is, to be transformed
This is the greatest book I have ever read. I love all of Gary Thomas's book. I highly recommend it.
Rating: - Beautiful Spirituality
This newest book from one of Evangelicalism's finest authors on spiritual formation, Gary Thomas, is excellent - one of the best books I've read this year. Thomas takes a fresh look at living a God-empowered life that is grounded in the doctrine of Christ's bodily ascension. Drawing on insights from Evangelical, Reformed, Orthodox, and Catholic traditions, Thomas shows how God's presence can change the way we use our eyes and ears, hands and feet, minds and hearts. The Beautiful Fight is a beautiful book ... Read More
Rating:  - The Beautiful Fight Review
"Beautiful" and "fight," they're two words you don't see together often. Yet in Gary Thomas' latest book The Beautiful Fight they are strung together most excellently. Thomas, adjunct professor at Western Seminary and award winning author, is drawing his title from the Orthodox Fathers' reading of 2nd Timothy 4:7-8. This text, more commonly translated as "the good fight," is aptly illustrated by Thomas as something of furious beauty.
The Christian spiritual life is the common denominator throughout ... Read More
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