Serious Christians and new believers alike are looking for ways to grow in their faith. But does spiritual discipline imply sticking to a rigid diet of prayer and Bible study, church meetings and community service? No! In a friendly, conversational style, Jo Kadlecek invites Christians to come and feast at Gods banquet table. 
Using the analogy of the four basic food groups, she shows how God wants to nourish his people with a balanced life so that they can have a healthy impact in the world: 
-Solitude with God restores and directs us. -Out of our time alone with God flows compassionate service to others. -Our relationships in Christian community support and challenge us. -Through contemplation of truth our minds are renewed, our lives transformed. 
Seasoned with anecdotes and quotations and sprinkled with interactive challenges, each chapter encourages readers to draw near to God and experience the abundance of his table.

Feast of Life: Spiritual Food for Balanced Living

Religion & Spirituality

Kadlecek, Jo

Christian Books & Bibles

Baker Pub Group

If the Bible can be thought of as the grand story of God, many of its main characters are passionate and even desperate men and women. Jo Kadlecek introduces us to eight biblical women driven by their passion and desperation to seek out Jesus. She explores their stories in their cultural context, then draws out the lessons they hold for contemporary readers who are willing to let an encounter with Jesus change their lives. In studying these eight characters, readers will find new insights into the central character of God's great story Jesus and how he can transform their desperation and their passions and bring their lives new hope. List Of Women And Biblical References: Samaritan Woman, John 4: 142 Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath, Luke 13:1017 The Widow (Who Makes an Offering), Mark 12:3544 A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman, Mark 5:2143 A Widow (Who's Son is Raised by Jesus), Luke 7:1117 A Sinful Woman (Who Jesus Annoints), Luke 7:3650 A Syrophoenician Woman, Mark 7:2430A Canaanite Woman, Matthew 15:2129

Desperate Women of the Bible: Lessons on Passion from the Gospels

Baker Books

Why did Jesus spend forty days on earth after his death when he could have returned home to the majesty of heaven? And out of all the people on the planet at that time who could have helped him get a major religious movement off the ground, why did he seek out those who had run the other way when he was crucified? In this fascinating book, Jo Kadlecek shows readers how the disciples who saw Jesus after his death were changed from sometimes bumbling scaredycats to pillars of the Christian faith. She invites readers to experience their own transformation in every part of life relationships, jobs, finances, family, and more as they come to a new understanding and appreciation of the basis of the faith: the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Desperate Faith, A: Lessons of Hope from the Resurrection

Four women confront the personal challenges, corporate injustices, and religious hypocrisies that ironically have led them toward a passionate commitment to racial reconciliation and healing.

I Call You Friend: Four Women's Stories of Race, Faith, and Friendship

Politics & Social Sciences

Toussaint, Pamela

Sociology

B & H Pub Group

A minister tells the story of his journey coming to terms with the message of Christ in the turbulent and chaotic circumstances of the inner city environment on New York City's lower east side.

A Church Called Graffiti: Finding Grace on the Lower East Side

History

Field, Taylor

World

Broadman&Holman

A collection of touching and personal essays celebrates God's redeeming love at work in the intricacy of all His creations.

Winter Flowers: And Other Signs of Redemption

Worship & Devotion

This wonderful uplifting book: Resurrecting Hope by John Perkins with Jo Kadleck is a powerful book of stories of how God is moving to reach our Cities. Resurrecting Hope provides an exciting look at 12 churches that God is using to make a difference in their Cities. Read all about innovation partnerships between suburban and urban churches

Resurrecting Hope

Perkins, John M.

Bible studies on the life of Peter examine his letters, the book of Acts, and the Gospels. He was impulsive, arrogant, and passionate to a fault. Yet Jesus chose him to lead the early church. Peter, one of the most colorful of Jesus’ disciples, paints the picture of a man who wants desperately to be holy but is hampered by being all too human. Sound familiar? Reckless Faith looks at this caustic, cocky, cowardly, chosen man and what his life has to say to Christians today. Through a study of his letters, the book of Acts, and the Gospels, Peter springs off the page as one who held nothing back, lived large, and was used by God despite his most sinful nature. This Fisherman Resource includes author commentary, interactive questions, and opportunities for reflection as you discover how God allows us to come to him as holy and human. Great for individual study or in a group, Reckless Faith will show you that being a follower of God doesn’t necessarily mean having it all together.

Reckless Faith: Living Passionately as Imperfect Christians (Fisherman Resources Series)

Shaw Books

Jump on in. Even with fear and trembling. “I think I have been learning about faith as long as I have lived in fear. Maybe longer. Whenever I am afraid, it is because I am also believing in something unseen, and like faith, it too requires an agile imagination. Both seem to have a way of growing bigger depending on how much attention we give them although one seems fed by truth and goodness while the other is fanned by worry and dreaded ‘what ifs.’” “Sort of like jumping into the sea though your stomach is as jittery as the boat and you call on God out of sheer absolute desperation though you feel anything but spiritual. You feel fear, in fact. Everywhere. But somehow once your skin is submerged in water, that same fear melts into a fear of God and it grips you, holds you close, keeps you safe. Makes you new. And your fear of water, or of men, or of loneliness, or of different people, or of being disabled or forgotten, dissolves like ice cubes on a summer day. You hardly notice the change but you drink it up and thirst for more.” “This too, like faith, is a gift. Coming from the One who knew before you did that to soothe your soul was his job, not yours. Yours was to jump.” —from the book Jo Kadlecek’s masterful storytelling and image-rich life navigates us through fearful episodes and moments of joy. You will grapple honestly with questions of truth, faith, and spiritual freedom. Kadlecek’s God understands and calms fear—a God at work in the inner-city or poolside. Join Kadlecek in finding encouragement and hope as together you comb the shoreline of fear.

Fear: A Spiritual Navigation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Random House Publishing Group

Big City Dreams, Small Town Hopes Their worlds couldn’t be farther apart, but they share a common mission.Jordan Riddle, an aspiring playwright and part-time waitress, revels in the pulse and rumble, the joy and pain of life in New York City. While waiting for her big break, she embraces every chance to speak grace to those around her. Peter Riddle, her father, is assistant pastor at the Second Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. Here, he first found faith as a child and now feels called to articulate mercy to the members of his community. Despite their shared calling, each manages to disappoint and misunderstand the other, and five years of silence between them has reached the breaking point. In this compelling story, father and daughter struggle to find the words that give hope to the people around them, but the different ways they pursue this passion destroys their relationship. As a shared grief emerges from the past, neither is prepared for the cost required to heal the painful disappointment that separates them. Mirroring the tension that arises when art and faith collide, The Sound of My Voice provides a penetrating exploration of questions vital to our search for truth in a postmodern world.

The Sound of My Voice

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

WaterBrook Press

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