Marva Dawn has an insider's view of the many spiritual, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical difficulties encountered by people with chronic illness and disabilities. She knows from experience how to nurture hope in spite of infirmity.Filled with insight and practical help, each chapter of Being Well When We're Ill focuses on one particular kind of struggle, such as worry, guilt, the loss of meaning, or the loss of confidence and trust that God is present and personally lo...

"But I don't wanna go to church!" Marva Dawn has often heard that cry—and not only from children. "What a sad commentary it is on North American spirituality," she writes, "that the delight of 'keeping the Sabbath day' has degenerated into the routine and drudgery—even the downright oppressiveness—of 'going to church.'"According to Dawn, the phrase "going to church" both reveals and promotes bad theology: it suggests that the church is a static place when in fact the churc...

In this prophetic call to faithful Christian living, Marva Dawn identifies the epidemic socio-cultural attitudes that destroy hope in our modern lives. Because affluent persons don't know what to value--how to choose what's important and weed out the rest--we remain dissatisfied with what we have and are compelled to want more. Dawn demonstrates, however, how Christians can organize their lives to live in ways that allow them to love God and neighbor and, in the process, alleviate the desp...

Best-selling authors Marva Dawn and Eugene Peterson offer encouragement to pastors.Pastors are strategically placed to counter the culture. No other profession looks so inoffensive but is in fact so dangerous to the status quo. Their weapon? A gospel that is profoundly countercultural. But standing firm in today's world isn't easy. Powerful forces, both subtle and obvious, attempt to domesticate pastors, to make them, in a word, unnecessary.In this book, two of today's most r...

Neste livro, dois dos autores mais respeitados de hoje ajudam os pastores a recuperar sua identidade e manter uma visão pura da liderança cristã. Marva Dawn e Eugene Peterson reconectam pastores com os textos bíblicos que irá treiná-los como servos contraculturais do evangelho. Marva Dawn examina a carta de Paulo aos Efésios e a instrução para as igrejas que procuram viver fielmente. Por sua vez, Eugene Peterson explora Romanos, 1 e 2Timóteo e Tito, extraindo dessas cartas a visão correta ...