Status
Available
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Publication
Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2009.
Description
I have never met a person whose goal was to ruin his or her life. We all want to be happy, and we want it all of the time.' So begins James Bryan Smith in The Good and Beautiful Life. The problem is, he tells, that people have bought into false notions of happiness and success. These self-centered decisions lead further into the vices that cause ruin: anger, lust, lying, worry, and judging. Eventually people find themselves living a beautifully packaged life of self-destruction. Following the Sermon on the Mount, this follow-up to The Good and Beautiful God is a guide to look behind these character flaws and to replace false beliefs with Jesus' narratives about life in the kingdom of God.
LCC
BV625.S65 2010
Physical description
262 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
9780830835324
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