{"product_id":"face-to-face","title":"Face to Face: Meditations On Friendship And Hospitality","description":"\u003ch3\u003eIt's easy to stay out of each other's lives, because living in community takes work. It is time we recovered the biblical art of hospitality.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value=\"{\u0026quot;1\u0026quot;:2,\u0026quot;2\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;We tend to think being \\\u0026quot;stressed out\\\u0026quot; is a normal state of affairs, and that contentment means sitting back and just bottling things up. For the Christian, however, contentment is something we must apply, work at, and make our own in every circumstance, because anxiety and frustration are not neutral behaviors.\\nIt is certainly easier to go with our natural impulses when times are very hard or even just \\\u0026quot;annoying,\\\u0026quot; but contentment is an important part of our Christian life. Even the apostle Paul had to \\\u0026quot;learn\\\u0026quot; contentment. So we shouldn't wonder why we're still in spiritual kindergarten—repeating the same lessons over and over again—if we haven't given ourselves to study contentment. Thankfully, every test God gives on contentment is open book (even the pop quizzes!). In Learning Contentment, Nancy Wilson looks to the Bible and Puritans like Jeremiah Burroughs, Samuel Rutherford, Thomas Watson, and Charles Spurgeon to help us develop the practical, spiritual strength and the perspective that comes from contentment's deep satisfaction with the will of God. This encouraging little book follows after Nancy Wilson's Virtuous: A Study for Ladies of Every Age. Learning Contentment includes concise explanations, application questions and assignments that will involve and challenge everyone, and lots of biblical wisdom for individuals and groups.\u0026quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #6fa8dc;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/T-108.pdf?2635\" title=\"Face to Face Look Inside the Book Sample\" style=\"color: #6fa8dc; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eLook Inside the Book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGod created us to live in bonds of society and friendship, not as hermits. The Christian faith presents friendship and hospitality not as luxuries but necessities. God does not save us in isolation but in community with other people. There is no possibility of living to the glory of God apart from godly companions. In this book based on a series of sermons, Steve Wilkins seeks to call us back to the joyous obligations of friendship and hospitality.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Inspiring! Having recently been welcomed by a group of people who do very well at hospitality, and recognizing that showing our kids how to do this well will be a very important part of their education, I hope to put many of the suggestions in this book into practice in the coming year. It will take conscious effort (particularly because of the difficulties involved in having little children), but that is one of the strongest points in the book: that hospitality should not only be practiced when convenient or when an opportunity obviously presents itself\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Katherine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"So many people have forgotten the basic fundamentals of friendship and hospitality. We like to think we're friends to many and hospitable as well, but are we really? Wilkins calls us to examine the nature of biblical friendship and hospitality, both of which are sadly lacking in 21st century America.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-a reader\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteven Wilkins \u003c\/strong\u003eis a minister of the Church of the Redeemer in Birmingham, Alabama (CREC). He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCall of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAll Things for Good: The Steadfast Fidelity of Stonewall Jackson\u003c\/em\u003e, and edited \u003cem\u003eThe Federal Vision\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/T-108.pdf?2635\"\u003eLook Inside the Book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAUTHOR: Steve Wilkins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAGE COUNT: 148 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIZE: 5.50x8.50\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBINDING: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 10: 1591280664\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781591280668\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePUB. 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