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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
Even the moral disasters will be received by God as they come to rely on Jesus, count on him, and make him their companion in his kingdom. Murderers and child-molesters. The brutal and the bigoted. Drug lords and pornographers. War criminals and sadists. Terrorists. The perverted and the filthy and the filthy rich. The David Berkowitzs (“Son of Sam”), Jeffrey Dahmers, and Colonel Noriegas.
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
The weekly habit of fasting, then, is a way to lean into both the emptiness of the world as it is and prayer for the coming fullness of the world as it will be. The world doesn’t end in fasting, of course, but in a feast. Above all, we fast because we long for the wedding supper of the Lamb.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
If the lost lamb got a party, and all the neighbors get called over for a missing coin, imagine what kind of bash-of-the-century God throws for a runaway child come home.
The Pursuing God
Joshua Ryan Butler
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