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J-Curve

Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life

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J-Curve

By: Paul E. Miller
Narrated by: Marcus Jackman
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"This book will revolutionize the way you look at your suffering." (Joni Eareckson Tada, Founder, Joni and Friends)

Do we have the wrong map for the Christian life?

Life's inconveniences, disappointments, and trials can leave us confused, cynical, and eventually bitter. But the apostle Paul traces out the path of dying and rising with Jesus — what Paul Miller calls the “J-Curve” — as the normal Christian life.

The J-Curve maps the ups and downs of daily life onto the story of Jesus. It grounds our journeys not in some abstract idea but in union with Christ and his work of love. Understanding our lives in light of the J-Curve roots our hope, centers our love, and tethers our faith to Christ.

©2020 Paul E. Miller (P)2020 Crossway
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A crucial and fresh articulation of a much neglected biblical theme.

The contemporary church needs this book to show that the path of obedience to Jesus requires a readiness and expectation that the way up is down. We expect it regarding persecution in countries hostile to the gospel, but in peaceful nations we assume that life following Jesus will be similarly comfortable to unbelievers, if not more comfortable because we have the meaning and purpose that Jesus gives us. But we don't get to define our own humiliation and we need to see that every failure and downward path is part of necessary self denial and crucification of our ego. Only then will we pursue and experience the reality that God gives grace to the humble.

We need this book! And Paul Miller's (sometimes trite but also profound) illustrations of the J-Curve in his own life are very helpful to give us ideas of how the Lord is working in our own failures, sufferings and weaknesses to show us more of His grace.

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To read or listen to this is to suffer!

The author is so proud of his humble, self-effacing behaviour, that he writes it all down in a book!

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