Hustling God - Softcover

Barnes, M. Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310239524 ISBN 13: 9780310239529

Publisher: Zondervan, 2001

Synopsis

We work hard at life. We try to get better jobs, better homes, better relationships, and even a better spirituality. We are like Jacob in the Old Testament. His name means "striver, schemer, supplanter, hustler." He could have been the poster boy for the American Dream.But author Craig Barnes says this is not the way we should be living our lives. We should not try to manipulate and hustle ourselves into a place of advantage with God, a position that has been ours all along. After all, God is the one who climbed down the ladder to be with us. Using true anecdotes from the men, women, and families of the churches he has served, Barnes invites hard-running, stressed-out, burned-out people to stop striving. Life is not something we grasp and clutch to us, but a gift God freely gives. Only when we open our hands can God fill them with the blessings he has been waiting to lavish upon us all along.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Jacob's name means striver, schemer, supplanter, hustler. He could also be a poster boy for the American dream. He spent most of his life striving to grab what he could only receive as a gift from God. Jacob's story is our story--we spend our lives getting better degrees, better jobs, better homes, better relationships, and even a better spirituality. But no matter how much we accomplish, we are never satisfied. Hustling God is the story of our spiritual journey as seen through the life of Jacob. It is a reflection on our own spiritual drama as we work to gain an advantage with God that is ours all along, if we only have the eyes to see it. From our resolve to grab life with gusto through years of working to achieve our goals, to the crisis that leads us to the blessing we so craved in the first place, Craig Barnes outlines our life journey and its inevitable outcome. Offering a reflective, biblical look at what it means to accept life as a gift, this book is filled with true anecdotes of men, women, and families like ourselves, who have populated the middle-American churches Barnes has served. Hustling God ultimately demonstrates that life is a gift from God and that when we accept that gift instead of trying to control it, we learn to value and enjoy who we are and what we have.

From the Author:

Dr. M. Craig Barnes, senior pastor of The National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., is on the Adjunct Faculty of Regent College and on the Board of Trustees of Princeton Seminary. A cancer survivor, he is the author of Yearning: Living Between How It Is and How It Ought to Be and When God Interrupts: Finding New Life Through Unwanted Change. He was recently listed among Christianity Today’s up-and-coming new leaders. He lives in Bethesda, MD

About this edition

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0310239524
• ISBN 13: 9780310239529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204