Pursuing the Passion of Jesus: How "Loving the Least" Helps You Fulfill God's Purpose for Your Life - Softcover

Dwight K Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816320438 ISBN 13: 9780816320431

Publisher: Pacific Press Publishing Assoc, 2005

Synopsis

What moves God to tears? What causes His heart to ache with desire? If God could sleep, what would keep Him up at night? What is the real "passion" of Jesue? And do we share that same passion? Mere churchgoers may be surprised at the answer, True followers of Jesus won't be becasue they know the aanswer lies not on the padded peew, but on a skidrow sidewalk, in an understaffed AIDS clinic, a battered women's shelter, a refugee camp, a drug- and gang- infested inner- city housing project. Jesus has a passionate love affair with the poor. The downtrodden. The margin-alized. The forgotten. And nowhere in Scripture is this passion more clearly defined than in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah—God's passionate plea to His slumbering people to care about the things He cares about. In Pursuing the Passion of Jesus, noted pastor and author Dwight Nelson opens this powerful but often overlooked chapter in the Bible and shows in eye-opening detail how loving the least&md

About this edition

• Publisher: Pacific Press Publishing Assoc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0816320438
• ISBN 13: 9780816320431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 111