Steps
eBook - ePub

Steps

A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Steps

A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

About this book

Is there really any hope for a spiritual way of living that actually works?

Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we're all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.

In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change but we can't do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AAs 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for:
  • Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own lives
  • Distinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futile
  • Discovering how God can do for us what we can't do for ourselves, and
  • Living authentically, joyfully and in communion with God and other people.
Ortberg shows us how to discover:
  • Our spiritual attachment styles
  • Our core doubts
  • The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulness
  • God's sufficiency in our inadequacy
In Steps, find what's needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship and a new happiness no matter our circumstances.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Endorsements
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. Step 1: The Problem: I Can’t
  10. Step 2: The Solution: He Can
  11. Step 3: The Decision: I Think I’ll Let Him
  12. Step 4: The Examination: A Fearless Inventory
  13. Step 5: The Confession: Into the Light
  14. Step 6: The Preparation: Became Entirely Ready
  15. Step 7: The Petition: Humble Asking
  16. Step 8: The Damage: Named Those We’ve Harmed
  17. Step 9: The Reparation: Made Amends
  18. Step 10: The Repetition: Continual Inventory
  19. Step 11: The Connection: The With-God Life
  20. Step 12: The Vocation: Helping Others
  21. Epilogue: The Thirteenth Step
  22. Acknowledgments