
- 112 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Jesus' life should turn our world upside-down. His first observers, according to Luke, were routinely seized with amazement, both at the bending of physics--making the blind see and lame walk--and at the ridiculous things he did and taught. A careful look at the Jesus of the Gospels sketches a man completely out of touch with conventional thinking; a man radically devoted to living a shocking life for the sake of the broken and forgotten. In popular depictions of Jesus today he seems to be more concerned with upholding a conventional way of life than with overturning our understanding of ourselves. Jesus' life story should lead more to humble servanthood than to syncopated light shows in church or the triumph of a political candidate or a well-ordered and respectable lifestyle.The Upside Down Way is a series of devotionals drawn from the text of Luke. Each devotional is an invitation to a fresh look at the outrageous words and actions of Jesus. Author and pastor Matthew Ingalls combines rigorous historical study with a voice that is unflinchingly bold, reflective, honest, and challenging, in order to elevate Luke's ridiculous Jesus to his rightful position as the fountain of Christian faith.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Questions Are the Beginning of Discipleship
- Chapter 2: Learning to Run Again
- Chapter 3: All the Baptists and Republicans with Me!
- Chapter 4: That Hairy Lunatic in the River
- Chapter 5: Jesus ≠ Power
- Chapter 6: From Marveling to Maleficence
- Chapter 7: Anger in Politics
- Chapter 8: The Credibility of Humility
- Chapter 9: Scarred by Affection
- Chapter 10: Which Jesus?
- Chapter 11: Where Is Your Faith?
- Chapter 12: Fear in the Way
- Chapter 13: Breaking Down the Kitchen Door
- Chapter 14: Money, Health, and Striving
- Chapter 15: Marching up the Hill
- Chapter 16: Swallow Jesus?
- Chapter 17: Yours or Ours?
- Chapter 18: Include Lazarus
- Chapter 19: It Matters Where We Begin
- Chapter 20: The Poor Investor
- Chapter 21: All of Patrick
- Chapter 22: Our Last Table
- Chapter 23: The God Who Suffers and Is with Us
- Chapter 24: An Upside-Down Sentence
- Chapter 25: Suffering, Even on Sunday
- Bibliography