With Scripture as My Compass: Meditations for the Journey
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ISBN: 0687038111 / Publisher: Abingdon Press, October 2004
The author applies the insight gained during his years in the seminary and as an Episcopal priest to these meditations, each beginning with Scripture, that ask questions of both heart and head. Original.
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Whether he is at the airport, in a board room, at hisson’s graduation, or trying to get his grass to grow, Tom Ehrich takes time tonotice the presence of God. In these 50 brief meditations, he exploresthe struggles of both heart and head. He asks many of the questions eachof us asks on our journey with and toward God.Each meditation begins with a scripture passage. Theauthor then looks back over the day, using that passage to think about--andhelp us think about--how God wants us to live. His reflections are oftenmore about asking good questions than finding the “right” answers. The fivethemes in the book are: Certainty Versus Uncertainty, Family andCommunity, Control Versus Freedom, Hope, and Journey to Faith. "My aim is to help people experience God through the power of stories. Stories aren’ttheories or theologies. Stories are glimpses. The aim ofstories isn’t to sway opinion or to recruit followers, but to encourage seeing.No story is complete in itself, no story speaks to every person, no storyis free of ambiguity. Jesus was a story-teller.It is time we…. stepped forward asstory-tellers in a troubled world, as servants and door-openers,as companions to the broken, as far more humble and uncertain than ourcreeds suggest us to be, more like pilgrims thanexperts." –excerpt from the IntroductionA scripture index is included.
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