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Garden City

Copyright 2015 by John Mark Comer

ePub Edition April 2017: ISBN 978-0-310-33732-4

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Comer, John Mark, 1980

Garden city : work, rest, and the art of being human / John Mark Comer. 1 [edition].

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-310-33731-7 (hardcover)

1. Theological anthropology Christianity. 2. Vocation Christianity. 3. Work Religious aspects Christianity. 4. Christian life. I. Title.

BT701.3.C65 2015

248.4 dc23

2015015500

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In Garden CityJohn Mark Comer takes the reader on a journey from creation to the final heavenly city. But the journey is designed to let each of us see where we are to find ourselves in Gods good plan to partner with us in the redemption of all creation. Smack-dab in the middle of this set of ideas is Comers excellent sketch of work, a sketch I find both pastorally mature and an exhortation to each of us to know that all we do has value before God. There is in Garden Cityan intoxication with the Bibles biggest and life-changing ideas.

Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary

There is an awakening happening in the Western church.