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In this thoughtful, engaging, challenging book, Rick James dives deep into the New Testaments teachings on spiritual wakefulness, calling Christ-followers to defy the darkness and remain awake as they await Christs return. Because being awakecontinually in prayer, watchful for Gods will, expectant of open doors, cautious of sin, desiring to serve, eager to repent, continuously giving thanks, willing to witness, embracing of humility, overflowing with kindness, persevering in obediencechanges everything.
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Rick James is one of the most thought-provoking authors Ive read in a long, long time.
MARK BATTERSON
New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker and lead pastor of National Community Church
Whether you grow up in a Christian community or come to faith later, the practice of that faith can be baffling. Rick James knows this well. Here he charts Christian life from its beginning in basic commitment to its end in glory. Casually, carefully, quickly, with personal stories and vivid illustrations drawn from both literature and ordinary life, he shows readers a clear path through the maze. Lest readers languish, he declares, Wake up! Dont just smell the flowers; follow Christ. Heres how.
JAMES W. SIRE
Author of The Universe Next Door and Apologetics beyond Reason
What I love about Rick James is that he not only wants you to understand Gods message for you, he works hard to tell you stories, to share from his own life, and to bring meaningful, relevant examples of Gods message at work in the world around you. Read Watch and youll notice God whispering to you in your everyday life.
MATT MIKALATOS
Author of Sky Lantern
If youve ever watched a street artist in action, thats Rick James: painting with words, dancing with his craft, evoking rather than pontificating, shepherding the reader toward the aha! moment. As his theme emerges, you will find yourself, like the street audience, applauding. This is the kind of good writing we need. This is also good worship, a true artist offering up his work for Gods glory and our enrichment. May we all stay awake enough to hear him.
SARAH ARTHUR
Author of the Literary Guides to Prayer series and coauthor of The Year of Small Things: Radical Faith for the Rest of Us
Wake up! Open your eyes! You dont want to miss this sweeping narrative of love and hate, good and evil, power and surrender. The author is God himself. The evil antagonist is, of course, the devil. And the star? You, if you will take the role. All this is woven together with profound understanding of the realities of life, with startling analogies and crisp metaphors, epic battles and mind-blowing opportunities. And lots of humor. Most of all, you wont want to miss your part in this story for the ages!
JUDY DOUGLASS
Writer; speaker; encourager; head of Womens Resources, Office of the PresidentCampus Crusade for Christ International/Cru; and author of Letters to My Children: Secrets of Success
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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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ISBN 978-1-63146-508-6
ISBN 978-1-63146-509-3 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-63146-510-9 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-63146-511-6 (Apple)
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To my precious onesAvery, Whitney, and Will
I N HIS BOOK A Million Ways to Die, Rick wrote about what it means to carry the cross and die to self. I particularly liked this quotation:
Death has exactly zero intrinsic value. Its just that death is the only road that happens to be headed to resurrection, transformation, and transfiguration. By definition, resurrection can only be experienced by something dead, and this is what inflates the value of death. Death has been swallowed up in victory (1 Cor. 15:54), swallowed up by life (2 Cor. 5:4). Death is just something for eternal life to consume, digest, and metabolize into life.
This is a great insight into what it means to die with Christ. I enjoy that about Ricks writingits insightful, and he look at familiar truth in unfamiliar ways.
In Watch, Rick explores the corollary to carrying the cross: living out the resurrected life of our Lord JesusChrist in us, for us, through us. There are plenty of motivating Christian books, but whats unique is that Rick has strung together all of the biblical motivations to spiritual wakefulness. In tracing all of the stay-awake, be-alert teachings of Jesus and of the rest of the New Testament, what we see is the consistent, compelling theology of wakefulness that courses through Scripture. This is not a book encouraging Christians to live more awake and alive to Christ; its a book expounding the biblical charge to live more awake and alive to Christ. It highlights Scriptures teachings, warnings, and motivationsScriptures reasons for staying awake and Scriptures instructions on how.
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