Down-to-Earth Spirituality by R Paul Stevens

Down-to-Earth Spirituality by R Paul Stevens

Most books on spirituality focus on disciplines like prayer and Bible study. But this can mislead us into thinking that God can only be experienced when we are doing something spiritual. Apart from private devotional times or church on Sundays, God may seem distant and even irrelevant to our daily lives. R. Paul Stevens has a radically different view of Christian spirituality. True spirituality, he says, is down-to-earth--we encounter God in the ordinary, common stuff of everyday life. Taking his cue from the biblical story of Jacob, Stevens explores the Genesis narrative and uncovers how ordinary moments are made extraordinary, transformed by the presence of God in the midst of the mundane. Dreamer, schemer, worker and entrepreneur, Jacob embodies a multifaceted life of earthy passion and gritty spirituality. Jacob encounters the sacred not only through visions of ladders to heaven and mysterious wrestling matches with angles. Jacob also meets God at home and at work, at meals and in sleep, in solitude and in relationships. From birth to death, through every passage of life, Jacob sees God in the routine details of his everyday experience. Everyday life is the spiritual discipline in which God continuously and graciously meets us, Stevens writes. And in this book, Stevens helps us see that what appears commonplace on the surface actually has great spiritual significance. When we least expect it, God surprises us by re-enchanting our daily experience and making every moment an opportunity to experience his blessing.

R.Paul Stevens is a marketplace ministry mentor and emeritus professor of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has worked as a carpenter and a businessman, as well as serving as the pastor of a Montreal inner-city church. Doing God's Business, Work Matters, Marriage Spirituality, The Other Six Days, and Spiritual Gifts are just a few of his publications and Bible studies. He coauthored The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography with Pete Hammond and Todd Svanoe.

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ISBN 13	9780830823833
ISBN 10	0830823832
Title	Down-to-Earth Spirituality
Author	R Paul Stevens
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	InterVarsity Press
Year published	2003-01-13
Number of pages	208
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