Overflowing Mercies: 100 Meditations on the Tender Heart of God - Couverture rigide

Cooper, Craig Allen

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ISBN 10 : 0802432697 ISBN 13 : 9780802432698

Editeur : Moody Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

What if your life was immersed in mercy? In a culture that is short on compassion, maybe that’s difficult to imagine. We can all attest to the hardening impact of judgment and criticism; there’s not nearly enough patience or tenderness in the world. Maybe you’re in the middle of a hard season and feel disheartened. Or you’re struggling to show mercy and kindness to the people in your life. What if you could savor the warmth of God's unending love towards you? In Overflowing Mercies, Cooper opens readers to the beautiful, merciful heart of our triune God. In this 100-day devotional, you will be comforted as you meditate on God’s character. You will find courage in His promises to you. And as you soak deeply in God’s love and compassion, you will become better equipped to love and bless the family, friends, and people God has placed in your life.

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CRAIG ALLEN COOPER is a USA Today bestselling author and keynote speaker. He cowrote the book Glad You’re Here with Grammy-nominated country singer-songwriter Walker Hayes. Glad You’re Here instantly became a Publishers Weekly, ECPA, and USA Today national bestseller and has been featured on The Today Show, People magazine, Family Life Radio, and more. Craig served as one of the founding pastors of Redeeming Grace Church in Franklin, Tennessee, and is the founder of Glad You’re Here Ministries. He resides in the greater Nashville area with his lovely wife, Laura, and their four kids. You can follow Craig on Instagram @craigallencooper and learn more at craigallencooper.com.

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Overflowing Mercies
100 Meditations on the Tender Heart of God

By Craig Allen Cooper
Moody Publishers

Copyright © 2024 Craig Allen Cooper
All rights reserved.
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8024-3269-8
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8024-7279-3

Excerpt—A Note to the Reader

God’s love for you is mesmerizing. It is more astonishing than all the wonders of the world and grandeur of the galaxies combined. Anything beautiful or magnificent in creation that has ever stolen your breath away is but a whisper of God’s glory that is meant to disclose His ardent and tender affection for you.

You are relentlessly on the mind of God, and you are incessantly in the heart of God. If you could fathom in some small way how warmly God truly feels about you, the faintest grasp of His immeasurable affection would reduce you to tearful wonder and heartfelt gratitude. It would also make an extraordinary impact on the way you live your life and the way you love those within your relational spheres.

This is the aim of Overflowing Mercies: to unveil the tender heart of God for you. This work is written as a devotional book, intended to aid the reader in communion with God. For some, this will be an introduction to scriptural meditation. (If communion with God is new to you, my prayer is that as you read the entries in this book, they would be like kindling for your soul, sparking a love for God and His Word that will draw you into the Bible itself in a transformative way that you have never experienced before.)

For others who may be accustomed to reading devotional books, my goal has been to provide you with an additional resource that will serve as a means of comfort, strength, and encouragement to you, with its 100 daily entries on God’s tender mercy. Who doesn’t need more comfort? Who couldn’t use more strength? Do you know anyone too encouraged? I sure don’t.

Here are three suggested uses for Overflowing Mercies:

Personal Devotions—This book is intended to be read alongside the Bible. My hope is that every entry whets your appetite for more of Scripture. Each entry includes scriptural references, and I invite you to look them up, study them in depth, and see for yourself the treasures in God’s Word.

Family/Dinner Table Devotions—For years, our family has benefited from devotional helps for dinner table discussions. After a meal, we may read an entry of a devotional book and ask a question or two to spark spiritual conversations. I am grateful for the resources that have served our family in this way, and I pray that Overflowing Mercies will be of similar help to other families. I’ve included at least one question for reflection after each entry to help guide these types of discussions.

Small Group Encouragement—Any of these meditations can be read at the beginning of a small group meeting to quickly direct the group’s attention to God’s heart for us in Jesus.

However you choose to use this book, my prayer is “that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:17–19).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Moody Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802432697
• ISBN 13: 9780802432698
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible