PAUL: The Work Entrusted: A Contemplative Journey Revealing Calling and Community - Couverture souple

Carr, Cindy H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 197119235X ISBN 13 : 9781971192352

Editeur : CHC Connect, 2026

Synopsis

Paul: The Work Entrusted: A Contemplative Journey Revealing Calling and Community invites you to step inside the book of Acts and experience Paul’s story with fresh intimacy. Written by Dr. Cindy H. Carr, this contemplative narrative is Scripture-adjacent, not Scripture-added, staying anchored in Acts and Paul’s letters while imaginatively entering the moments between the lines. Read it in one sweep like a spiritual memoir, or move through it slowly as a companion for prayer and formation.

Through first-person retellings rooted in Scripture, you will follow a calling that begins in interruption, deepens in hidden seasons, and is refined through conflict, restraint, and love. Paul is carried by others when the road turns dangerous, protected by community when courage would become recklessness, and taught to measure faithfulness by obedience rather than applause. You will sit in a prison cell where midnight worship becomes an opening for a jailer’s rescue, then watch Ephesus erupt as the gospel disturbs comfort, profit, and identity, inviting a whole city to choose freedom even when it costs something real. You will also enter long seasons of custody and waiting, where patience becomes active endurance and the entrusted work continues through steady truth.

In Athens, Paul learns to listen before speaking, to notice what a city worships and to name Jesus without hiding behind familiar language. In the barracks, in Caesarea, and in a rented room in Rome, the story insists that the gospel is not hindered by closed doors. When the platform disappears, hospitality becomes mission, and quiet ordinary days become the ending.

Each chapter ends with a Formation Pause, inviting you to breathe, reflect, and pray with prompts that translate Paul’s road into your own questions: Where are you living in delay? What shortcut is offering relief at the cost of integrity? Who has protected your calling through ordinary care? If you are discerning direction, rebuilding after disappointment, leading others, or learning to stay faithful in obscurity, this book offers more than inspiration. It gives you a practiced way to listen, to yield, to welcome, and to keep walking one faithful step at a time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CHC Connect
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 197119235X
• ISBN 13: 9781971192352
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 217
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