Ruthless Trust
The Ragamuffin's Path to God
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel bestselling author Brennan Manning shows how true and radical trust in God can transform our lives and invigorate our approach to Christian living.
Manning, beloved author and spiritual teacher, shows us how trust in God can transform our lives and open us up to deeper experiences of grace and love. In Ruthless Trust EPB, he turns his focus from furious love to radical trust, revealing the ways in which trust renews our faith and helps us achieve genuine spiritual growth.
This is a call to a second conversion—a daily renewal of your faith that moves you from fear to freedom:
A Call to Radical Faith: Discover why Manning calls ruthless trust the essential path for the ‘ragamuffin rabble’—the broken, the powerful, and everyone in between who longs for an authentic relationship with God.Overcoming Fear and Self-Pity: Learn why self-pity is the arch-enemy of trust and how to move from a life of anxiety and self-rejection to one of humble confidence and self-acceptance.Finding Grace in Brokenness: Embrace your imperfections as you see how God uses our flaws, like the cracked pot in the parable, to bring unexpected beauty and grace into the world.The Freedom of the Present Moment: Explore the ‘geography of nowhere’ and find the spiritual skill of living fully in the present moment, where God’s presence and peace are truly found.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Manning, the Catholic-priest-turned-itinerant-evangelist who penned The Ragamuffin Gospel, perceptively addresses the intricacies of trusting God, arguing that to trust in God is to bring God joy. He distinguishes this from intellectual assent to Christian teachings and proposes that when Christians add hope--the belief that God will do them good--to faith, then they trust. He acknowledges the problems of evil and pain that make trust difficult, but calls readers to trust God despite these circumstances. The God in whom Manning urges trust is both transcendent in glory and immanent in Christ. Manning suggests that gratitude is the prerequisite to trust, and grateful trust becomes the antidote to both self-flagellation and self-pity. Because the trust he proclaims is so complete, so perfect, Manning calls it "ruthless." The term ragamuffin, made famous in his earlier title, refers to the brokenness and spiritual poverty of people who need God. Although the titular word threatens a too-precious approach, Manning is in fact intellectually strenuous, and the book highly readable; he tells stories and draws upon religious writers from medieval saints down to such present-day authors as Philip Yancey, Dallas Willard, Frederick Buechner and Richard Foster. (Foster provides the foreword.) Fans of those authors should also appreciate Manning's work, finding his call to ruthless trust both commanding and challenging.
