Now You Can Stop Running
Finding the Rest Your Soul Desperately Needs
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
You can find the deep peace you've been longing for--and that God has promised.
Because of spiritual brokenness, we humans run. We seek to escape fear, disappointment, unresolved trauma, and unhealed wounds of the past, but no matter how hard we try, we can't seem to run far enough or fast enough to finally be free . . . yet we keep running anyway. But God wants so much more for us.
Pastor, speaker, and author Terry Crist has spent much of his life running from the pain of past trauma and toward the empty promises of what he thought would satisfy his soul. In Now You Can Stop Running, he leads you on a journey toward sanctuary--where you will find not just respite but transformation, not just shelter but home--as you learn how to find authentic rest and spiritual wholeness in the boundless love of God.
With rich wisdom and profound pastoral insights, Crist helps us:
Understand our own stories--why we run, what we're running from, and who or what we're running towardDiscern between the false promises of the world that create chaos and true refuge in the God who offers peaceEncounter God through freshly told stories of faithful believers in the Bible who also "ran for their lives"Engage spiritual practices that will guide us through our past pain, give meaning to our present struggles, and illuminate our path forward with hope
The same God who loved and guided Jacob, Moses, Hagar, and David walks alongside us today. His rest is genuine, and the refuge he promises is safe and secure.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Christians should stop running "from things that hurt us or... toward what we think will fulfill us" and seek refuge in God, according to this empathetic if uneven guide from pastor Crist (Loving Samaritans). Contending that most people are running from trauma or challenging emotions they lack the tools to fix, and that doing so can foster addictions and other evasive behavior, he advises readers on how to transform difficult feelings into positive ones through a mix of introspection and spiritual practice. For example, readers can deal with guilt by sharing their sins with God, whom Crist casts as a forgiving rather than a distant and punitive figure, or mitigate anger by extending God's grace to those against whom they have grudges. While such solid counsel can get lost in a glut of examples featuring biblical figures (some of which are more effective than others), Crist skillfully draws links between self-acceptance and faith as a form of acceptance by God. Readers seeking spiritual sustenance will be satisfied.
