Ashley Hales

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  Spacious Life : Trading Hustle And Hurry For The Goodness Of Limits

  $17.00

  We’re told that freedom and opportunity are our ticket to the good life.

  Get out there and follow your dreams! Be the hero of your own story! Find your happiness! Live your best life! It seems that limitless possibilities await anyone with vision and willingness to hustle their way through life. The thing is, instead of resulting in a sense of accomplishment, this limitlessness merely has us doing more and trying harder–leaving us depleted and dissatisfied. With life and faith. So Ashley Hales invites us to discover a better way: a more spacious life. Contrary to what we’ve believed, the good life we crave is not accomplished through unfettered options or even hustle and hurry. In fact, it can only be found in the confines of God’s loving limits. Ashley helps us recognize that when we live within these limits, we discover a life filled with purpose, joy, and rest. This is the spacious life–finding true freedom within the good limits given to us by our good God.

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  Finding Holy In The Suburbs

  $16.00

  Introduction
  1. Worshiping Granite Countertops
  2. When Your Worth Is Measured In Square Footage
  3. Circling The Suburbs In My Minivan
  4. Beyond The Gated Community
  5. Where The Sidewalk Ends
  6. You’re Not A Barbie, You Belong
  7. This Isn’t Pinterest-Worth Entertaining
  8. Open Hearts And Open Hands
  9. The Opportunity Of Cul-De-Sacs
  10. Paper Birds And Human Flourishing
  Conclusion
  Discussion Questions

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  Commuters. Tract homes. Strip malls.

  Is this what you think of when you think of the suburbs? Or do you think of safety, beauty, comfort, and ease?

  More than half of Americans live in the suburbs. Ashley Hales writes that for many Christians, however: “The suburbs are ignored (‘Your place doesn’t matter, we’re all going to heaven anyway’), denigrated and demeaned (‘You’re selfish if you live in a suburb; you only care about your own safety and advancement’), or seen as a cop-out from a faithful Christian life (‘If you really loved God, you’d move to Africa or work in an impoverished area’). In everything from books to Hollywood jokes, the suburbs aren’t supposed to be good for our souls.”

  What does it look like to live a full Christian life in the suburbs? Suburbs reflect our good, God-given desire for a place to call home. And suburbs also reflect our own brokenness. This book is an invitation to look deeply into your soul as a suburbanite and discover what it means to live holy there.

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