The Sins We Love: Embracing Brokenness, Hoping for Wholeness - Hardcover

Rowland, Randy

 
9780385497039: The Sins We Love: Embracing Brokenness, Hoping for Wholeness
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385497032 ISBN 13: 9780385497039
Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

An thoughtful meditation on the causes of sins focuses on the short-term emotional and physical gratification of the "Seven Deadly Sins," reminding readers that God forgives and in fighting sin, they can come closer to the divine.

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Randy Rowland is the president of Sound Images, Inc., a media and marketing consulting and production firm. He has taught at Seattle Pacific University's School of Business and Economics, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Pacific School of Religion. Rowland is perhaps better known as the public address announcer for the Seattle Seahawks. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Rowland is senior pastor of Church at the Center, PC (USA), in Seattle, Washington, where he lives with his wife, Nancy, and their two children.

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sman, theology professor, and senior pastor, author Randy Rowland uses his intimate understanding of worldly and spiritual matters to investigate what makes sins so difficult to overcome. Part of the spell sins cast is attributable to the immediate emotional or physical gratification they give. This pull can be as irrationally compelling as a siren's call: we know following it can separate us from God and the chance for abiding happiness, yet we go on. Sins persist, as well, because of our talent for rationalizing them. It's easy to provide ready-made excuses--such as "Other people do worse things every day" or "This is nothing that hasn't been done before"--for practically every sin we commit. Rowland illustrates how the first step to breaking free from sin, as with any other compulsion, is admitting that it is a force in everyone's life.<br><br>While admitting that we love to sin is necessary, so is understanding the many different sins we love. To this end, Rowland uses th

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Verlag
Bantam Doubleday Dell
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385497032
ISBN 13 
9780385497039
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
205
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