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Tips and Tricks to Help You Live Out Your Faith Life hacksingenious solutions to everyday problemsare everywhere on the internet. If you want to stop your cat from unrolling the toilet paper or learn how to cut a cake with dental floss, you can find a site that will show you how. Such clever strategies might save you a few seconds and give you a good story to tell your friends, but they can't help you with the stuff in life that truly matters, like trying to live as God intended. That isuntil now. Discover life hacks for your spiritual life, field-tested fixes for chronic problems that plague many Christians. What do you do when you are headed out into a problem-filled world? disillusioned by your lack of spiritual growth? forced to be around somebody really annoying? disgusted with yourself because of all the things you ';should' be doing but aren't? tired of all the pretending? Join award-winning author Len Woods as he shares some sound biblical strategies for overcoming these common challengesand learn to give yourself grace along the way.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	06 août 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736978514
Langue	English

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT SPIRITUAL LIFE HACKS
Len hits upon issues in this book that everyone can identify with exhaustion, fear, complacency, doubt, and more. His use of humor and wise, biblical insights will keep readers coming back for more, page after page. This book is a fun read that will help everyone who reads it grow spiritually.
Stephen Arterburn,
Bestselling author, founder of New Life Live and Women of Faith , teaching pastor, and, most importantly, dad and husband
Len Woods is a master at offering practical suggestions, specific insights, and helpful applications. Spiritual Life Hacks challenged me to find realistic ways to refocus my day and to cling to God and His truth. I m incredibly grateful for Len s pastoral heart, and I pray this book will be an encouragement to others.
Christopher D. Hudson,
General editor of the NIV Bible for Men
Len Woods makes my life better. Spiritual Life Hacks is fresh, interesting, and filled with truth. Best of all, it s not just a long list of burdensome instructions but a warm collection of reminders that spiritual growth is a normal, joyful part of a relationship with Christ. This one is easily recommended.
Mike Nappa,
Bestselling and award-winning author
Len Woods has a gift. It s the ability to simplify how we can act (or react!) to the way things stack up. Much like MacGyver constructs creative solutions, Len ties ordinary words together that yield extraordinary solutions to our stressful situations. Are you ready to use the spiritual life hacks he s forged for you to find uncommon solutions for common challenges? I am.
Susan B. Mead,
Award-winning author of Dance with Jesus and Don t Go Through Life Naked
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Spiritual Life Hacks
Copyright 2019 by Len Woods
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-7850-7 (pbk)
ISBN 978-0-7369-7851-4 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Woods, Len, author.
Title: Spiritual life hacks / Len Woods.
Description: Eugene: Harvest House Publishers, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019000516 (print) | LCCN 2019009128 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736978514 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736978507 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Christian life-Miscellanea. | Bible-Miscellanea.
Classification: LCC BV4501.3 (ebook) | LCC BV4501.3 .W659 2019 (print) | DDC 248.4-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019000516
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I WANT TO HELP YOU TO GROW AS BEAUTIFUL AS GOD MEANT YOU TO BE WHEN HE THOUGHT OF YOU FIRST.
THE MARQUIS OF LOSSIE, GEORGE MACDONALD
DEDICATION
To Cindi
You remind me every day that God is good and grace is true.
You make life fun-even the parts that need a lot of hacking.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It takes a good-sized village to create authors and make books. Consequently, I want to thank:
Mrs. Burlew and Mrs. Slattery for teaching me to read.
Mom, for taking me to the library week after week.
Mrs. Charlotte Rogers, for patiently teaching me how to type.
Professor Howard Hendricks, for encouraging me to be creative.
Frederick Buechner, for showing me how piercing and powerful words can be.
Dave Veerman, for giving me so many chances and opening so many doors.
Steve Laube, for introducing me to Todd Hafer.
Todd Hafer, for believing in this idea and guiding this project.
Harvest House, for the opportunity to partner in such a fun endeavor.
Kim Moore and Jean Kavich Bloom, for all the editing expertise and encouragement.
My family and friends, near and far, who encourage me every day to keep tending and tweaking and hacking my soul.
CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Dave Veerman
What the Heck Is a Hack ?
SPIRITUAL LIFE HACKS
1. When You re Wondering Where to Start Hacking
2. When You Feel Disillusioned by Your Lack of Spiritual Growth
3. When You re Heading Out into a Problem-Filled World
4. When You Can t See God Working in Your Life
5. When You re Battling Doubts
6. When You Feel Overwhelmed
7. When Life Is Full of Uncertainty
8. When You re Knackered
9. When It s Taking a Long Time to Bounce Back from a Draining Experience
10. When the Idea of Repenting Leaves You Cold
11. When You Need to Pray but You re All Out of Words
12. When Your Devotional Life Is Stale and Blah
13. When You re Feeling Big Pressure to Rescue Someone
14. When Your Faith Is Overdue for a Checkup
15. When Your Heart Is Full (but Not in the Best of Ways or with the Best of Things)
16. When You re Too Wrapped Up in Your Own Life
17. When You re Not in a Great Place (Emotionally Speaking)
18. When You re Tired of All the Pretending
19. When You re Not Sure What to Say
20. When You Could Stand to Be More Thankful
21. When You re Forced to Be Around Somebody Really Annoying
22. When Your Soul Is All Stirred Up
23. When You Get an Encouraging Note
24. When You re Disgusted with Yourself Because of All the Things You Should Be Doing but Aren t
25. When You re Irritated by All Those Pesky People in Your Way
26. When You re Ready to Quit
27. When You ve Decided You Have Nothing to Offer Anyone
28. When You Find Yourself a Little Too Concerned About Him, Her, or Them
29. When You Don t Feel like Doing What You Need to Do
30. When You re in a Psalm 98 Worship Service with a Psalm 88 Heart
31. When Productivity Starts to Become a Problem
32. When You re Starting Something
33. When Things in Your Life Are Shaky
34. When Everything Seems Doomy and Gloomy
35. When You Keep Forgetting What Matters
36. When You re Wondering, How Long Will I Need to Keep Hacking My Heart?
List of Spiritual Life Hacks
Notes
About the Author
FOREWORD
BY DAVE VEERMAN
I ve known Len Woods for almost 40 years.
A gifted writer, Len pulls you in and keeps you engaged, communicating profound truths in ways that almost anyone can understand. A minister since his college days, he has worked with people of all ages in life s joys, struggles, challenges, and growing pains, helping them mature in the faith. A practical practitioner, he knows how to help readers see themselves in the Bible and understand how to apply its principles.
Spiritual Life Hacks brings it all together: Len s passion for God s truth, his sensitivity to people and their life issues, his practical wisdom, and his writing ability.
These hacks begin with real issues faced by real people-and you may find that some of these situations will make you say, That s me! Then Len gives intensely practical and hopeful suggestions for helping resolve these common problems. His answers are simple but not simplistic. They re clear and concise.
So many of these hacks spoke to me, but I was especially challenged by the last one- When You re Wondering, How Long Will I Need to Keep Hacking My Heart? -and Len s powerful conclusion. situation and the next and then the next. Keep pen and paper alongside as you read-you ll want to keep a list of hacks to take with you through the day. As you do what Len suggests, I m convinced you will experience life change.
ENJOY!
Dave

Dave Veerman is a cocreator of the bestselling Life Application Study Bible and award-winning author of more than 70 books, including Tough Parents for Tough Times, 365 Pocket Morning Prayers , and Unwrapping the Bible .
WHAT THE HECK IS A HACK ?
H ack.
Everything about the word makes us wince. Its primary meaning- to cut or sever with repeated irregular or unskillful blows 1 -sounds like a scene from a horror movie.
Then there was that time somebody figured out your sophisticated password system ( qwerty for everything), hacked into your home Wi-Fi network, and used your credit card to go flat-panel TV shopping in Omsk, Russia. And the time you nearly hacked up a lung during a bout with the flu. And let s not forget that nice handyman you hired to install a new power outlet in the kitchen. Be