Self-help book relies on Bible principles for healthy choices
How To Handle Adversity By Charles Stanley
Issue date: 8/27/07 Section: Arts & Culture
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Charles Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta, has a following of 15,000 members and has been elected twice as the Southern Baptist Convention president.
Through such books as Walking Wisely, The Source of My Strength and Enter His Gates, Stanley never fails to captivate his readers by breaking down God's perspective and applying it to daily life.
How to Handle Adversity, as expressed by the author, is the biblical principle of understanding, accepting, and embracing the difficult times in our lives.
Reading this self-help book one finds that the first few pages narrate the life of Jesus and his disciples as they walk through Jerusalem.
The men encounter a man who happens to be blind from birth.
The disciples unaware of Jesus' purpose assumed that either the man or his parents sinned in order for the man to be born handicapped.
After tussling for sometime, trying to figure out who had sinned, the disciples realized after God approached them that the man's blindness was not the result of something he had done.
Instead, his blindness arose because it was part of God's purpose.
Stanley emphasizes that before you bind Satan, it's not always his doing.
He then presents the idea that adversity can come from above. Christ may even be an instigator for some adversity.
However, Christ creates the situations experienced so that the sufferer can grow and He can receive all the honor and praise.
Throughout reading How to handle Adversity, you will find many lessons aim to motivate you to become a better person, friend and Christian.
People that may be experiencing problems and trials can definitely benefit from reading this book.
No matter what may be thrown your way you must persevere and endure because it will make you stronger and better in the end.
Stanley's book will bring understanding to why God allows for adversity to exist and how He uses adversity to remind us of his great love and teaches us discipline.
"When all is well, we quickly drift into a state of self-reliance and smugness," as Stanley wrote in his book.
Praying becomes minimal, so Jesus intervenes through adversity and even the strongest and stubborn individuals fall to their knees.
Bottom line: I would advise anyone interested in learning more about adversity or how to over-come life's trials and tribulations to pick up a copy of this and embrace it and apply it to your everyday life.
Tiffani J. McDaniel•
Charles Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta, has a following of 15,000 members and has been elected twice as the Southern Baptist Convention president.
Through such books as Walking Wisely, The Source of My Strength and Enter His Gates, Stanley never fails to captivate his readers by breaking down God's perspective and applying it to daily life.
How to Handle Adversity, as expressed by the author, is the biblical principle of understanding, accepting, and embracing the difficult times in our lives.
Reading this self-help book one finds that the first few pages narrate the life of Jesus and his disciples as they walk through Jerusalem.
The men encounter a man who happens to be blind from birth.
The disciples unaware of Jesus' purpose assumed that either the man or his parents sinned in order for the man to be born handicapped.
After tussling for sometime, trying to figure out who had sinned, the disciples realized after God approached them that the man's blindness was not the result of something he had done.
Instead, his blindness arose because it was part of God's purpose.
Stanley emphasizes that before you bind Satan, it's not always his doing.
He then presents the idea that adversity can come from above. Christ may even be an instigator for some adversity.
However, Christ creates the situations experienced so that the sufferer can grow and He can receive all the honor and praise.
Throughout reading How to handle Adversity, you will find many lessons aim to motivate you to become a better person, friend and Christian.
People that may be experiencing problems and trials can definitely benefit from reading this book.
No matter what may be thrown your way you must persevere and endure because it will make you stronger and better in the end.
Stanley's book will bring understanding to why God allows for adversity to exist and how He uses adversity to remind us of his great love and teaches us discipline.
"When all is well, we quickly drift into a state of self-reliance and smugness," as Stanley wrote in his book.
Praying becomes minimal, so Jesus intervenes through adversity and even the strongest and stubborn individuals fall to their knees.
Bottom line: I would advise anyone interested in learning more about adversity or how to over-come life's trials and tribulations to pick up a copy of this and embrace it and apply it to your everyday life.
Tiffani J. McDaniel•
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