In Love Wins, bestselling author, international teacher, and speaker Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis, Drops Like Stars) addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith--hell and the afterlife--arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever?
Rob Bell is an electrifying, unconventional pastor whom Time magazine calls a singular rock star in the church world, with millions viewing his NOOMA videos.
With searing insight, Bell puts hell on trial with a hopeful message--eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts right now. And ultimately, Love Wins.
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Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined--and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.
In Love Wins, Rob Bell confronted the troubling questions that many people of faith were afraid to ask about heaven, hell, fate, and faith. Using the same inspired, inquisitive approach, he now turns to our most sacred book, the Bible. What Is the Bible? provides insights and answers that make clear why the Bible is so revered and what makes it truly inspiring and essential to our lives.
Rob takes us deep into actual passages to reveal the humanity behind the Scriptures. You cannot get to the holy without going through the human, Rob tells us. When considering a passage, we shouldn't ask Why did God say . . .? To get to the heart of the Bible's meaning, we should be asking: What's the story that's unfolding here and why did people find it important to tell it? What was it that moved them to record these words? What was happening in the world at that time? What does this passage/story/poem/verse/book tell us about how people understood who they were and who God was at that time? In asking these questions, Rob goes beyond the one-dimensional question of is it true? to reveal the Bible's authentic transformative power.
Rob addresses the concerns of all those who see the Bible as God's Word but are troubled by the ethical dilemmas, errors, and inconsistencies in Scripture. With What Is the Bible?, he recaptures the Good Book's magic and reaffirms its power and inspiration to shape and inspire our lives today.
Heen Gru-Bares has been SERIES 5 for most of his adult life, traveling from planet to planet collecting data and filing reports for the CHAIRS who run the universe.
And then he lands on the planet Firdus for his next assignment and he meets
Borns and Lan Zing and Ziga Mey and Dill Tudd and something unsettling begins to stir within him, something unnerving and profoundly disruptive. Out of all the planets he's been to over the decades he's been doing this job, what is it about this one particular planet Firdus that so subversively affects him like it does?
And then Noon Yeah shows up and he learns that she's a SIGN 7,
sent to Firdus to do a GRAINING because of his failure to execute
the task at hand-it's more than he can bear as what he thought
was his life begins to unravel around him...
Will Heen make it through this devastating turbulence?
What will happen to Dill Tudd?
And is all of this a set up, one of the symptoms of a larger malaise that will
continue to spread through the entire universe unless someone does
something to stop it?
It's a galactic saga of struggle and survival.
It's an interplanetary tale of love, loss, and bread.
It's BOOK ONE of the WHERE'D YOU PARK YOUR SPACESHIP? Series.
Welcome to Firdus.
And then Noon Yeah shows up.
It's late in Book 1 of the WHERE'D YOU PARK YOUR SPACESHIP? series
when she appears late at night in Heen Gru-Bares's bedroom,
deeply unnerving him with her claim to be a SIGN 7,
sent to the planet Firdus to sort out a situation involving him.
Who is this enigmatic and electric woman who appears to be a step ahead at every turn?
And where does she come from and how did she become Noon Yeah?
And then how did she end up in that bedroom on Firdus?
It's all here in Book 2, in her words.
Because there's only one Noon Yeah.
An exciting vision of the future --Michael Eric Dyson
Rob Bell's Everything Is Spiritual is an unexpected and compelling invitation to see your life in a whole new way. We have the great moments of our lives, the highs, those times when we soar, when it all makes sense, when it feels like it all has purpose and meaning. And then there are all those other moments--the lows and aches and failures and struggles and experiences that leave us wondering what the point of it all is. Are our lives ultimately bits and pieces and fragments--you try to find a little peace and hope and then it's over? Or is there more going on here? In our increasingly polarized and disoriented world, Everything Is Spiritual gives us a radical new take on how it all fits together, how it works, how it's all connected. Part memoir, part extended riff on the quantum nature of reality, part history of the universe, Rob Bell takes us back through the twists and turns and struggles of his story in order to help us see the larger story so that we can reconnect with our story.We are designed to get from point A to point B as fast as possible.
However, as a result, we can't slow down and there is a sense of urgency towards everything. We are bombarded by the urgent, tugged by the future, distracted by the unimportant, and discouraged by the past.
Time is our most precious resource.
I Can't Wait To Be Patient is a practical guide to overcome our challenges, stress, and expectations, through the power of time and the path of patience.
This book outlines:
- The four laws of patience and the four killers to urgency.
- Why mortality rates actually decrease when the top surgeons are away.
- How we mistake the urgent for the important and why it is a recipe for disaster.
- Why icing the kicker in football does not work.
- Uncover if you have the patient personality. You just might.
The process requires perspective and the product requires patience.
Forever grateful for the brilliant mind, boundless heart and fierce faith of Rob Bell. His work convinced me that it was possible--maybe necessary and thrilling--to be a person of both faith and intellect. . . . Please read everything Rob's ever written and then go see him live. -- Glennon Doyle
The popular pastor and New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God shows us how to pursue and realize our dreams, live in the moment, and joyfully do the things that make us come alive.
Each of us was created for something great--we just need to figure out what it is and find the courage to do it. Whether it's writing the next great American novel, starting a business, or joining a band, Rob Bell wants to help us make those dreams become reality. Our path is ours and ours alone to pursue, he reminds us, and in doing so, we derive great joy because we are living our passions.
How to Be Here lays out concrete steps we can use to define and follow our dreams, interweaving engaging stories, lessons from biblical figures, insights gleaned from Rob's personal experience, and practical advice. Rob gives you the support and insight you need to silence your critics, move from idea to action, take the first step, find joy in the work, persevere through hard times, and surrender to the outcome.
Like Stephen Pressfield's classic The War of Art, How to Be Here will inspire readers to seek the lives they were created to lead.
New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, whom The New Yorker describes as one of the most influential Christian leaders in the country, does for the concept of God what he did for heaven and hell in his book Love Wins: He shows how traditional ideas have grown stale and dysfunctional and how to return vitality and vibrancy to lives of faith today.
Pastor Rob Bell explains why both culture and the church resist talking about God, and shows how we can reconnect with the God who is pulling us forward into a better future. Bell uses his characteristic evocative storytelling to challenge everything you think you know about God. What We Talk About When We Talk About God tackles the misconceptions about God and reveals how God is with us, for us, ahead of us, and how understanding this could change the entire course of our lives.
Bell and Golden trace redemption from Genesis to Revelation... delivering] a tough message the American church needs to hear.
--Christianity Today
Equal parts prophetic warning and call to action, Jesus Wants to Save Christians exhorts Jesus's followers to sacrifice their comforts and hear the 'cry of the oppressed.'
--Grand Rapids Press
In Jesus Wants to Save Christians, Rob Bell, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins joins with Don Golden, Christian activist and vice president of World Relief, to call upon the church to break from its cultural captivity and challenge the assumptions of the American Empire. Bell, whom the New York Times calls one of the country's most influential evangelical pastors and whom Time Magazine named one of the most influential people in 2011, is a pioneer in the movement seeking new Christian expression, and anyone who has ever questioned their faith or is those looking for answers they cannot find in their own church's standard teachings will discover a new creed in Bell and Golden's provocative and spiritually enlightening work.
Would you stop to help someone else?
This is a question you will keep pondering after reading this book. There are a number of factors that determine our actions and inactions in life.
A Better Us Makes a Better YOU and a Better You Makes a Better US.
You have no idea the results of your actions, but if you take no action, there will be no results. Imagine that you will have the opportunity to improve two lives by one simple action. Your own attitude and outlook on life can instantly change because the miracle is that you cannot help someone else without helping yourself as well.
Having understood the underlying secret that NO ONE gets there ALONE, Dr. Rob Bell, a specialist in mental toughness, presents to you a book fully packed with life transforming experiences and information that is expected to reveal the benefits we enjoy from creating a better Us and a better You.
You will apply how-to:
In Love Wins, bestselling author, international teacher, and speaker Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis, Drops Like Stars) addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith--hell and the afterlife--arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever?
Rob Bell is an electrifying, unconventional pastor whom Time magazine calls a singular rock star in the church world, with millions viewing his NOOMA videos.
With searing insight, Bell puts hell on trial with a hopeful message--eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts right now. And ultimately, Love Wins.
As he revolutionized traditional teaching on hell in the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Love Wins, Rob Bell now transforms how we understand and practice marriage in The Zimzum of Love, co-written with his wife, Kristen.
Despite the divorce statistics, people are still committing to each other, instinctively believing and hoping that theirs is a sacred union that will last forever. Yet when these couples encounter problems, they often lack the resources that keep them connected to this greater mystery surrounding marriage.
Rob and Kristen Bell introduce a startling new way of looking at marriage, The Zimzum of Love. Zimzum is a Hebrew term where God, in order to have a relationship with the world, contracts, creating space for the creation to exist. In marriage, zimzum is the dynamic energy field between two partners, in which each person contracts to allow the other to flourish. Mastering this field, this give and take of energy, is the secret to what makes marriage flourish.
Rob and Kristen Bell are brutally honest about their own struggles, their ups and downs, as together they pass along what matters most for couples. In this wise book, they explore the secret of what makes a happy union--probing the mystery at the heart of the extraordinary emotional connection that binds two people. With his down-to-earth charm, a dose of whimsy, and memorable stories, Rob, writing with his wife Kristen, changes how we consider marriage, providing insight that can help all of us create satisfying and sacred unions of our own.
We all have puked.
No one can avoid it.
Everyone that has reached a level of success and significance has messed up and failed. There will be turmoil and extreme adversity. Despite our mistakes, pain, and even being told that we are not good enough we can still rally
It's not about the setback, it's about the comeback
Whether you're an entrepreneur, coach, executive, or full-time mom or dad, you'll face setbacks.
In this book you'll learn and apply:
- Why just one mistake derails the best plans, but you'll rally if you can overcome this error.
- Being told or shown that you're not good enough is actually the key to success.
- Why more people die coming down Mount Everest than climbing up.
- That the process is more important than the product.
- The greatest mental skill that you'll need to comeback.
- The most powerful lightning strikes are from out of the blue.
Life is a competition, except we often only look at competition vs. some other person, team, or company. The real competition is against ourselves.
When we operate in life or business as a competition against others, then we develop a scarcity mindset, one filled with fear, anger, or resentment. The question we have to ask ourselves after reading this book is would you stop to help someone else?
The solution is that A Better Us Makes a Better YOU and a Better You Makes a Better US.
You have no idea the results of your actions, but if you take no action, there will be no results. Imagine that you will have the opportunity to improve two lives by one simple action. Your own attitude and outlook on life can instantly change because the miracle is that you cannot help someone else without helping yourself as well.
Having understood the underlying secret that NO ONE gets there ALONE, Dr. Rob Bell, a specialist in mental toughness, presents to you a book fully packed with life transforming experiences and information that is expected to reveal the benefits we enjoy from creating a better Us and a better You. You will apply how-to: