If you were able to talk to St. Francis of Assisi, what would you ask him? “Perhaps,” says James Howell,” the first question I’d want to ask Francis would be something like this: How did you do it? Were you real? How much of your story really happened? And I’m asking because I am wondering how I might do it: could I somehow grab a share of the life you had? The marvel in Francis’s story is that all he did seems entirely doable – but then, at the same time, ridiculously impossible. As I survey the bare facts of his life, it all seems so manageably simple, and yet unquestionably what happened was nothing short of miraculous.”
In this spiritually apt look at the life, message, and meaning of St. Francis, Howell invites all of us to pose our most difficult spiritual questions to the saint–and to listen for the questions he asks of us in response.Book Description
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James C. Howell is the senior pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC, and adjunct professor of preaching at Duke Divinity School. He is co-author of Preaching the Psalms (Abingdon, 2001) and author of The Beautiful Work of Learning to Pray (Abingdon, June 2003). He is also author of Servants, Misfits, and Martyrs and Yours are the Hands of Christ (Upper Room Books)
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CAPTIVATED ME ; HIS RECOUNTING OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI'S LIFE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS WILL NOT DISAPPOINT YOU ! NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION YOU ARE THIS AMAZING MAN OF PEACE , HUMILITY , DEVOUT WORSHIP , VISION , AND HONESTY WAS INTEGRAL IN THE REBIRTH OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BY GETTING BACK TO THE BASICS WITH HIS "COMMON TOUCH". THE STORIES RECOUNTED HERE ARE QUITE FACINATING ; FRANCIS(BORN INTO WEALTH) WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A SPIRITUAL LEADER AFTER CHRIST SPOKE TO HIM IN A SMALL CHURCH IN SAN DAMIANA , BECKONING HIM TO REPAIR THE CHURCH . SO HE DID WITH MORTAR & STONES ; BUT CHRIST MEANT THE ENTIRE CHURCH ! FRANCIS BECAME A LEADER OF THOSE WHO WERE HUNGRY FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN ASSISI BEGAN TO EMULATE HIS GENEROUS , SIMPLE , APPROACH TO LIFE AND RELIGION , GIVING THEIR GOODS TO THE POOR & LIVING THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST THROUGH SELFLESS DEVOTION TO OTHERS & RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF GOD IN THEIR DAILY LIVES. OTHER STORIES ABOUT HIM TAMING A WOLF THAT WAS RAVAGING A TOWN INTO THE TOWN'S BELOVED PET , AND HIS STOPPING OF A MAJOR BATTLE , PLUS THE WAY HE PREACHED TO THE BIRDS AND FLOWERS TELL THE TRUE STORY OF A MAN INSPIRED AND SO AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART THAT HE BECAME A SAINT SOON AFTER HIS EARTHLY LIFE WAS OVER . A BRILLIANT BOOK & FACINATING READ !!! Hardie McGehee, singer/songwriter.
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