Full name: The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ

Author: James Bryan Smith Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Religion Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780830835324 0830835326

"I have never met a person whose goal was to ruin his or her life. We all want to be happy, and we want it all of the time." So begins James Bryan Smith in The Good and Beautiful Life. The problem is, he tells us, we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. These self-centered decisions lead us further into the vices that cause ruin: anger, lust, lying, worry and judging. Eventually we find ourselves living a beautifully packaged life of self-destruction. Following the Sermon on the Mount, this follow-up to The Good and Beautiful God guides us to look behind these character flaws and to replace our false beliefs with Jesus' narratives about life in the kingdom of God. Similar books: The Good and Beautiful Community by James Bryan Smith The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson Jesus Today by Sarah Young Four Blood Moons by John Hagee Jesus Always by Sarah Young Falling Upward by Richard Rohr Jesus The Christ by James E. Talmage Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by W. Phillip Keller Whisper by Mark Batterson Everybody, Always by Bob Goff The Lamb's Supper by Scott Hahn Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn The Holiness of God by R. C. Sproul Wicca by Scott Cunningham The Spiral Dance by Starhawk Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler Praying the Names of Jesus by Ann Spangler