Marcus Hurst

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While traversing this road of life, I have pursued inner peace, a sense of worth, and the truth about life.
Instead of pursuing higher education by usual means, I have relied on God to teach me what I need to know in life. Sometimes God's lessons are painful and scary. (I found He generally teaches lessons by presenting challenges in life and then offering help to work through them.) But it has been worth it; He has never let me down, and He has always given me what it took to get my “homework” done.
I did locate the inner peace I was seeking. And I sense I have found a measure of truthfulness in many areas of life. Over the years, I have also collected a handful of problem-reaped knowledge that I endeavor to share, along with the problem sto
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Having Refreshers Before the Lord

I sense God asking me to describe the “refreshers” I have in His presence each day, which I could define as a blend of basking in God’s presence, with a sense of unspeakable peace and being right where He wants me to be, and having conversations with Him.

What is a refresher?

Finding words to describe these experiences will be challenging, but I’ll do my best—in my back-country, down-to-earth way. I

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"I went into this book expecting another generic collection of positive platitudes about finding yourself, but Marcus Hurst completely blew me away. At 148 pages, The Contentment Dilemma is incredibly concise, but it packs a profound philosophical pun" Read more of this review »
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"This book isn't designed to make you feel comfortable; it's designed to make you free. Hurst relies on a beautiful synthesis of scripture, cultural critique, and philosophical quotes (the Nietzsche and Abdu Murray references in chapter one set an inc" Read more of this review »
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"As someone who has spent years chasing the standard corporate milestones skills, résumé, status only to feel entirely hollow, this book felt like it was written directly for me. Hurst addresses what William Ward calls the "three-fold trap" of discour" Read more of this review »
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“A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”
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“Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth, than to refine themselves.”
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon

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