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Marva J. Dawn’s Followers (50)
Marva J. Dawn
Born
in The United States
August 20, 1948
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Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
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published
1989
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6 editions
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Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time
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1995
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10 editions
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The Unnecessary Pastor: Rediscovering the Call
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published
1999
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5 editions
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A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World
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published
1999
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7 editions
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Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God
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published
2001
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6 editions
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Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity
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published
1999
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9 editions
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The Sense of the Call: A Sabbath Way of Life for Those Who Serve God, the Church, and the World
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published
2006
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7 editions
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Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society
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published
2003
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4 editions
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In the Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life
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published
2009
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3 editions
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Truly the Community: Romans 12 and How to Be the Church
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published
1992
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7 editions
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“A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.”
― Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
― Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
“Reality is what we notice on the surface – what we feel or see, what superficial perspectives we might gain, for example, from television's evening news. Truth is much larger. It encompasses everything that genuinely is going on. The reality might be that our world looks totally messed up, that war and economic chaos seem to control the globe. But the truth is much deeper – that Jesus Christ is still (since His ascension) Lord of the cosmos, and the Holy Spirit is empowering many people to work for peacemaking and justice building as part of the Trinity's purpose to bring the universe to its ultimate wholeness. The reality might be that you do not feel God, but the truth is that God is always present with you, perpetually forgiving you, and unceasingly caring for you with extravagant grace and abundant mercy. Not only that, but the very process of dealing with our lack of feelings and our resultant doubts about God is one of the ways by which our trust in the Trinity is deepened.”
― Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity
― Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity
“One of my biggest problems in dealing with the breakdown of my body is that I keep looking in the wrong direction. I look to the past and the capabilities I once had, instead of looking to the future and what I will someday become in the presence and by the grace of God. Perhaps that is the strongest temptation for you too. Our culture reinforces that mistake by its refusal to talk about heaven, as if it were an old-fashioned and outdated notion. We also intensify the problem by craving present health (as limited as it can be) more than we desire God.
A friend once said to me. "This is so hard getting old—there are so many things we can‘t do any more. I guess the Lord wants to teach us something." Indeed, our bodies will never be what they previously were, and we find that difficult because we miss our former activities. But God wants to teach us to hunger for Him, our greatest treasure. Instead of rejecting the notion of heaven, we genuinely ache in our deepest self to fill that concept with a larger landscape of the Joy of basking in God‘s presence.”
― Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity
A friend once said to me. "This is so hard getting old—there are so many things we can‘t do any more. I guess the Lord wants to teach us something." Indeed, our bodies will never be what they previously were, and we find that difficult because we miss our former activities. But God wants to teach us to hunger for Him, our greatest treasure. Instead of rejecting the notion of heaven, we genuinely ache in our deepest self to fill that concept with a larger landscape of the Joy of basking in God‘s presence.”
― Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity
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