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Take Root: How the Beatitudes Reveal the Astonishing Nature of God's Garden
Winsome and engaging for the young adult audience, Take Root explores the meaning of all eight Beatitudes and how each one ties into the Bible’s imagery of a tree as being connected to the Creator. This is the perfect book to read with your tween age child or in tandem with your teenager.
Discover what Jesus meant when He spoke profound words like “meek” and “mourn” to all those huddled on a hillside over 2,000 years ago. Now often overlooked and misunderstood, these eight Beatitudes still offer the most astonishing portrait of what it looks like to be a Christian, as described by Jesus Himself. Take Root shows how God is using His people to transform this wilderness – this lost, weary world – back into His Garden where we might flourish in His presence. And it is the Beatitudes that reveal just how He plans to do it...
Did you know there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our galaxy? And that the Bible talks about trees more than any other living thing besides God and man? So it’s not surprising that trees serve as an incredible metaphor for how God is unfolding His great rescue story, working out His plan from the very beginning to live with His children. After all, the gospel is about far more than “getting to heaven” – it also reveals the way to live our lives to the fullest, here and now.
After Jesus was raised from the dead, His friend Mary Magdalene went searching for Him at the tomb but found it empty. Jesus then appeared to her but she did not recognize Him, supposing instead that He was “the gardener.” And indeed He is, not of ordinary seeds and plants, but of His people. God is once again delivering us from the wilderness, but this time He is going to turn the wilderness into a garden….
Discover what Jesus meant when He spoke profound words like “meek” and “mourn” to all those huddled on a hillside over 2,000 years ago. Now often overlooked and misunderstood, these eight Beatitudes still offer the most astonishing portrait of what it looks like to be a Christian, as described by Jesus Himself. Take Root shows how God is using His people to transform this wilderness – this lost, weary world – back into His Garden where we might flourish in His presence. And it is the Beatitudes that reveal just how He plans to do it...
Did you know there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our galaxy? And that the Bible talks about trees more than any other living thing besides God and man? So it’s not surprising that trees serve as an incredible metaphor for how God is unfolding His great rescue story, working out His plan from the very beginning to live with His children. After all, the gospel is about far more than “getting to heaven” – it also reveals the way to live our lives to the fullest, here and now.
After Jesus was raised from the dead, His friend Mary Magdalene went searching for Him at the tomb but found it empty. Jesus then appeared to her but she did not recognize Him, supposing instead that He was “the gardener.” And indeed He is, not of ordinary seeds and plants, but of His people. God is once again delivering us from the wilderness, but this time He is going to turn the wilderness into a garden….
152 pages, Paperback
Published July 5, 2023
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April 16, 2024
Absolutely incredible! Couldn’t recommend more! What a treat to discover such a readable + WISE book! By using trees, Miller captures the beauty of the gospel + the truths in the beatitudes in such a simple yet beautifully profound way!
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