Just in Time: Devotions for Advent
Advent is a time of great anticipation when followers of Christ look forward to celebrating his birth. This book is designed to be used as a beneficial guide during Advent season. It includes devotionals for twenty-eight days. Each day includes a Scripture, a devotional thought, a quote, and a short prayer. Just in Time will help you experience the presence of Christ as you anticipate the celebration of his arrival. In a day when Christ often gets lost in Christmas activities, you will appreciate reading a book that underscores the necessity of experiencing him day by day. Even though Christ sometimes seems absent, even in or perhaps especially in this season, he arrives just in time, just as he did in Bethlehem so many years ago.
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Life Matters
I’ve learned, ever so slowly, little by little, that life is lived in the moment, or it isn’t lived at all; if I’m not here, I’m either in the past–which is no more–or I’m in the future, which is not yet. If I’m still wandering around in the hallways of the past, lost in a maze of regret, or trying to catapult myself from the present into the next time zone, which can’t be entered until it arrives, it’s not simply that I’m not here: I’m actually nowhere.
Like T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock–lingering on the outside looking in, fearful of the present, doubting, wondering, questioning whether he has “the strength to force the moment to its crises?” anxiously awaiting the future, mistakenly believing that, “There will be time, there will be time/To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”–we miss the thrill and excitement, victories and defeats, struggles and accomplishments of the present when we aren’t fully alive in the moment, willing to risk ourselves in it.
Life matters in all is variegated aspects. It must be grasped, breathed, and lived for all it is now: “This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24), the Psalmist proclaimed. And Jesus warned, “Don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries” (Matthew 6:34). I hope these essays will help you as you read them as much as they did me as I wrote them to see how much life matters, how important it is to live each moment to its fullest, and how precious is every breath we take. My desire is that you will enjoy what you read and that in itself will be part of life’s gift for you. And me, too.
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Surviving the Storms of Life: How to Triumph in Tragedy
“Surviving the Storms of Life is a timely book, and it offers timely help to any who are experiencing such storms. When any of us endure such grievous experiences that wound us and sap the life out of us, we join a vast company of fellow sufferers, for, like it or not, suffering occupies a place at the very center of the human story and also the Christian story. What can we do to survive not only such terrifying events as these but to get our shattered lives together again and live anew? When you read Surviving the Storms of Life, you will recognize immediately that David Whitlock has been through some storms and knows what he is talking about.”
– Dr. E. Glenn Hinson
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Start your day right…every day!
Dr. Whitlock’s popular Monday morning Wake Up Call is now available as an audio CD Series
Wake Up Call is a collection of short, motivational messages designed to start your day with a positive, encouraging word from Dr. Whitlock. He has designed these messages to help you become all you are meant to be. Keep your life focused, energized, and better prepared to face the challenges of each day.
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