{"product_id":"you-are-what-you-love-the-spiritual-power-of-habit-hardcover","title":"You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames K. A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Book Award Winner\u003cbr\u003eMartin Institute and Dallas Willard Center Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou are what you love. But you might not love what you think.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices. He explains that worship is the \"imagination station\" that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. This is why the church and worshiping in a local community of believers should be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the publication of his influential work \u003ci\u003eDesiring the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a more accessible version of that book's content. No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smith's popular presentations on the ideas in \u003ci\u003eDesiring the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003eto offer a fresh, bottom-up rearticulation. The author creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage readers and includes new material on marriage, family, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmith has an exceptional gift for disentangling things. Here again his efforts disentangle our minds and our hearts so our imaginations can be set free to be captured by and reflective of the kingdom of God. In these ways, Smith gives us a profound gift so we can seek and find what we need most.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMark Labberton\u003c\/b\u003e, president, Fuller Theological Seminary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Attention, all 'general readers'--not academics or specialists (though they're welcome too), but people who are tired of shoddy thinking and trendy slogans: this is the kind of book you've been hungering for. It's a bit like one of those 'Great Courses.' An inspired teacher, a compelling subject, and you. What are you waiting for?\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJohn Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e, editor, \u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Informed by the insights of St. Augustine, \u003ci\u003eYou Are What You Love\u003c\/i\u003e explores the substance of Christian discipleship as total life transformation through worship and liturgy. More than any other contemporary writer, Smith has helped me to understand how belief is embodied in us primarily through our habits of desire, and that God himself is the true satisfaction of our hungry hearts. This book should be read by every follower of Jesus.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eSandra McCracken\u003c\/b\u003e, singer and songwriter \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Jamie Smith writes with enormous understanding, authority, and warmth. Masterful!\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eCornelius Plantinga Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, president emeritus, Calvin Theological Seminary; author of \u003ci\u003eReading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou are what you love. But you might not love what you think.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWho and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. We may not realize, however, the ways our hearts are taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. In \u003ci\u003eYou Are What You Love\u003c\/i\u003e, popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith helps us recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A user-friendly introduction to the sweeping Augustinian insight that we are shaped most by what we love most, more so than by what we think or do. If sin and virtue are disordered and rightly ordered love, respectively, and if the only way to change is to change what we worship, then this will lead us to rethink how we conduct Christian work and ministry. Jamie gives some foundational ideas on how this affects our corporate worship, our Christian education and formation, and our vocations in the world. An important, provocative volume!\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eTim Keller\u003c\/b\u003e, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What do you love? is the most important question of our lives. With his characteristic ease, energy, and insightfulness, Smith explores in this compelling book not only what it is that we should love but also how we can learn to love what we should.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMiroslav Volf\u003c\/b\u003e, Yale Divinity School; author of \u003ci\u003eA Public Faith \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFlourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this wise and provocative book, Jamie Smith has the audacity to ask the question: Do we love what we think we love? It is not a comfortable question if we strive to answer it honestly. Smith presses us to do so and then shows us the renewed and abundant life that awaits Christians whose habits and practices--whose liturgies of living--work to open our hearts to our God and our neighbors.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eAlan Jacobs\u003c\/b\u003e, Honors College, Baylor University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDesiring the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e influenced me more than any single book of the past decade. I--and the rest of the church--owe a great debt to Smith's scholarship, now made particularly accessible in \u003ci\u003eYou Are What You Love. \u003c\/i\u003eAs a means for reimagining the task of discipleship, this book should be required reading for every pastor, lay leader, and parent.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJen Pollock Michel\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e's 2015 Book of the Year, \u003ci\u003eTeach Us to Want\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames K. A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD, Villanova University) is professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eComment \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. Smith has authored or edited many books, including\u003ci\u003e Imagining the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWho's Afraid of Relativism?\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e  Book Award winners \u003ci\u003eDesiring the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003e(over 30,000 copies sold)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWho's Afraid of Postmodernism?\u003c\/i\u003e He is also editor of the well-received The Church and Postmodern Culture series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52042549100845,"sku":"9781587433801","price":26.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/you-are-what-you-love-the-spiritual-power-of-habit-hardcover-2161329.webp?v=1780171807","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/you-are-what-you-love-the-spiritual-power-of-habit-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}