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Suffering: Answers - Make it stand out “Job's Tormentors” by William Blake c1785-90 found in the British Museum London https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/suffering-divine-sovereignty monthly 0.5 2022-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/8c1e4156-b14a-4b3d-8a71-026a9678ab35/art-lasovsky-8XddFc6NkBY-unsplash.jpg Weekly Blog - Suffering: Divine Sovereignty - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/suffering-in-between monthly 0.5 2022-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/0b49db01-df0b-4e98-921b-77400641b0d6/umit-bulut-qbTC7ZwJB64-unsplash.jpg Weekly Blog - Suffering: In-Between - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/suffering-miracles monthly 0.5 2022-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/ddbadabd-ec54-41cd-9dd3-a385842937a0/bruno-van-der-kraan-v2HgNzRDfII-unsplash.jpg Weekly Blog - 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American Goodness - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/adaptive-not-captive monthly 0.5 2022-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/d5eba872-f03b-4305-b753-8f4f63001707/ryoji-iwata-X53e51WfjlE-unsplash.jpg Weekly Blog - Adaptive, not Captive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/evangelicalism monthly 0.5 2022-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/3fc2fa99-de88-438b-a5bd-09bffe5d875a/evan2.jpeg Weekly Blog - Evangelicalism - Make it stand out Evangelist Billy Graham preaches in Trafalgar Square, London, April 12, 1954. (Photo: AP) https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/rootsystem monthly 0.5 2022-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/a7acc57a-3979-458a-b229-3d0b6b8da498/jeremy-bishop-EwKXn5CapA4-unsplash+%281%29.jpg Weekly Blog - Root System - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/the-church-as-buffer monthly 0.5 2022-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/2740a89c-7bab-4998-ae92-16d4c0c01a91/ben-duchac-96DW4Pow3qI-unsplash.jpg Weekly Blog - The Church as Buffer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/the-churchs-hour monthly 0.5 2022-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/c7901fd4-efbf-4bec-9800-14fc4adee3dd/Screen+Shot+2022-12-01+at+10.08.56+AM.png Weekly Blog - The Church’s Hour - Make it stand out Salvation Army headquarters, London (photo mine) https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/on-the-incarnation monthly 0.5 2022-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/80d49c03-6905-45e2-9f4f-b5ed009fb17e/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-southern-ring-planetary-nebula.jpeg Weekly Blog - On the Incarnation - Make it stand out NASA's James Webb space telescope captures stunning image of Southern Ring Nebula https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/self-sabotage monthly 0.5 2022-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/bd6d3910-2781-48d6-99a9-5d0d1b9f471d/toby-osborn-uURfDZ-ZYbk-unsplash.jpg Weekly Blog - Self-Sabotage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jerrysittser.com/blog/america-as-a-christian-nation monthly 0.5 2023-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/5b606db1-4334-4bc0-841a-3fab19396654/nasa-1lfI7wkGWZ4-unsplash+%281%29.jpg Weekly Blog - America as a Christian Nation - Make it stand out Photo by NASA https://www.jerrysittser.com/books daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602715590713-9PY8GY34EJ7RHA1MWQDU/resilientfaith.jpg Books - Resilient Faith How the Early Christian “Third Way” Changed the World In our Western, post-Christendom society, much of Christianity’s cultural power, privilege, and influence has eroded. But all is not lost, says bestselling author Gerald Sittser. Although the church is concerned and sobered by this cultural shift, it is also curious and teachable. Sittser shows how the early church offers wisdom for responding creatively to the West’s increasing secularization. The early Christian movement was surprisingly influential and successful in the Roman world, and so different from its two main rivals--traditional religion and Judaism--that Rome identified it as a “third way.” Early Christians immersed themselves in the empire without significant accommodation to or isolation from the culture. They confessed Jesus as Lord and formed disciples accordingly, which helped the church grow in numbers and influence. Sittser explores how Christians today can learn from this third way and respond faithfully, creatively, and winsomely to a world that sees Christianity as largely obsolete. Each chapter introduces historical figures, ancient texts, practices, and institutions to explain and explore the third way of the Jesus movement, which, surprising everyone, changed the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602716080290-Z2KB4VCQM2I1W0M8XACI/a-grace-disguised.jpg Books - A Grace Disguised How the Soul Grows Through Loss With vulnerability and honesty, Jerry Sittser walks through his own grief and loss to show that new life is possible - one marked by spiritual depth, joy, compassion, and a deeper appreciation of simple blessings. Loss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his family: his mother, his wife, and his young daughter. While most of us will not experience such a catastrophic loss in our lifetime, all of us will taste it. And we can, if we choose, know the grace that transforms it. A Grace Disguised plumbs the depths of our sorrows, whether due to illness, divorce, or the loss of someone we love. The circumstances are not important; what we do with those circumstances is. In coming to the end of ourselves, we can come to the beginning of a new life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602716691633-5Z90IZXX439MDZHWKJRB/gracerevealed.jpg Books - A Grace Revealed How God Redeems the Story of your Life Twenty years ago, Jerry Sittser lost his daughter, wife, and mother in a car accident. He chronicled that tragic experience in A Grace Disguised, a book that has become a classic on the topic of grief and loss. Now he asks: How do we live meaningfully, even fruitfully, in this world and at the same time long for heaven? How do we respond to the paradox of being a new creature in Christ even though we don’t always feel or act like one? How can we trust God is involved in our story when our circumstances seem to say he isn’t? While A Grace Disguised explored how the soul grows through loss, A Grace Revealed brings the story of Sittser’s family full circle, revealing God’s redeeming work in the midst of circumstances that could easily have destroyed them. As Sittser reminds us, our lives tell a good story after all. A Grace Revealed will helps us understand and trust that God is writing a beautiful story in our own lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602716760555-DR50WGMEWJY1LGVF5HB4/water.jpg Books - Water From a Deep Well Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were burned alive. Is my faithfulness as strong? In the fifth century, Melania the Younger and her husband, Pinian, distributed their enormous wealth to the poor and intentionally practiced the discipline of renunciation. Could living more simply deepen my trust in God? In the sixteen hundreds, Philipp Jakob Spener’s love for the Word of God and his desire to help people apply the Bible to their life moved him to start “Colleges of Piety,” or small groups. In what ways could commitment to community make me more like Christ? The history of the church has shaped what our faith and practice are like today. It’s tempting to think that the way we do things now is best, but history also has much to teach us about what we’ve forgotten. In Water from a Deep Well, Gerald Sittser opens to us the rich history of spirituality, letting us gaze at the practices and stories of believers from the past who had the same thirst for God that we do today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602716853770-LF2Q7YVJI2EH2FQLS4PE/willofgod.jpg Books - The Will of God as a Way of Life How to Make Every Decision with Peace and Confidence The Will of God as a Way of Life helps readers surrender their distress about the future and regrets about the past, so they can peacefully and joyfully live in the present moment, finding renewed confidence and hope in a God who is good and who has a dynamic, multi-faceted purpose for our lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602716962174-Z8J68GXUSS7PB3D8CUWG/0310257107%402x.jpg Books - When God Doesn’t Answer Your Prayer Insights to Keep You Praying with Greater Faith and Deeper Hope Many of us have experienced amazing answers to prayer. But what about when our deepest prayers go unanswered? When disaster strikes, when a loved one dies—what then? When God Doesn’t Answer Your Prayer explores the mysteries and paradoxes of unanswered prayer. Forged in the fires of his own crushing experience, Jerry Sittser’s hard-won spiritual insights affirm the greatness of God’s love and concern for us even when we do not understand why our prayers seem to go unheard and unheeded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602717029132-2JW6K2GCUM65E9UYMS0H/71kUAAEdeBL.jpg Books - The Adventure Putting Energy into Your Walk with God "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." --G.K. Chesterton As even a brief exposure to the New Testament will show, the Christian life is a life of adventure. Every aspect is full of energy and light. Yet too often we stop at one point of interest--evangelism, spiritual disciplines, social justice--and go no further. Interweaving stories from a summer vacation, Jerry Sittser shows how our lives can include all God has in mind for us. In a book that is fun and challenging, Sittser restores wholeness to the adventure of Christian living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602717161032-F8WZ3L22V0UKAGQ115XB/loveoneanother.jpg Books - Love One Another Becoming the Church Jesus Longs For Love one another. It’s one of the greatest, simplest and most difficult commands Jesus gave. And when it comes to the church, sometimes it seems impossible. How can we achieve unity within the diversity of the body of Christ? Gerald Sittser examines the “one another” statements throughout the New Testament to distill much-needed biblical wisdom for loving each other even in the midst of controversies and stalemates. Speaking from his own pastoral experience with the best and worst of church life, Sittser helps us understand more fully what the love Jesus commanded actually requires and shows us how to live it out-through struggle, servanthood, compromise and sacrifice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602717307390-WEG1YJ1EZUJLMUFPSI7P/Screen+Shot+2020-10-14+at+4.14.46+PM.png Books - A Cautious Patriotism The American Churches and the Second World War World War II was a turning point in twentieth-century American history, and its effects on American society have been studied from virtually every conceivable historical angle. Until now, though, the role of religion--an important aspect of life on the home front--has essentially been overlooked. In A Cautious Patriotism, Gerald Sittser addresses this omission. He examines the issues raised by World War II in light of the reactions they provoked among Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Unitarians, and members of other Christian denominations. In the process, he enriches our understanding of the relationships between church and society, religion and democracy. In deliberate contrast to the zealous, even jingoistic support they displayed during World War I, American churches met the events of the Second World War with ambivalence. Though devoted to the nation, Sittser argues, they were cautious in their patriotic commitments and careful to maintain loyalty to ideals of peace, justice, and humanitarianism. 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His course, Monasticism: Old and New, meets over January Term in the wintry beauty of Tall Timber, a Christian camp located in a remote area of the Cascade mountain range. Students live together for three weeks, follow a modified Benedictine Rule, and explore various spiritual traditions that have emerged throughout the history of Christian monasticism. He founded the Certification for Ministry program, the Masters of Arts in Theology program, and the Academy of Christian discipleship. Currently he is serving half-time as professor of theology and half-time as senior fellow and resident researcher in the Office of Church Engagement. Students have voted him “Most Influential Professor” ten times, and he has won numerous writing awards. He has written nine books, among them A Grace Disguised, The Will of God as a Way of Life, and Water from a Deep Well. Brazos Press just published his latest book, Resilient Faith: How the Early Christian “Third Way” Changed the World, which explores how the early Christian movement developed such a clear and unique identity in the ancient world and, against all odds, grew into a formidable force long before Christianity became a legally recognized religion. He enjoys music, literature, gardening, hiking, woodworking, and he attends the Oregon Shakespeare Festival every year. Married to Patricia since 2010, he has three married children, two married step-children, and eight grandchildren. (Photo seen here and on front page given by permission from Whitworth University.) https://www.jerrysittser.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eceb2baf328710ed4c81fab/1602714548056-3OT9B7D3O8074954CROG/112381145_160072435646260_5604337113202580918_o.jpg Contact