
The Beauty Chasers
Recapturing the Wonder of the Divine
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Timothy Willard
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Timothy Willard
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Can we afford to chase beauty in a world that emphasizes distraction and naked ambition over a lifestyle of wonder and spiritual restfulness?
The everyday road of life is littered with the pains of growing up, loving and failing to love, of peace and discord. What is God saying through all the muck of life? God speaks to us through beauty. But to hear his words, we must slow down and listen with our hearts.
What would happen if we slowed down and looked at the world and our lives with new eyes? The Beauty Chasers shows us a secret passageway that leads beyond the utility mindset that banished beauty from our hearts. Author Tim Willard gives us a guidebook for discovering how to see the world with fresh eyes and let beauty guide us in life and our relationship with God.
The Beauty Chasers will...
- inspire you to live life as a participant instead of a spectator.
- guide you toward a life of presence rather than distraction.
- give you permission to slow down and drink from the well of spiritual rest.
- refresh your perspective on the "wonder-full" ways of God. help you live like beauty matters.
Are you ready to live life to a different cadence? Do you find yourself longing to recapture the wonder in your spiritual journey? Are you willing to walk the path less traveled? If so, then read on, friend.
©2022 Timothy D. Willard (P)2022 ZondervanListeners also enjoyed...
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The world has a love affair - with itself. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, we think of ourselves as mini celebrities, and we use consumption and technology to convince our friends that this facade is who we are. Veneer illustrates that consumption is more than just acquiring more stuff; it is a potentially dangerous mindset - a mindset turning everything, even people, into products. According to authors Timothy Willard and R. Jason Locy, there is evidence of consumption in all channels of culture - even the church.
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- Krystal Rowley
- 08-11-22
Listened, and then bought the book to highlight!
I was so eager to start this book, and was not disappointed! Listened, and then bought the book to highlight!
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- Ad Lib Music
- 04-18-23
Wonderful and inspiring
Now that I’ve listened to this once, I plan to listen again with my sixteen year old son.
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- Hannah Pester
- 02-10-23
A cool drink of water
Willard invites us to see beauty, to contemplate it, and be present for it. To chase beauty until we understand more and more that in finding beauty, we find God.
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- Angela Bowland
- 03-14-24
A call to sight and action
I’m almost at a loss for words. I enjoyed the book that much. I’m about to listen to it all over again right away and I don’t recall ever doing that. I feel like there’s so much here that I need to go back to get the rest out of it. Not because it’s a difficult “read” but because there’s so much beauty and wisdom in the work. Thank you sir for pouring your heart into this.
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- not a reader
- 01-26-23
Almost
The text of the book is ok. There are better books on the subject. The narration is not a narration. It’s a dramatization and the accents chosen for various “characters” are puzzling and distracting from the content of the book.
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