The Common Rule
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Habits form us more than we form them. The modern world is a machine of invisible habits, forming us into anxious, busy people. We yearn for the freedom of the gospel but remain shackled by our screens and exhausted by our routines.
The answer is a rule of life that aligns our habits to our beliefs. The Common Rule’s four daily and four weekly habits transform frazzled days into lives of love for God and neighbor. Justin Earley provides doable, life-giving practices to find freedom and rest for your soul. This expanded edition now includes study guide questions for individual reflection and group discussion.
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- Provides doable, life-giving practices to find freedom.
- Includes study guide questions for individual reflection.
- Presents a common-sense discipline that any follower of Jesus could use.
Creation is full of holy rhythms of life. There is a way to live that honors and embodies these rhythms. The Common Rule is a beautiful, inviting resource that helps us do just that. It is an important guide to living more deeply rooted in God's life-giving kingdom.
--Alan Fadling, president and founder, Unhurried Living
One of the biggest problems among believers today is their lack of discipline. Consequently, they do not live up to the expectations of Jesus as we can see in the decreasing morality in our country. The Common Rule presents a common-sense discipline that any follower of Jesus could use to become a joyful missionary disciple.
--Michael Timmis, former chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries, member of the board of Alpha International and The New Canaan Society
Habitually choosing what is best over and above what is loud and urgent has never been more difficult than in a culture of perpetual distraction. ‘But where do I begin?’ people ask. In this book, Justin Earley offers the answer. Follow his lead, and you will find much of your life handed back to you.
--John Stonestreet, president of The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview
- Title: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
- Author: Justin Whitmel Earley
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Pages: 216
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christian life; Spiritual life
- ISBNs: 9780830873388, 9780830845606, 0830845607, 0830873384
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830873388
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-25T00:59:02Z
Justin Whitmel Earley (JD, Georgetown University) is the creator of The Common Rule, a program of habits designed to form us in the love of God and neighbor. He is also a mergers and acquisitions lawyer in Richmond, Virginia. He previously spent several years in China as the founder and general editor of The Urbanity Project and as the director of Thought and Culture Shapers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the community through arts. He and his wife, Lauren, have four sons and live in Richmond, Virginia.