Jefferson Bethke

New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bethke delivers a call to resist our cultural worship of connectivity and achievement before we lose the essentials that make us distinctly and deeply human. Our culture makes constant demands of us. Do more. Accomplish more. Buy more. Post more. Tweet more. And in following those demands, we have indeed become more--more anxious, more tired, more hurt, more depressed, more frantic. What we are doing isn't working because, Jefferson Bethke argues, we have forgotten the fundamentals that make us human, the things that anchor our lives, providing us with roots and meaning. In this highly anticipated new book, Jefferson Bethke delivers a wake-up call to resist our culture and embrace the slowness of Jesus. To stop doing and start becoming by proactively setting up boundaries in our lives and cultivating disciplines within them. He shows his readers how to find landmarks, anchors, and rhythms that provide depth and meaning and that push back against the demands of contemporary life. And he reveals that what the world teaches us to avoid at all costs--things such as silence, obscurity, solitude, and vulnerability--are the very things that can give us the meaning, depth, order, and the richness we are truly looking for.

Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World

To Hell with the Hustle

The author of a popular YouTube poem looks at the motivation behind his message, beginning with the tale of his own plunge from the works-based existence that led him down a path of destructive behavior to his discovery of the true Jesus.

Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

Jesus > Religion

New York Times best-selling author of Jesus > Religion challenges the accepted thinking of contemporary Christianity with the world-changing message Jesus actually brought. Jesus was most upset at people for seeing but not seeing. For missing it. For succumbing to the danger and idolatry of forcing God into preconceived ideals. What if there were a better way? What if Jesus came not to help people escape the world but rather to restore it? Best-selling author and spoken word artist Jefferson Bethke says that “Christians have the greatest story ever told but we aren't telling it.” So in this new book, Bethke tells that story anew, presenting God's truths from the Old and the New Testaments as the challenging and compelling story that it is—a grand narrative with God at the center. And in doing so, Bethke reminds readers of the life-changing message of Jesus that turned the world upside-down, a world that God is putting back together.

Why Christianity Is So Much More Than Going to Heaven When You Die

It's Not What You Think

Alyssa Bethke

In Love That Lasts, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion Jefferson Bethke and his wife, Alyssa, expose the distorted views of love that permeate our culture and damage our hearts, minds, and souls. Drawing from Jeff's "prodigal son" personal history and from Alyssa's "True Love Waits" experience, the Bethkes point to a third and better way. Blending personal storytelling with biblical teaching, they offer readers an inspiring, realistic vision of love, dating, marriage, and sex. Young people today enter adulthood with expectations of blissful dating followed by a romantic, fulfilling marriage only to discover they've been duped. They learned about love and sexuality from social media, their friends, Disney fairy tales, pornography, or even their own rocky past, and they have no idea what healthy, lifelong love is supposed to be like. The results are often disastrous, with this generation becoming one of the most relationally sick, sexually addicted, and divorce ridden in history. Looking to God's design while drawing lessons from their own successes and failures, the Bethkes explode the fictions and falsehoods of our current moment. One by one, they peel back the lies, such as the belief that every person has only one soul mate, that marriage will complete you, or that pornography and hook-ups are harmless.

How We Discovered God's Better Way for Love, Dating, Marriage, and Sex

Love That Lasts

"Jefferson Bethke delivers a powerful critique of the nuclear family ideal and calls for a sweeping new paradigm that brings not only longed-for stability but also radical blessings to the world"--

From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal

Take Back Your Family

Jon Tyson

Fighting Shadows

Retitled, repackaged, and including new content, Love Is delivers a compelling message that urges Christians to reject the distorted views of love that have damaged our hearts, minds, and souls and to embrace God's biblical definition of what love truly is. So many young people enter adulthood with expectations of blissful dating followed by a romantic marriage but then discover they've been duped. Because they learned about love and sexuality from faulty sources--social media, their friends, Disney fairy tales, pornography, or even their own rocky past--they have no idea what healthy, lifelong love is supposed to be like. The results are often disastrous, with this generation becoming one of the most relationally sick, sexually addicted, and divorce ridden in history. Looking to God's design while drawing lessons from their own successes and failures, the Bethkes explode the fictions and falsehoods that have led to broken relationships. One by one, they peel back lies that include: the belief that every person has only one soul mate, that marriage will complete you, and that pornography and hook-ups are harmless. Drawing from Jeff's "prodigal son" personal history and from Alyssa's "True Love Waits" experience, the Bethkes blend personal storytelling with biblical teaching to offer readers an inspiring, realistic vision of love, dating, marriage, and sex. Including a new chapter filling readers in on the Bethke's married relationship today, this updated edition offers a solidly biblical view of romantic love.

How Messy Stories Can Meet in the Heart of God

Love Is

Bible study for all students is based on Jefferson Bethke's book by the same name.

Bible Study

After hearing the incredible stories of military couples scattered all over the world, we learned a few things about you. First, we learned that military marriage is hard. Like, really hard. And here's the other things we learned: military marriages are resilient. You stare down PCS moves, workups, deployments, trauma, loss, loneliness, and constant change. And you do it together, as a team. We are in awe!In 31 Creative Ways To Love And Encourage Him Alyssa and Jeff Bethke lay out simple ways to bring the beauty, joy, and vibrancy back to a relationship. Each day brings a new adventure that can range from being serious to whimsical to humorous.

31 Creative Ways To Love and Encourage Him (Military Edition): One Month To a More Life Giving Relationship (31 Day Challenge Military Edition) (Volum

In 31 Creative Ways To Love And Encourage Her Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke lay out simple ways to bring the beauty, joy, and vibrancy back to a relationship. Each day brings a new adventure that can range from being serious to whimsical to humorous.

31 Creative Ways To Love and Encourage Her: One Month To a More Life Giving Relationship (31 Day Challenge)

The Love That Lasts workbooks for men and women are the companion guides to the Love That Lasts book. Love That Lasts Men's Workbook and Love That Lasts Women's Workbook are interactive, journal-themed workbooks for individual writing and couple's conversation addressing the 12 essential ways to a Love That Lasts. Great for dating and married couples.

Love That Lasts for Men

Love That Lasts for Men: (12 Essential Ways Workbooks)

In 31 Creative Ways To Love And Encourage Him Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke lay out simple ways to bring the beauty, joy, and vibrancy back to a relationship. Each day brings a new adventure that can range from being serious to whimsical to humorous. This is the dating version

One Month to a More Life Giving Relationship

31 Creative Ways to Love and Encourage Her Dating Edition

Alyssa Joy Bethke

Love that Lasts

One of the secrets to a healthy relationship in order for it to grow is to feed and take care of it. No relationship becomes healthy, vibrant or joyful from complacency. In fact, the minute proactivity leaves the relationship is the minute it can begin to breakdown. In 31 Creative Ways to Love and encourage Him and Her, Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke lay out simple ways to bring the beauty, joy and vibrancy back to a relationship. Each day brings a new adventure that can range from being serious to whimsical to humorous. Take this one month journey with your significant other and come out the other side with a stronger and more healthy relationship than before.

31 Creative Ways to Love and Encourage Him (Dating Edition): One Month To a More Life Giving Relationship (31 Day Challenge)

31 Ways to Love and Encourage Her (Dating Edition): One Month To a More Life Giving Relationship (31 Day Challenge)

In 31 Creative Ways To Love And Encourage Him Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke lay out simple ways to bring the beauty, joy, and vibrancy back to a relationship. Each day brings a new adventure that can range from being serious to whimsical to humorous.

31 Creative Ways To Love and Encourage Him: One Month To a More Life Giving Relationship (31 Day Challenge)

In Alyssa Bethke's newly revised edition of 31 Ways to Show Him What Love Is, readers will discover practical and inspiring tips for bringing more romance, joy, and vibrancy to their marriages. In 31 Ways to Show Him What Love Is,Alyssa Bethke gives wives thirty-one specific tips for strengthening and deepening their relationship. Each day readers find a new suggestion for encouraging and loving their husbands. Topics include serving each other, offering forgiveness, laughing together, praying for one another, affirming each other through words, and even making a favorite snack. From serious to lighthearted, each tip challenges readers to make their marriage a priority and reminds them of the importance of a healthy, vibrant relationship. Designed with new covers and revised content, these books take readers on a one-month journey that will bring them closer to their husbands than ever before.

One Month to a More Lifegiving Relationship

31 Ways to Show Him What Love Is

In Alyssa Bethke's newly revised edition of 31 Ways to Show Him What Love Is, readers will discover practical and inspiring tips for bringing more romance, joy, and vibrancy to their marriages. In 31 Ways to Show Him What Love Is, Alyssa Bethke gives wives thirty-one specific tips for strengthening and deepening their relationship. Each day readers find a new suggestion for encouraging and loving their husbands. Topics include serving each other, offering forgiveness, laughing together, praying for one another, affirming each other through words, and even making a favorite snack. From serious to lighthearted, each tip challenges readers to make their marriage a priority and reminds them of the importance of a healthy, vibrant relationship. Designed with new covers and revised content, these books take readers on a one-month journey that will bring them closer to their husbands than ever before.

In Jefferson Bethke's newly revised edition of 31 Ways to Show Her What Love Is, readers will discover practical and inspiring tips for bringing more romance, joy, and vibrancy to their marriages. In 31 Ways to Show Her What Love Is,Jefferson Bethke gives husbands thirty-one specific tips for strengthening and deepening their marriage relationship. Each day, readers find a new suggestion for encouraging and loving their wives. Topics include serving each other, offering forgiveness, laughing together, praying for one another, affirming each other through words, and even making a favorite snack. From serious to lighthearted, each tip challenges readers to make their marriage a priority and reminds them of the importance of a healthy, vibrant relationship. Now with new covers and revised content, these books take readers on a one-month journey to bring them closer to their wives than ever before.

Jefferson Bethke

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