Introducing Jack & Jill
It really is hard to contain our excitement for this series. We simply can’t wait to introduce you to the Island of Broadbay, where so many beautiful characters will find their true identities in Jesus, where they will see their stories the way the Father sees them!!!
As mentioned in other places, these are case studies using the tools from Going In Circles and Actually Getting Somewhere and Still Going In Circles and Getting Somewhere. Each book will follow Jack and Jill as they walk with fellow pilgrims into their freedom in Christ, followed by a practical treatise on each topic addressed.
In the future, this will be the page where these titles will be displayed. We’re thinking this could be an open-ended task, spanning many years and many, many separate volumes! We are hard at work on the first four of the series now.
Jack & Jill – A Love Story
What does the Love of an infinite Being look and feel like? Do our modern conceptions of love fit the reality??? This first volume of the Jack & Jill series will address this all-important question. If we fail to understand at the very beginning what the reality of love is, we will never comprehend or have a way to receive what Yahweh the Father; Jesus, the Son and Groom; and the Holy Spirit, the empowering indwelling Presence, are to us. We will be lost in vague, mostly untrue concepts and so find ourselves frustrated, afraid, angry, and lost.
The Love Story of Yahweh for His creation has something so much bigger–more intimate-in mind. It is concrete–tangible–able to be held and never lost. Can’t wait for you to see it!!!
Jack’s Very Long, Very Desperate, Really Dark Night
How do you process with a good Father when the lights turn off and all of life with Him feels like a cheat; a betrayal of trust; a desertion of His promises and character?
Jack’s Very Long, Very Desperate, Really Dark Night, is a trek in and through the Dark Night of the Soul. Holding on for dear life; remembering the things that are true; learning what a “turned page life” (Jn. 6:68) looks and feels like. It won’t be pretty. It won’t bother with the veneer of civility. It’s a long, hard wrestle. We’ll acknowledge the fact, and come out something other on the other side.
Jack & Jill - The Honored Pawn
George Otis Jr. writes in God’s Trademarks, “Many people talk about promoting the Kingdom, but what they really hope is that the Holy Spirit will promote them.” It’s a subtle trap that must be seen for what it is; a motive for holding and securing significance.
Jack & Jill - The Honored Pawn is about our aching need for significance and our darkened motives for why we think what we think and do what we do to achieve our heart’s desires.
Jack & Jill - It’s Not Fair
Again, the reality of Yahweh in the created world will not be what many of us expect to find, but if we align ourselves with it, contentment and joy will be our reward!
The promised utopias of today’s culture have come wrapped in the deceptive lure of coveting. Equality by same shatters all foundations for contentment sowing division in the land. Jack & Jill - It’s Not Fair, will point us back to the complimentary mosaic the Body of the Living Creative Christ is in her glorious reality.