Why Do I Do What I Don't Want to Do? - Replace Deadly Vices with Life-Giving Virtues

Jon Green, Jonathan "JP" Pokluda

Summary

How to overcome the habits that are stealing joy from your life 
 
Our upside-down culture celebrates vice and undervalues virtue, leading us to feed the wrong habits while we allow life-giving practices to die. It's no wonder we feel empty, exhausted, and directionless. 
 
There's a better, more fulfilling way to live, and it doesn't involve looking inside yourself for the answers--because that's not where you'll find them. With his signature wit and wisdom, Jonathan "JP" Pokluda helps you 
 
● unpack the age-old virtues we're told to pursue in Scripture 
● understand how these God-given goals free us to love and live as we wish we would 
● redefine what's important to you  
● reclaim a life of virtue 
 
Practicing virtues is not just something you do--it's something done in you, slowly but surely transforming you into the person you were meant to be all along.

Available since: 03/14/2023.

Print length: 224 pages.

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