Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age

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Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age

Erik Raymond

Publisher: Crossway, 2017, 176 pgs
ISBN: 978-1-4335-5366-0
ASIN: B01M6599PZ

Summary

The biblical practice of contentment can seem like a lost art in our discontented age characterized by impatience, overspending, grumbling, and unhappiness. But even the apostle Paul said that he learned to be content in any and every circumstance. Erik Raymond helps us understand what biblical contentment is—the inward gracious spirit that joyfully rests in God’s providence—and then how we


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