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    The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction

    By Adam S. McHugh

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    Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award
    Logos Association Bookstore Award
    Bookwi.se's Favorite Books of the Year
    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year

    "Be quick to listen, slow to speak." —James 1:19

    How would our lives change if we approached every experience with the intention of listening first?

    In this noisy, distracting world, it is difficult to truly hear. People talk past each other, eager to be heard but somehow deaf to what is being said. Listening is an essential skill for healthy relationships, both with God and with other people. But it is more than that: listening is a way of life.

    Adam McHugh places listening at the heart of our spirituality, our relationships and our mission in the world. God himself is the God who hears, and we too can learn to hear what God may be saying through creation, through Scripture, through people. By cultivating a posture of listening, we become more attentive and engaged with those around us. Listening shapes us and equips us to be more attuned to people in pain and more able to minister to those in distress.

    Our lives are qualitatively different—indeed, better—when we become listeners. Heed the call to the listening life, and hear what God is doing in you and the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateNov 9, 2015
    ISBN9780830879694
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    Adam S. McHugh

    Adam S. McHugh (ThM, Princeton Theological Seminary) is an ordained Presbyterian minister and spiritual director, and a regular contributor to Susan Cain's Quiet Revolution website. He has served at two Presbyterian churches, as a hospice chaplain and as campus staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He is the author of The Listening Life, which won the 2017 Christianity Today Book Award for spiritual formation, and Introverts in the Church, and lives on the central coast of California.

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