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    Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?
    Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?
    Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?
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    Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?

    By Rev. James W. Moore

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    Have you ever felt a little bored, tired, or stressed about your life
    and even your faith? Haven’t we all? This “world weariness” can happen
    to anyone. Yet Jesus came that we might have exciting, joyful, abundant
    life!

    The question is… how?

    In Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?
    best-selling author James W. Moore explains how to move from fatigue to
    favor. In short, encouraging, and practical chapters, you will learn
    how to Recognize-Remember-Relax:

    Recognize your fatigue limit
    Remember your priorities
    Relax your soul in God


    Today's busy world may bring a tiredness that can
    settle on the human spirit. Struggling through hectic, frenzied,
    stressful lives, we scrape and scramble toward something that leaves
    us...empty...and feeling cheated, let down, and bone weary. God doesn’t
    want it to be that way for us. Find out how, with His help, you can stay excited,
    exhilarated, fulfilled, and truly fired up about life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateMar 15, 2016
    ISBN9781501816635
    Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?
    Author

    Rev. James W. Moore

    James W. Moore (1938–2019) was an acclaimed pastor and ordained elder in The United Methodist Church. He led congregations in Jackson, TN; Shreveport, LA; and Houston, TX. The best-selling author of over 40 books, including Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned, But I Have Several Excellent Excuses, he also served as minister-in-residence at Highland Park United Methodist Church.

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      Are You Fired Up or Burned Out? - Rev. James W. Moore

      Title Page

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      Other books by James W. Moore

      Other books by James W. Moore

      Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned, but I Have Several Excellent Excuses

      Seizing the Moments

      Attitude Is Your Paintbrush

      Some Folks Feel the Rain . . . Others Just Get Wet

      Daddy, Is That Story True, or Were You Just Preaching?

      Christmas Gifts That Won’t Break

      Bethlehem or Bedlam?

      Copyright Page

      ARE YOU FIRED UP OR BURNED OUT?

      Copyright © 2016 by Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be e-mailed to permissions@umpublishing.org or addressed in writing to Permissions, Abingdon Press, 2222 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., PO Box 280988, Nashville TN 37228-0988.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Moore, James W. (James Wendell), 1938-

      Title: Are you fired up or burned out? / James W. Moore.

      Description: First [edition]. | Nashville, Tennessee : Abingdon Press, 2016.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2015036672 | ISBN 9781501816628 (binding: pbk.)

      Subjects: LCSH: Christian life.

      Classification: LCC BV4501.3 .M6549 2016 | DDC 248.4—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036672

      Scripture quotations unless otherwise noted are from the Common English Bible. Copyright © 2011 Common English Bible. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.CommonEnglishBible.com

      Scripture quotations noted NEB are taken from the New English Bible, copyright © Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press 1961, 1970. All rights reserved.

      Contents

      Contents

      Introduction

      1. Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?

      2. Can You Finish Strong?

      3. Christ Is the Answer, but What Are the Questions?

      4. Do You Have Christed Eyes?

      5. Do You Use Time Creatively?

      6. Do You Have a Faith That Will Not Shrink?

      7. When Is Stubbornness a Good Thing?

      8. What Is the Best Tribute We Can Pay Our Lord?

      9. Why Is Gratitude So Important?

      10. What’s the Difference Between Childishness and Childlikeness?

      11. Do You Build Walls or Bridges?

      12. Have You Ever Experienced God’s Surprising, Reconciling Presence?

      13. Are You Talking More and Communicating Less?

      14. Do You Love Anyone Like That?

      15. Did Jesus Really Mean That?

      16. When God Speaks, Can the Church Be Our Hearing Aid?

      17. Do You Know Firsthand the Grace of God that Sets Us Free?

      18. Is Jesus God’s Way of Getting Rid of a Bad Reputation?

      19. Anybody Here Enjoy Religion?

      20. Do You Make Excuses, Excuses, Excuses?

      21. Are You Standing in the Need of Prayer?

      22. What Shall I Do to Inherit Eternal Life?

      23. Do You Really Know the Good News?

      24. What Are the Most Authentic Qualities of Life?

      25. Are You Dreaming the Impossible Dream?

      26. Are You Locked in a Room with Open Doors?

      27. Was the Innkeeper Really a Bad Guy?

      28. Where’s His?

      29. Will You Face Death Unafraid?

      Bibliography

      Introduction

      Introduction

      Isaw him coming. I could tell that he was troubled, burdened, despondent. His body language spoke volumes. His shoulders were dramatically slumped as if he were carrying the weight of the world on his back. He walked as if his shoes were filled with lead, trudging along, one heavy footstep after another.

      He came to the door of my office, paused for a brief moment, and then plodded on in and slumped tiredly into the chair across from my desk. I walked around the desk, sat next to him, and asked, Are you all right?

      No, he said dejectedly. I am worn out, world-weary to the depth of my bones, and stressed to the max!

      Do you want to talk about it? I asked.

      He said, "I’m just so tired of the daily grind. I love my wife, I love my children, my job’s OK, but the excitement is gone. I feel like I’m running up a hill and I can’t get to the top. Everything in my life has just grown so stale and monotonous.

      It wasn’t always like this, he added. I used to celebrate life, but now all I do is cope!

      That man in my office that day spoke out loud about the world-weariness that many people feel these days.

      This sense of boredom, futility, melancholy, and tiredness that settles on the human spirit is a tragic characteristic of life in our hectic, frenzied, stressful, modern world. The sad truth is that while we have done so well and have been so creative in so many dimensions of life, we have all too often missed the main thing. We have moved into outer space, but we have not really discovered and celebrated the mysteries and wonders of our own inner space.

      I am writing this book because I am convinced that life does not have to be boring or monotonous or tiresome. I believe with all my heart that God meant life to be celebrative, zestful, meaningful, and joyful. I believe with all my heart that God wants us to be fired up about life, not burned out.

      The truth is that this world-weariness that plagues us is not so much the problem as it is a symptom of a much deeper problem called emptiness. It’s the emptiness that comes from loving and craving the wrong things . . . temporal, material things that will never satisfy. We scrape and scramble to get them, only to discover that they don’t fill the vacuum. Then we feel cheated, shortchanged, let down, bored, empty, and bone-weary.

      But, it doesn’t have to be that way! God does not want it to be that way for us. Jesus came that we might have exciting, joyful, abundant life!

      In the pages that follow, we will take a look at some ways, with God’s help and God’s grace and Jesus’ life and teaching, that we can stay excited, exhilarated, fulfilled, and fired up about life.

      1. Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?

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      Are You Fired Up or Burned Out?

      Let me ask you an intensely personal question: Are you fired up or burned out? These two phrases, fired up and burned out , are popular expressions that we are hearing more and more these days. On the one hand, we walk into a basketball arena or a football stadium and we hear the fans cheering with a primitive rhythm: Get fired up. . . . Get fired up! Or we hear a college student who has just been invited to the homecoming dance by that someone special say excitedly, I’m fired up!

      To be fired up is

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