Bøger af Ed Cyzewski

Most Christians can recite John 3:16: "God so loved the world..." but many doubt that God truly loves them. We all think of caveats for God's love, struggle to pray, or fail to experience God's acceptance. Doubting God's love deprives us of what God freely gives: adoption into God's family. I wrote this book for myself. I run away from God's love. It's something I'm ashamed of and something that I needed to understand. I needed to crack my defenses and blinders. I hope that my fellow runaways will start asking what keeps them from God so they can stop running and find the perfect rest of God.

Soul care and time for prayer are harder to prioritize with smartphone addiction and social media's distractions. Drawing from his research in Reconnect: Spiritual Restoration from Digital Distraction and his work in the Deeper Living Project, Ed Cyzewski shares five simple steps to minimize the influence of smartphones and social media each day so that you'll have more time and attentive for the soul restoring practices that lead to spiritual health.

Independent Publishing for Christian Authors provides a foundational discussion about the place of independent publishing in the Christian market, its relationship to commercial Christian publishing, and the essential practices that will make an independent book more likely to succeed. This is the first step that many new authors need to consider, or it may be the saving grace of commercially published authors who are stuck and don't have any commercial publishing options left. This book empowers new and published authors to better understand their publishing options, what to expect from a commercial publisher, and how they can benefit from independent publishing. Taking authors beyond the one-time approach of self-publishing, independent publishing encourages Christian authors to pursue their ministry or creative calling as authors apart from commercial publishing, while empowering them to make better choices when comparing commercial vs. independent publishing.

How do you balance the calling to a career and the calling to fatherhood? How do you face a life change that you feel completely inadequate and unprepared for? In Ed Cyzewski's case, he wrote about it-a lot. The only thing author Ed Cyzewski feared more than an editor's rejection email was parenthood. After struggling to establish himself as a full time writer in his 20's, he began his 30's with more questions about his career, more anxiety about parenthood, and a baby on the way. First Draft Father documents the rough draft of a new father balancing parenting and working from home through a weekly online journal. Along the way his faith and writing career were revised in ways he never expected.

In just 5 minutes, you will Read (minute 1-2), Understand (minute 3), Apply (minute 4), and Pray (minute 5) God's Word through more than 90 challenging, focused, morning Bible studies.

What enables some to survive as Christians when so many others falter? Without resorting to empty answers, clichés, relativism, or smug certainty, A Christian Survival Guide provides an accessible and safe place to deal with issues that can give Christians sleepless nights. By focusing on spiritual practices, discussing solutions to faith struggles, and offering perspectives from multiple Christian traditions, this survival guide moves readers into a thriving relationship with God, even if that means not necessarily finding all the answers. A Christian Survival Guide doesn't run away from the big, tough questions of life like: Does the Bible have to be "true"?Where is God in an evil world?Did God sanction genocide?Is hell eternal conscious torment?Does money keep us from following Jesus? Candid and wry, Cyzewski deals with the tension of hard questions without resorting to empty answers, clichés, relativism, or the smug certainty that can so often drive seekers and strugglers further away. He writes for those who both care and question deeply, and offers survival tips to help readers move from living on the edge to a place of health and life. This survival guide is not meant to be a "one size fits all" handbook. It is a first step to confronting the big issues and challenges of a life of faith--even the ones that Christians fear most.

What if prayer could be simple rather than strenuous?Anxious, results-driven Christians can never pray enough, serve enough, or study enough. But what if God is calling us not to frenzied activity but to a simple spiritual encounter? What if we must merely receive what God has already given us?In Flee, Be Silent, Pray, writer and contemplative retreat leader Ed Cyzewski guides readers out of the anxiety factory of contemporary Christianity and toward a God whose love astounds those quiet long enough to receive it. With helpful guidance into solitude, contemplative prayer, and practices such as lectio divina and the Examen, Cyzewski guides readers toward the Christ whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.Ready to shed the fear of the false self and the exhaustion of a duty-driven faith? Flee. Be silent. Pray.