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A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

by John Ortberg

Narrator John Ortberg

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Length 11 hours 8 minutes

Language English

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Is there really any hope for a spiritual way of living that actually works?

Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we’re all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.

In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change but we can’t do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AAs 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for:

Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own lives

Distinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futile

Discovering how God can do for us what we can’t do for ourselves, and

living authentically, joyfully and in communion with God and other people.

Ortberg shows us how to discover:

Our spiritual attachment styles

Our core doubts

The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulness

God’s sufficiency in our inadequacy

In Steps, find what’s needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship and a new happiness no matter our circumstances.

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John Ortberg is the leader of Become New, a ministry devoted to helping you grow spiritually one day at a time. He has written books on spiritual formation including, The Life You've Always Wanted, Faith and Doubt, Who is This Man?, and Soul Keeping. Born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, John graduated from Wheaton College with a degree in psychology. He holds a master of divinity and doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Fuller Seminary. John is a member of the board of trustees at Fuller Seminary and the board for the Dallas Willard Center for Spiritual Formation.