Teach Us to Want, Jen Pollock Michel
Teach Us to Want, Jen Pollock Michel
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Teach Us to Want
Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith

Author: Jen Pollock Michel

Narrator: Jen Pollock Michel

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/31/2015

Synopsis

As Christians, we’re squeamish about desire. Isn’t wanting sinful and selfish? Aren’t we supposed to find and follow God’s will rather than insisting upon our own? The story of each person is a story of want—desires unmet, hopes dashed, passions pursued and ambitions fulfilled. Our wants cannot be ignored. But when desire is informed by Scripture and re-formed by our spiritual practices, it can root us more deeply in the fundamental belief that God is good and generous and can invite us into active kingdom participation. Jen Pollock Michel guides us on a journey of understanding who we are when we want, and reintroduces us to a God who gives us the desires of our hearts. That same good God calls us into a new reality in which we seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and we discover our disordered desires burned away while our truest longings are happily fulfilled and purified. The disciples asked Jesus to "Teach us to pray." This book asks, "Teach us to want."

About Jen Pollock Michel

Jen Pollock Michel is the author of Teach Us to Want, Keeping Place, and Surprised by Paradox. A Wheaton College graduate, she holds a master's degree in literature from Northwestern University and has written for Christianity Today, Image Journal, Comment, First Things, and The Gospel Coalition. She also speaks regularly at The Gospel Coalition (Women's Conference and National Conference) and at churches and retreats. Michel lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lance

Wow what a phenomenal book! Jen Pollock Michel is a fabulous writer. This was a semi-biographical, neo-Calvinist take on longing, God sovereignty, and the life of faith. It didn’t hit all I was looking for on the topic of desire, but a wonderful book nevertheless.......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy

It’s rare for me to finish a book in three days—and then immediately re-read it. Jen Pollock Michel’s new book, Teach Us to Want deeply moved me. Michel manages to get inside of desire, from the framework of orthodox Christianity, without being dogmatic or judgmental. This is no easy task. Because s......more

Goodreads review by Adam

I think Christians need to learn how to desire and how to be passionate. That it is possible to be passionate because God created us to be passionate. But this book is not really about passion and desire. It is about holiness and sovereignty. Those are both important topics. But I am tired of only u......more

Goodreads review by Nick

4.5 stars. Desiring the Kingdom by James K.A. Smith has had a profound impact on me. In many ways, Teach Us To Want is Jen cathartically wrestling with the idea of desire as found in scripture and Desiring the Kingdom (and Augustine) and how it plays out in our prayer lives and faith when the rubber......more

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