{"id":10534,"date":"2024-02-19T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/trying-to-trust-god-and-a-word-on-my-next-book\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:22:09","slug":"trying-to-trust-god-and-a-word-on-my-next-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/trying-to-trust-god-and-a-word-on-my-next-book\/","title":{"rendered":"trying to trust God (and a word on my next book)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/homer-at-computer.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8647\" src=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/homer-at-computer.jpeg\" alt=\"homer at computer\" width=\"128\" height=\"81\"\/><\/a>When trusting God is central\u2014even just the simple act of trying to trust\u2014we are walking a holy path. When we learn that it is O.K. to let go of the need be right\u2014that God is not going to pounce at us from behind the corner and give us a whipping but actually welcomes this step of faith\u2014only then will the debilitating stress of \u201cholding on\u201d begin to fade. Then we are giving control over to God, which is a more secure place for faith to rest than the whims and moods of our own thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a brief excerpt from my next book with HarperOne,\u00a0<em>The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More than Our\u00a0\u201cCorrect\u201d Thinking<\/em>. The book is due out April 5, and I will blog about it as more gets finalized and the time gets near.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I am sending out updates on the\u00a0book in my monthly newsletter\u2014and the latest\u00a0one just went out today!<\/p>\n<p>Studies show that people who receive my newsletter\u00a0are 38% happier and\u00a026% smarter, and show an 12% increase in mortal enemies. And, honestly, which of us couldn\u2019t use a few more mortal enemies?<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s all good. But you have to sign up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thebiblefornormalpeople.com\/trying-to-trust-god-and-a-word-on-my-next-book\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=trying-to-trust-god-and-a-word-on-my-next-book\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When trusting God is central\u2014even just the simple act of trying to trust\u2014we are walking a holy path. When we learn that it is O.K. to let go of the need be right\u2014that God is not going to pounce at us from behind the corner and give us a whipping but actually welcomes this step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}