Steps A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough
Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough by John Ortberg, published by Tyndale House Publishers on February 4, 2025, is a 320-page exploration of personal and spiritual growth. This book addresses the challenges of transformation when individuals feel unable to change their circumstances through sheer willpower. Ortberg draws on the teachings of Jesus and the framework of Alcoholics Anonymous’ 12 steps to provide a roadmap for those seeking to relinquish control and embrace a more authentic and joyful life.
In Steps, readers will find guidance on recognizing their spiritual attachment styles and core doubts, as well as the importance of practices such as prayer, meditation, and mindfulness. Ortberg emphasizes the role of divine assistance in overcoming personal limitations and encourages living in communion with God and others. This edition offers insights into achieving a new sense of freedom and happiness, regardless of one’s current situation, making it a valuable resource for those interested in Christian living and self-help.
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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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