ECPA BESTSELLER • An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience—from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award “A stunning book with power to reshape our world . . . if we let it.”—Glenn Packiam, pastor and author of Blessed Broken Given We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that’s not the world we live in. We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture. How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls. Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily. In Good and Beautiful and Kind, he reveals how… • These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma. • We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence. • The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future—when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus. Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you…and around you!

Kindness is the single most powerful thing that we can teach our children. It feels good to be kind at school, where your child will learn how easy it can be to spread kindness! From taking turns on the swing to including everyone in the game - this storybook shows that no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. A lightbulb lesson of kindness is found on each page! Included in the book is a Weekly Kindness Challenge to help encourage your child to: Say Sorry, Be Polite, Take Turns, Be a Helping Hand, Include Others, and Show Respect. If you value raising kind kids that make the world a better place, then this book is for you! It Feels Good To Be Kind At School Series is intentionally written for children aged one through five.

Kindness is the single most powerful thing that we can teach our children. It feels good to be kind at school, where your child will learn how easy it can be to spread kindness! From taking turns on the swing to including everyone in the game - this storybook shows that no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. A lightbulb lesson of kindness is found on each page! Included in the book is a Weekly Kindness Challenge to help encourage your child to: Say Sorry, Be Polite, Take Turns, Be a Helping Hand, Include Others, and Show Respect. If you value raising kind kids that make the world a better place, then this book is for you! It Feels Good To Be Kind At School Series is intentionally written for children aged one through five.

Kindness is the single most powerful thing that we can teach our children. It feels good to be kind at school, where your child will learn how easy it can be to spread kindness! From taking turns on the swing to including everyone in the game - this storybook shows that no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. A lightbulb lesson of kindness is found on each page! Included in the book is a Weekly Kindness Challenge to help encourage your child to: Say Sorry, Be Polite, Take Turns, Be a Helping Hand, Include Others, and Show Respect. If you value raising kind kids that make the world a better place, then this book is for you! It Feels Good To Be Kind At School Series is intentionally written for children aged one through five.

What if we expanded our definition of missions? What if it were less about handouts and more about truly loving our neighbors? What if it were more about helping people thrive on earth and not just getting to heaven? What if we didn't have to choose between the physical and spiritual when meeting people's needs? What if it could really be about both? Living a life of faith—one that embraces the sacred value and messy humanity of others—is the next revolutionary chapter of "missions" as we know it. In Both, Noel presents a compelling vision for what modern missions can be: a robust and holistic expression of embodied faith "on earth as it is in heaven."

Excerpt from The Beauty of Kindness The best men, doing their best, Know peradventure least of what they do. We can think, therefore, of the righteous as in their lowliness and humility not being conscious of the splendor and worthiness of the service they had rendered. They even thought there must be some mistake in what the King said to them, for they were not aware that they had ever done anything so noble and beautiful as that, - they could not remember ever having been kind to the King. But there was no mistake. The King has eyes to see in lowly deeds of kindness a beauty which no other eyes can see. He sees the heart, the motive, the spirit that animates the deeds, and therefore he beholds in the most commonplace acts a divine splendor. There are self-denials and sacrifices that love makes for the sake of others which shine with the glory of heaven as the Master sees them, and yet have no splendor in them to other eyes, they are so common. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.