Introducing “Hope For A Season” With Pete Bowell – Tommy Thompson

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Hope is the anchor that retains us regular by way of life’s storms. On this heartwarming episode, Pete Bowell joins Tommy Thompson to have fun the launch of his new ebook, Hope for a Season. With Pete’s typical humor and quirkiness, they dive into the relevance of his message immediately, exploring how hope, religion, and group can information us by way of difficult occasions. Pete additionally reads just a few highly effective excerpts from his ebook, providing private reflections and biblical insights that may uplift and encourage. Tune in for an attractive dialog that may depart you feeling hopeful and inspired, regardless of the season of life you’re in.

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Introducing “Hope For A Season” With Pete Bowell

A Deeper Perspective On Hope, Honesty, And Braveness

That is actually a particular episode of the present, one which I’ve been enthusiastic about for a very long time. My good long-time pal, Pete Bowell, has launched formally that we’re recording, which is October sixteenth, 2024, his new ebook, Hope for a Season. I’ve been so trying ahead to celebrating this. That is so extremely thrilling to me. Pete and I’ve been speaking for some time about having an episode collectively to speak about his ebook and have fun collectively. Past that, the content material or the message of Hope for a Season is so related now as a lot as any time I can consider for thus many causes that we’ll get into.

I’m thrilled to have the ability to be part of so many individuals at Hope Church and past who’re cheering you on on this ebook launch and on this celebration of what you’ve meant to so many individuals in Richmond and past. I’m thrilled about this episode. It’s at all times a enjoyable episode when Pete and I get collectively and we speak.

I do know it’s going to be a terrific episode, nevertheless it’s additionally going to have some actually significant conversations for us to have. We’re going to do that just a little otherwise than some. Often, when I’ve these sorts of conversations with somebody, we take a very long time originally to listen to the story. Pete and I’ve been on this present collectively earlier than. I’m going to allow you to return to the earlier episode to know just a little little bit of his story.

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Welcome, Pete. I’m thrilled that the time has lastly come.

Thanks. I really feel prefer it’s one of the vital encouraging introductions I’ve had shortly. You say, “I have fun.” Generally, it’s, as a lot as I’m an extrovert, onerous for me to have fun. It appears like I’m celebrating my very own character or one thing, however that’s not true. I do wish to enter into the celebration of this as a result of I really feel prefer it’s God’s phrase utilized to our on a regular basis lives. I hope that God does use it. By the grace of God, it acquired written. It’s by His main. Thanks for being such an encouragement to me.

It’s true that we want different folks to enter into the celebration. We frequently don’t fairly have it in us for all these varied inside causes to have fun issues in our personal lives that we should always have fun. All that we want is the assistance from different folks to have fun. I’m celebrating and have been despite the fact that I used to be out of city for part of the precise ebook launch occasion. I’ve been so enthusiastic about this.

I’m grateful. I don’t wish to go down a facet highway right here, nevertheless it’s attention-grabbing once you say we want others to have fun. I consider the concept we should always rejoice with those that rejoice and mourn with those that mourn. We do fairly good at mourning with folks and coming alongside, however rejoicing, after a day or so, we’re like, “I’m uninterested in rejoicing you. Let’s rejoice me.” Generally, we don’t enter into rejoicing within the success or the hope of one other. I’m grateful for that. We do want one another. Thanks for that.

About Pete Bowell

Earlier than we get into speaking in regards to the ebook the method, and all the things, I do wish to, for many who possibly gained’t return to the preliminary episode, do a thumbnail sketch bio so people who find themselves studying this have just a little little bit of a context for you, the ebook, and what you’ve completed.

I’m in my 60s. I was just a little reticent to share that, however I really feel like I’m embracing this stage of life. I discussed that as a result of this 12 months, 2024, marks 40 years of full-time ministry for me from pupil ministry, seminary, and the ministry there, after which working and co-founding Hope with my good pal David Dwight. That’s just a little little bit of my background.

I used to be born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I by no means thought I might get into ministry. I wished to get into some type of folks work. Positive sufficient, the Lord led me into the ministry lane and that calling a number of years in the past that I might proceed to minister to younger folks, that I minister as a bunch for adults, and start Hope Church along with David. That’s in all probability sufficient about me. I’ve acquired a spouse who, many would perceive of their partnership with their wives or their husbands, is such the energy for me and with me behind all of this. I’ve 3 grandchildren who’re all married and 1 cat. That’s the place we’re. That’s who I’m.

I went to the College of Maryland and majored in journalism. I loved that. I don’t even connect that concept of majoring in journalism with, “I wrote a ebook,” however there’s some background in there when it comes to phrases, writing phrases, and attempting to weave tales collectively. Ministry was after a short profession in public relations again in 1984. It has been 40 years. I’m grateful that the Lord has referred to as me into it.

That’s nice. That’s value celebrating. We return virtually the whole lot of these 40 years when it comes to our reference to each other. It goes again to your preliminary days at Third Presbyterian. We had so a few years there after which ultimately to my leaping in with Hope Church. There are such a lot of enjoyable tales that I take into consideration. I take into consideration you as I believe so many individuals do. You might be virtually the prototypical Pied Piper. You at all times have that.

It is a shaggy dog story that I bear in mind. We had years of connection at Third, after which I remained at Third within the preliminary years that Hope Church was launched. We started to make a transfer and discover Hope. I can bear in mind the very first Sunday that we got here to Hope. We had been strolling into the entrance door with our two sons, Chris and Alex. We had been very excited in regards to the risk that they’d love Hope Church. Younger boys loving church just isn’t at all times the factor.

You got here as much as us. You in all probability hadn’t seen us for a great whereas however you got here up, instantly appeared down at Chris and Alex, and mentioned, “Hello.” They had been just a little shell-shocked and all the things. You pulled out your pockets and mentioned, “I’ll offer you $1 greenback when you come to the youth group.” Their eyes acquired broad. It was like, “Who is that this man? I believed he was a minister and he’s paying us to return to the youth group.” You had them at that second.

It was a great funding.

Hope For A Season

We now have a lot of enjoyable reminiscences collectively through the years of a little bit of trip right here, some dinners, and all types of issues. Thank the Lord for you and your entire household. It’s a terrific opening bio. I wish to dive proper into Hope for a Season. Maintain the ebook up as a result of we could have this on YouTube in addition to for many who are studying. It’s a phenomenal cowl for the ebook.

I really like the water. That’s part of it.

That makes you’re taking a great lengthy, deep breath trying on the cowl. I wish to leap into the place the considering behind Hope for a Season comes from. Was there a primary considered, “I wish to do that,” after which in all probability mildew on the potential for writing one thing someday? It looks like so many individuals do this, however at the moment it could have crossed a unique line the place you mentioned, “I actually wish to do that.”

I’ve at all times wished to encourage folks. Irrespective of how linked folks appear to be, there’s typically loneliness inside. I’m at all times attempting to attach indirectly. A couple of years in the past, I started to get pleasure from writing our Christmas playing cards and attempting to go just a little outdoors the lane and never simply discuss household. I attempt to do it in a intelligent method. Individuals responded positively. They thought, “Wow.”

I wrote one just a few years in the past that it takes braveness to do routine or it takes braveness to do on a regular basis life. It appeared to resonate with folks. Meg, my spouse, would at all times say, “Maintain that one generally in sermons, homilies, or weddings.” She mentioned, “That was a great phrase. Maintain that one.” I began to throw these in a file.

I don’t bear in mind the way it precisely occurred. She was encouraging, “You must write a few of these out.” I don’t know if I’m good sufficient or artistic sufficient to jot down a narrative or a novel from starting to finish with characters, or possibly fiction. All I do know is God’s phrase from my entrance porch or from once I do devotionals. Generally, I’d learn one thing in God’s phrase and it might strike me and it might result in one other thought. I might write these little devotionals.

A couple of years in the past, I started to say, “I’m going to begin penning this.” My concept was to be actually profound and be the following Oswald Chambers. These of us within the church world know him. He has written a devotional for 362 days and is pretty profound. There are others on the market like John MacArthur, Tim Keller, and others who had been writing devotionals.

I wrote just a few after which despatched them to a pal who likes artistic writing. He is an effective author himself. He mentioned, “It’s okay, nevertheless it’s not you. I don’t hear you on this.” I really like tales. I really like household. I really like religion. I really like all of that. I started to calm down. There have been these little quirky ideas I might have when writing these Christmas playing cards or popping out the entrance porch from a devotion. Generally, I wasn’t even certain if it was theologically right. I’d have to return and examine that out just a little bit. Some is likely to be just a little little bit of a stretch.

One thing that’s coming to thoughts as I give it some thought throughout this episode is studying when Jesus entered the room after his resurrection and mentioned, “Peace be with you.” He entered a room the place the door was locked. I believed, “Was he smiling? Was he considering, “This might be fairly humorous. I’m going to stroll in there.” Most likely not, however on the similar time, it’s these little issues.

I write tales. I wrote a narrative right here about baptism. We go to Maine each summer time. My youngsters like to leap within the frigid water in the summertime. It’s like a ceremony of passage once you stand up there. I started to attach that to a baptism that I had completed within the fall in chilly water within the James River. It was any person who wished to be baptized earlier than they needed to obtain some extra remedy on the MD Anderson Most cancers Clinic. I began with that story of me leaping within the Maine water and the way frigid it’s.

The truth of what baptism does for us even when it’s chilly is it could possibly maintain us and maintain us. We could also be stronger than we predict we’re. We might have to recollect generally our baptism when occasions get onerous. Persons are like, “Instances are onerous. I don’t understand how I’m going to maintain it.” You do. You understand how to maintain it since you had been crucified with Christ and you’ve got been raised once more. You are able to do this, and your baptism tells you you are able to do this. It’s these ideas that may come collectively to jot down these devotionals.

I’m sorry. It’s just a little long-winded. You requested the way it started. It started with writing artistic little Christmas playing cards, saving some various things, after which starting to say, “I’ll write a few of these down.” I’m sincere. I’m being unfiltered. 362? You’ve written. It’s rather a lot. It’s. To make them separate and distinctive, I believed, “Huh.” I’m just a little bit ADD, so I don’t listen for that lengthy. I believed, “What a couple of season?” That’s one thing my spouse inspired me. She mentioned, “What when you assist folks with a season?”

Kate Bowler wrote 40. It was a 40-day devotional. I believed, “It’s not a nasty concept. Why don’t I write these 90 out, as a result of I added just a few for Christmas and Easter, and permit folks to say, “That is going to get me began once more,” nevertheless it’s not an on a regular basis dependence?” When you consider March, the winter months, or no matter season you don’t like, that is going to be a hope for a season. That is going that will help you to search out braveness. The truth is, the unique title I had considered was The Braveness of Sincere Religion. There are sincere tales right here. There are tales of religion right here. Possibly this may give braveness to folks.

This concept of hope is a deep thought. Hope for a Season is an on a regular basis liturgy for the weary and the unusual. That’s the place I attempt to deliver that braveness half in. I’m like, “I do know you might be weary. I do know you’re feeling unusual, however that is your on a regular basis life software.” The phrase liturgy means the work of the folks. It’s not standing up, sitting down in additional conventional service, and saying the Apostles’ Creed. It’s our work. It’s our on a regular basis work and the right way to keep religion for the weary within the unusual.

You mentioned the phrase braveness. I at all times relate that to the phrase encourage, which implies to place braveness in somebody which is so associated to hope. Realizing you for many years and having heard you preach, you’ve gotten a novel present of encouragement, however encouragement within the midst of the onerous realities of life and with a dose of quirkiness in it. That’s your voice.

I additionally love that that is for a season. It’s for 90 days. I really like devotionals and I’ve learn so many. They virtually all fall into the class of 30 days or three hundred and sixty five days. After I get 1 that’s three hundred and sixty five days, I could adore it, however that’s an enormous dedication to stay with one thing for all the 12 months. The 30-day ones that I at all times love are over too quickly. 90 days is that this excellent, proper dimension sort of devotional the place you may pour your self into it sufficient nevertheless it’s for a season. That’s a genius that I don’t know that I’ve seen in some other type of devotional stuff.

It’s for a season, and it’s useful to consider it that method. Whilst you’re sharing that, I’m considering it’s one thing that may take us to the following place however you’re not meant to be depending on it. I’m just a little embarrassed since you mentioned you’ve learn 30-day devotionals and three hundred and sixty five days, which is the variety of days in a 12 months. I discussed earlier within the episode, “362 could be very tough.” I’m like, “I missed three days.” This won’t be for the deepest mental individual.

In the event you solely miss three days in a 12 months, you’re doing fairly properly.

That’s proper.

Sabbath

Others could not know you in addition to I do, so I would like folks to get a taste of this. I do hope that there’s going to be a slew of people that will all purchase 100 copies from you.

Thanks.

I’m enthusiastic about the potential for this, however I would like folks to get a taste of you who I do know so properly. Would you choose considered one of them and skim it for us?

Yeah. We had a ebook launch for some people in our church not way back. I learn this entry. I really feel like this entry provides folks a way of the way in which these are written. I additionally suppose it’s necessary and relevant to our lives. I’m studying it to offer an instance for the ebook, however I hope it’s significant for people who find themselves studying that possibly this may be a useful factor to them. In the event that they’ve heard me learn it or say it earlier than, when you find yourself speaking about God’s phrase, generally, it could possibly strike you otherwise relying on the day. You’re prepared to listen to it.

Right here we go. It’s referred to as Sabbath Relaxation. “On the top of the pandemic in 2020, we had 9 folks residing in our 3-bedroom and 2-bathroom home for nearly 3 months. This was our try at quarantining collectively. After three days of quarantine, my oldest son wasn’t certain if this association was going to work.” He moved in together with his spouse and two little youngsters. I didn’t put that within the ebook. I’m including that right here. “He was in search of some peace and quiet which he couldn’t discover in his personal home, so he instituted one thing referred to as silencia On Tuesday nights throughout our time in quarantine. After dinner, no TV, no cell telephones, and no speaking. Candles had been lit in virtually each frequent room.

On these evenings of silencia, I hid in my room with a ebook in my arms and tears in my eyes praying for the pandemic and my youngsters to go away. Most of us should not superb at Sabbath relaxation. The ebook of Hebrews is finest identified for acknowledging the supremacy of Christ within the corridor of fame of religion. Tucked away in chapter 4 is an exhortation of Sabbath, “There stays then a Sabbath relaxation for the folks of God, for anybody who enters God’s relaxation additionally rests from the works as God did from His.”

All of us within the church world know in regards to the Sabbath. To paraphrase Andy Stanley, Sabbath is the one factor that may change all the things. Taking a Sabbath reaches into the deepest a part of us and reminds us that we’re created within the picture of God. Why can we keep away from Sabbath? Why is it so onerous to take 1 day and even 24 minutes to keep away from the iPhone electronic mail or the sucking sound of social media? Possibly our concern of lacking out or not mattering anymore is extra necessary to us than we care to confess. What if taking a Sabbath can develop our belief in God as a substitute of our have to be obtainable or make a distinction? There stays a Sabbath relaxation for the folks of God, and will probably be good to your soul. Silencia.

I really like that.

I begin lots of these with tales of my actual life, which is the true life for lots of people. The pandemic actually was wearisome to folks for the unusual day and saying, “There’s hope. You possibly can stand up tomorrow and do one other day. You’re not alone. You don’t struggle alone.” My experiences should not too totally different than anyone else’s with household, struggling, or challenges. I write about this stuff however at all times apply the scripture to floor us in one thing deeper than simply my story.

Hope

That’s so nice. One of many issues we’ve shared rather a lot through the years that expresses, in a way, is the connection between this Hope for Season and this present. This very concept of Sabbath, which I imagine a lot, is so crucial. It’s a place to search out life. If we have a look at the breadth of scripture, can we discover life and existence that doesn’t have a Sabbath? I virtually ponder whether we will. It’s such a core concept. Hope isn’t just a sense available. It’s a grounding in one thing that’s extra true within the midst of an extremely onerous life, which is the place braveness is available in.

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The phrase hope, whether or not you’re an individual who has religion in Christ or not, can really feel like, “That’s optimism. I hope tomorrow can be higher than immediately,” however is commonly grounded within the assurance that God loves us and He made us in His picture. You requested a query earlier earlier than the present in regards to the depth of hope and whether or not it’s greater than a sense of optimism. I started to suppose, and I don’t have time to actually dive deep into, “Is that this in line with what God is telling us?”

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A whole lot of our hope is rooted, and it would sound like a bizarre phrase to affiliate with hope, in honesty. We’re like, “I’m drained. Lord, I would like you. Lord, I’m hurting.” Hope begins once we’re sincere about our situation. Once we’re in that place and we start to know what we’re offended about or unhappy about, we confess that, and we come to the top of ourselves, our honesty will assist us have a look at true hope. That’s present in the concept we’re created within the picture of God, that there’s somebody we will pray to, and that despite the fact that we’re hard-pressed, we’re not crushed. Our hope is present in our Creator, one thing larger than us. That’s the place that agency assurance comes from.

That’s what distinguishes this message from lots of what’s on the market, which is optimism that claims, “I’m going to carry unfavourable issues at bay. I’m going to maintain the unfavourable issues at arm’s size in order that I can focus and be absorbed by optimistic ideas.” With what you might be suggesting, the type of hope that I do suppose is the hope that’s within the Bible, and the hope that’s in religion is a hope that’s extremely sincere. It has to start with the honesty of claiming, “I’m actually hurting now.” Hope is most related within the darkest valley.

That’s good. Hope is rooted in so many of those phrases that we’re accustomed to within the Christian world. The place our true hope is discovered is present in prayer, grace, rescue, and the cross. These are the issues that hold our hope grounded in these issues, not in our optimism. We might in all probability speak for the remainder of the episode about why I mentioned honesty, nevertheless it got here to me. As soon as we get to the place past false optimism, maybe we will discover the hope we’re in search of, and that’s the one who created us. I’m saying that a few occasions, “The person who created us,” or, “God created us in His picture.”

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I used to be very moved by one thing Tim Keller mentioned in direction of the top of his life in an interview. He mentioned, “The brand new evangelism just isn’t a lot that I’m a sinner and I don’t know what to do with my sin despite the fact that that’s true.” We all know that to be true. We’re sinners who want a spot for our sins. We discover that within the cross and in Christ. He mentioned, “The brand new evangelism is identification.”

Persons are like, “I sleep round. I don’t really feel convicted by that. I don’t really feel a conviction of sin,” as you Christians name it. What individuals are doing is carrying so many false identities and lots of false fronts. Once we notice that our identification is in Christ as Keller suggests, then we will say to an individual, “How are you? I’m doing nice. I’m having a great life. Is it onerous to maintain carrying that a part of your life as a part of your identification? Is it onerous to maintain carrying your gender confusion as your identification? Is that onerous? I must put myself on the market.” You should know that Jesus loves you for who you might be.

That’s the core.

We will start to say, “What about their conduct?” Begin with, “Can you discover your identification in Christ? Maintain pointing that method and Jesus will work these different issues out with you.”

I have a tendency to consider it as the massive I identification. All of us are going to have some small I identities of, “I determine as an writer,” or, “I determine with this job,” or, “I determine with my household.” On the core, all of these are beneath that core massive I identification.

It makes me take into consideration what Paul mentioned too. It’s like, “What’s your identification?” He was like, “I’m the worst of all sinners.” That honesty, nevertheless, brings him to the gospel. It brings him to grace. It brings him to, “I’m hard-pressed however not crushed. I’m perplexed however not in despair as a result of my identification is rooted in one thing much more.” It appears like just a little little bit of a facet highway to hope nevertheless it all provides as much as the hope that now we have.

I don’t know once you selected this explicit time for a ebook launch, however one of many issues I take into consideration with this explicit episode of the present, which I’m going to hurry to get out as a result of I would like it to be near your ebook launch which I’m enthusiastic about, is that we’re in a specific season as a folks and as a rustic the place we’re possibly much more so than regular in want of a house. There’s the vitriol of the political panorama, the worldwide scenario of the threatening wars, and the way in which that we’re at one another in so some ways.

I consider so many individuals that I do know who’re pulled down in onerous seasons of life, whether or not it’s illness, explicit struggling, or melancholy and nervousness. I don’t know of anyone who isn’t feeling notably weighed down by what life and the world are throwing at them. A phrase of hope for a season is so acceptable. We’d like that sincere sort of hope that you just’re speaking about. Individuals want that. We’d like that for this political season. We’d like this for our world scenario. We’d like this for the tough circumstances of our lives. I’m notably excited. This ebook is for such a time as this.

I actually recognize that. I speak in considered one of these devotionals about why we get offended at inanimate objects. When one thing’s improper with our automobile, we pound the dashboard. Our anger comes out in several methods as a result of we reside in a world that’s so tough. I’ve made a remark in one of many devotionals, “Your Honda doesn’t hate you. What’s it going to do once you get a flat tire, the engine goes dangerous, otherwise you want a brand new transmission? Will it activate its windshield wipers and shed just a few tears?” We’re getting offended rather a lot simpler. You solely requested me to learn one, however possibly I’ll break this one aside.

Go for it.

It’s referred to as Unity. I began this one by saying, “Generally, our motor runs too scorching. A couple of years in the past, the purple oil gentle on our Toyota got here on. My spouse insisted there was one thing improper with the automobile, however I’ve by no means let a purple gentle on my sprint and or an empty fuel gauge deter me. The truth is, operating out of fuel is a chance for non secular progress.”

I then went on to say, “Relying on our character, politics is one other matter that may overheat our engines. If our concern about our future well-being is dependent upon which candidate will get elected, we should always take note of our warning lights. Once we get fired up about an individual’s politics, we hear rather less and decide just a little extra. This could grieve us if we get to the purpose of mistreating one other individual made within the picture of God. A pastor in Atlanta, Georgia requested this query, “Can we disagree politically, love unconditionally, and pray for unity?

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I’m going on to complete it by saying, “Our divisions politically could make a message of unity appear naive. From our financial institution accounts to our positions on social points, excellent unity appears inconceivable. Possibly it’s true. Possibly the stakes are too excessive, however do not forget that a 1st-century rabbi from nowhere standing with 12 nobodies mentioned, “I’ll construct my church, and the gates of Hades won’t overcome it.” Someday, our political events can be over and Jesus will nonetheless be king. His church with its imperfect folks will nonetheless be standing.

Generally, our engines run too scorching. We break down the individuals who disagree with us. We could not shout on the display screen, however we harbor malicious intentions in our hearts. I don’t need hurting folks to be my closing discourse. Can we disagree politically, love unconditionally, and do all we will to the Holy Spirit’s energy to deliver unity?”

If folks don’t learn some other a part of this episode, this episode doesn’t exist for some other cause than to have learn that phrase. I grieve over the way in which politics is dividing individuals who love each other. Brothers and sisters in households and in religion grieve me, and that’s coming from somebody who cares rather a lot about politics in my very own method. I really like that. Thanks for that phrase.

It might be dangerous to say, however it doesn’t matter what facet of the political spectrum you’re on, there’s no excellent candidate, particularly on this political season. We really feel like our selections are restricted, whether or not or not it’s Democrat or Republican. We’re like, “This individual might be this manner and this individual doesn’t have what I believe over right here.” I’m not too fearful about who turns into president. What I wish to do is hold loving folks in my world, making an actual distinction, and figuring out that my king is totally different. I’m studying the first Samuel. The folks mentioned, “Give us a Cain.” God mentioned, “You need a Cain?” The folks had been like, “Yeah. Give us a Cain. Give us a political chief.” Positive sufficient, it’s a story of brokenness, problem, struggling, and wars ever since we wished a king aside from our king. It doesn’t imply there aren’t good occasions.

No matter the place we’re on this explicit factor on November sixth, 2024, lots of people are going to be in search of hope. Our hope has to reside in one thing larger. That may be a good sudden phrase. We didn’t plan this. It highlights how extremely necessary this hope is for the way we reside our days. 1 Corinthians 13 says, “Abide religion, hope, and love.” 1 of the massive 3 in all of what we contemplate being a non secular individual is the flexibility to be actually hopeful. Your present of the right way to give a phrase with honesty out of a narrative with a sure quirkiness is a specific present.

Usually, I wish to learn a ebook earlier than I speak to somebody who’s an writer, however because it got here out not way back, I haven’t been in a position to try this but. I’m actually excited a couple of season of hope for myself when it comes to studying this. I’m excited, actually, about sharing this ebook with others. We have already got just a few highlights that we’re enthusiastic about giving the ebook two. Do you suppose there can be one other ebook down the road?

The E-book For Our Time

I loved this ebook launch, writing little messages to every individual. Because it got here up for me to signal the ebook, I didn’t simply signal Pete. It gave me enthusiasm. Certainly one of my pals who helped me with this challenge mentioned, “Use this enthusiasm to jot down your subsequent ebook, Grace for a Season.” I believed I did have a file of those different devotions and such that I might love to try this in order that at some point, possibly there can be 365. The 4 of them collectively can be a compilation of hope, religion, and all these nice phrases that God has given us to clarify our religion, hope, and beauty in Him for a season. There’s a lot for this, however I’d be enthusiastic about that.

I considered the way you and I are virtually precisely the identical age.

Aren’t our birthdays two days or a month aside?

I’m two days older than you.

I used to be on the 18th of the month and also you had been on?

The eleventh. One week. What a phenomenal technique to enter right into a later season of life than to enter into this sharing. I’m enthusiastic about it. I share the thrill about the potential for writing.

Seriousness Of Pleasure

I wish to share a thought {that a} good pal of mine mentioned. We had been speaking about some difficulties. I used to be saying, “I’m nonetheless grateful within the midst of the difficulties. We could be hopeful even within the onerous season.” He mentioned, “We have to have a look at the seriousness of pleasure. We have to take pleasure extra severely.” I really like that. I don’t suppose we consider these two phrases collectively, critical and pleasure. It’s like an oxymoron or one thing. The Bible says, “In the event you’re having hope in the best individual, Jesus Christ, then you may have hope for each season.”

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I’ve written in lots of of those books once I’m signing them, “Right here is the ebook for each season.” We should always take rejoicing severely. Why? It’s as a result of it’s onerous, however you’ve gotten a better hope. You possibly can have hope and pleasure even within the midst of the issue. That’s why I did the subtitle For the Weary and the Strange. We will do that collectively. You don’t struggle alone.

That’s so nice. A verse I really like in scripture is, “Style and see if the Lord is Good.” I’m considering that with this episode, I really feel like it’s to get a style of this and see if that is good. I’m actually enthusiastic about studying this collectively. I’m enthusiastic about what you’ve completed. It’s superb work. With that mentioned, the place and the way do folks come up with Hope for a Season?

It’s a quite simple method. They’ve hooked up to our church’s web site, however PeteBowell.com. That’s it. You pull it up and there’s just a little description of the ebook and the right way to order it. We allow folks to order it by way of the church, which is cheaper than Amazon, nevertheless it’s additionally on Amazon. You and I’ve talked about why Amazon’s just a little bit costlier, nevertheless it’s the way in which they do issues. You possibly can go to PeteBowell.com and order that method. You can too choose them up at Hope on totally different days when you reside within the Richmond space. In the event you order greater than ten, there’s a reduced worth in that method too. That’s the way you do it. Go to PeteBowell.com or Amazon.

Are you going to do an audiobook?

I want to. Lots of people wish to hear and resonate. After I take into consideration an audiobook, I believe, “Is there a method that we might do by way of Hope some kind of podcast the place you’re on the way in which to work and also you tune in on day one and hear?”

That’s a terrific concept. You can too have a Hope for a Season app.

That’s a good suggestion. I hadn’t considered that. Thanks. We will do this. Some folks have learn it they usually mentioned, “I learn it from cowl to cowl.” I’m like, “That’s not the way in which you’re presupposed to do it. It’s for every day. Now I’ve to jot down one other one.” What they’ve mentioned is, “I’ve loved the tales. I acquired captured.” Every devotional is considerably distinctive in serving to us in several points of our religion.

Individuals, it’s high-quality to learn it by way of, however I might encourage you to return after which soak in it for every day. In the event you began this ebook in late October 2024 or early November 2024, it takes you proper by way of Christmas. Within the again, I’ve 5 devotionals or spoken phrases for Christmas after which 5 for Easter as a result of after Christmas, now we have the Easter season. It’s giving voice to these nice celebrations of our religion.

I might encourage you to do an audiobook model.

Thanks.

It reaches individuals who take in and select to learn by way of their ears. It’s a significant course of to learn your personal ebook. It’s onerous work nevertheless it’s very worthwhile.

I recognize that. Thanks.

There’s been so many good phrases for us to reside by on this time that we’ve shared collectively. The significance of sincere hope within the midst of our days is so crucial. On prime of that although, I do wish to encourage you to select up a replica or a lot of Hope for a Season not since you like Pete rather a lot as I do, however as a result of will probably be significant for you in your stroll to reside a greater, extra trustworthy life. Thanks a lot. I’m thrilled that we’ve had this time.

I really feel like I’m having a dialog with a pal. Thanks for that.

Thanks, everyone. It’s able to go. They’re not bought out fairly but of all of the copies, so choose up a replica. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of us. We can be again with a brand new episode.

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