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Leaving Egypt: Finding God in the Wilderness Places
The Exodus story is your story. The Israelites' liberation from Egypt and journey to the promised land is one the Bible's most compelling stories a breathtaking account of competing wills, freedom and slavery, faith and doubt.
But the Exodus isn't just a long-ago Bible story. It's the overarching theme of every person's life. We each find ourselves enslaved: to work, to des...more
But the Exodus isn't just a long-ago Bible story. It's the overarching theme of every person's life. We each find ourselves enslaved: to work, to des...more
Paperback, 246 pages
Published
November 16th 2011
by Faith Alive Christian Resources
(first published November 15th 2011)
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Sometimes you find the right book at the right time; Leaving Egypt was that book for me. I embraced the words Chuck De Groat wrote and hugged them to my heart every morning during my quiet time. Here is someone who is speaking too many of us who are holding onto things that are keeping us in bondage. Whether those burdens are actual possessions or addictions, or even comfortable habits that detract from our true purpose in this life, we need help to move on.
Based on the Exodus story, De Groat d...more
Based on the Exodus story, De Groat d...more
In Leaving Egypt: Finding God in the Wilderness Places, DeGroat starts with the premise that "The Exodus story is your story."
The entire book resonated deeply with me and I saw my own life in new and fresh ways as the author related my journey (our journeys) to the Exodus journey. With topics of fear, lament, brokenness, community, identity and freedom I found myself fully engaged as each new chapter unfolded. I'm now looking forward to walking through this book with others in the context of com...more
The entire book resonated deeply with me and I saw my own life in new and fresh ways as the author related my journey (our journeys) to the Exodus journey. With topics of fear, lament, brokenness, community, identity and freedom I found myself fully engaged as each new chapter unfolded. I'm now looking forward to walking through this book with others in the context of com...more
One of the most disorienting things in life is suffering. Even when we know all the right things about how the world is fallen and broken in every way, pain jars us, and makes us question who God is and our relationship to him, in part because "we are not often told that once we've been delivered into freedom, the hardest times may still be ahead" (pg 75.) As we journey through life and its inevitable suffering, we need to be reminded of the truth, and Leaving Egypt is an able and welcome guide....more
Grab your Bible, grab this book and prepare to dig in. Chuck DeGroat goes in depth with you, figuring out what your Egypt is, and although painful sometimes to really think of those things, remember one word. GRACE.
I enjoyed the quotes, I enjoyed the Discussion Questions. Talk about looking and examing everything, trying to figure out if you are holding yourself prisoner.
However, my complaints would be, at times I felt as if it was jumping all over the place thoughtwise, and I was reading a lot...more
I enjoyed the quotes, I enjoyed the Discussion Questions. Talk about looking and examing everything, trying to figure out if you are holding yourself prisoner.
However, my complaints would be, at times I felt as if it was jumping all over the place thoughtwise, and I was reading a lot...more
This book is one we use in the Counseling Skills class I help supervise for my job. It is an important read for anyone wanting to understand the connection between pursuing holiness simultaneously to wholeness. The author writes from the helpful combination of pastor and counselor. However, anyone could find this book relevant.
Chuck DeGroat helps the reader live into the experience of the Exodus by showing that we have wilderness experiences in life. It may be easy to see that people with addictions fit into this category, but by reading I could identify areas and ways in which I live by grasping rather than open-handedly ready to both give and receive. Includes questions for discussion or journaling for those who want to go deeper.
An incredible book full of great truths that I need constant reminders of. This is one that will stay in my current kindle reading material, because its just so encouraging and healing.
Really good book. Recommended it to a number of people who have also liked it.
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Chuck DeGroat is director of the counseling center at City Church in San Francisco, as well as academic dean of the Newbigin House of Studies. He also served as professor and director of spiritual formation at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
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