Welcome Home: The Good News of Jesus

By S. D. Morrison

Catch a fresh vision of who you are, why you're here, and where you belong as author and theologian Stephen D Morrison encourages you with the good news of Jesus. In a unique and innovative way, read as he takes you to the very heart of what makes this good news so good. You are welcomed home in the embrace of a God who loves you, and has given Himself to you unreservedly. But who is this God, and what is this God like? In this concise but powerful little book you just may find yourself encouraged, challenged, and changed by its message.

Welcome Home is the work of a theologian writing to simply and clearly explain who God is and what God has done for the world in Jesus. If you're looking for something new, something to intellectually challenge you and yet spiritually encourage you, then read this book. Drawing from the works of great theologians like Karl Barth, Thomas F. Torrance, and Jurgen Moltmann, read as Stephen expounds in simply and profoundly the good news.

• Language: English
• Publisher: S. D. Morrison
• Release date: Apr 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781631741531

S. D. Morrison

S. D. Morrison, author and theologian, is a self proclaimed "grace enthusiast" who's deeply passionate about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is joyfully married to the love of his life, Ketlin, since 2013. He graduated from Bethel's School of Supernatural Ministry as well in 2013 and has since retained an interested in studying theology. S. D. Morrison writes to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ as truly GOOD news! With a theological mindset, he hopes to progress the Christian understanding of what happened in Jesus Christ. His influences include Karl Barth, Thomas F. Torrance, Jurgen Moltmann, C. Baxter Kruger, and Robert F. Capon. He is currently in between countries, jumping across the Atlantic a few times each year between Tallinn, Estonia and the United States. Stephen considers himself to be a theological-rebel. He loves to think differently about commonly held beliefs in order to progress the Christian conversation. S. D. Morrison is the author of "We Belong: Trinitarian Good News", and "Where Was God?". For more about Stephen, as well as to stay up to date with articles and news, please visit his website: www.SDMorrison.org

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Welcome Home:

The Good News of Jesus

Stephen D Morrison

Copyright © 2016 S. D. Morrison

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Acknowledgments:

A big thank you goes to everyone who is a part of my Readers Group (the subscribers to my email list). A special shout-out goes to everyone who provided me with valuable feedback on this book. Thank you: Jane Gianoutsos, Adam Garner, John Nankervis, Tim Heath, Wesley Rostoll, Jay Bradley Reed, Lyne Clough, and Fran Means.

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About Where Was God?:

Theologically challenging, and deeply personally, in Where Was God? Stephen re-examines the ever important question of God and human suffering. Written as a conversation between four friends, this book is at once theologically significant and practically profound. It is approachable, simple, and powerful.

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I’ve traveled a lot in my life, especially recently since my wife’s been in school. We’ve lived half in the U.S. and half in Europe these last three years. But it’s challenging to live like this, because neither place feels like home anymore. I’m always feeling like an outsider, at least partially, because everything changes so fast when we’re gone. Every time we return to either place it’s always familiar yet different enough to feel brand new. But never does it feel like coming home, in the traditional sense of the word.

But home isn’t a location, I’ve come to learn. Humans are nomadic by nature, we’ve always been on the move. Yet to be human is to be in relationship. What are we but the company we keep? We have our individuality, for sure, but would it last without community? Isolation can drive a person insane. Only in community are we free to be individuals; only in relationship are we free to be ourselves.

This is home: community. Home isn’t a house you live in, it’s the people you share life with. For me that’s most of all my wife, but it’s also my parents and my friends from around the globe. My wife is always with me, and thanks to the internet I am only a click away from anyone in the world I want to see. So home for me now is more about these people than it is about what country I happen to be in this month. And it’s these people who I love and trust that make up who I am and make up what I call home.

And that’s the other thing about home. As a community, home means more than just people, because it’s more about being with the people who love you, the people you belong to. It’s an often unspoken element to home, but perhaps it’s the most essential. Home is when we share life with people we love, who love us, people we’d die for,