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    Living in the New Creation: Reframing Your Life
    Living in the New Creation: Reframing Your Life
    Living in the New Creation: Reframing Your Life
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    Living in the New Creation: Reframing Your Life

    By Rev. Michael Lessard

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    In this volume, I want to move us forward to consider the implications of a pastoral care church (community) model in Christian moral theology and the necessary conflict with specific elements of our modern culture. The foundation of our present cultural moral climate has a lot in common with similar fundamental questions that also burdened our

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBook Vine Press
    Release dateSep 4, 2020
    ISBN9781952835995
    Living in the New Creation: Reframing Your Life
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    Rev. Michael Lessard

    The Rev. Michael Lessard is president of Pastoral Care Associates, an organization that provides pastoral care services and pastoral care training, through the Pastoral Care Associates School of Pastoral Ministry to hospitals and healthcare centers in Phoenix. Arizona. He is also the Rector of the Oratory of the Sacred Family of Jesus, building interdenominational partnerships for caring ministries. Michael is an Anglican Priest with the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA). He has served as pastor, associate pastor and vicar before moving into chaplaincy. He has been board certified as a chaplain (4 units of CPE) and is a advanced trainer through Leadership Education and Development, (LEAD, plus). He suffered the death of his wonderful wife in 2015, and has three adult children and one grandchild. Rev. Lessard's other books are: "Christology of the Family" and a novel "The Lost Dutchman. Follow him on the pastoral care associates website or on facebook.

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