J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life

  Table of Contents: Illustrations Part 1: Discovering the J-Curve 1. “I Will Never Do This Again”: The J-Curve and How It Helps 2. "I Take Your Place": The Substitutionary Nature of Love 3. Marketing the Self: What We Do Instead of the J-Curve 4. Liberating the Self: The Foundation of the J-Curve 5. In Harvard: Union with Christ Comes Alive 6. In Sports or In Christ?: How Location Changes Everything 7. It’s All about Who You Know: Knowing Jesus in the J-Curve 8. Missing Justification by Faith: The J-Curve without Justification  9. Missing the J-Curve: Justification by Faith without the J-Curve  Part 2: Dying with Jesus 10. Dying to Self: Understanding Different J-Curves 11. A Cascade of Love: Weaving J-Curves Together  12. Life at the Bottom of the J-Curve: Making Sense of Persistent Evil 13. Living in the Borderland: How to Thrive in a Broken World Part 3: The Descent of Love 14. Love Loses Control: Discovering the Shape of Love 15. The Art of Disappearing for Love: How the Incarnation Defines Love 16. Recovering a Vision of the Good: The Wonder of the J-Curve 17. Celebrating Christ Bearers: Rediscovering Hidden Saints  18. The Hinge of the J-Curve: Understanding the Will 19. The Four Steps of Love: Re-enacting Jesus’s Descent  20. The J-Curve Calms a Quarrel: Creating a Path to Reconciliation  Part 4: Rising with Jesus 21. Discovering the Power of Resurrection: What Makes the J Go Up? 22. Repersonalizing the Resurrection: Discovering the Forgotten Half of the J-Curve 23. Looking through a Resurrection Lens: The J-Curve Transforms Our Vision of Life 24. The Secret of an Irritation-Free Life: The J-Curve Cures Grumbling 25. Resurrection Realism: The J-Curve Protects Us from Cynicism 26. Delaying Resurrection for Love: Saying No to Good Desire 27. Becoming Human Again: The Emotional Life of the J-Curve 28. The Art of J-Curve Living: Dying and Rising in Twenty-Four Hours 29. Seeing the Big Picture: Multiyear Dying and Rising Part 5: Forming a J-Curve Community 30. The Power of Weakness: How the J-Curve Defeats Tribalism 31. The Spirit at the Center: Learning Wisdom Down Low  32. Love Treads Softly: Entering the Complexity of Love 33. Leadership Goes Low: Re-enacting Jesus in Community 34. Keeping Jesus Pure: The J-Curve Divides the Community 35. Jesus: The Ultimate Party Crasher 36. The Beauty of a Jesus Community: Including the Distant Outsider ConclusionAfterwordAcknowledgmentsGeneral IndexScripture Index Paul E. Miller (MDiv, Biblical Seminary) is the executive director of seeJesus as well as the best-selling author of A Praying Life and several other books. With the help of his ministry staff, Miller creates and conducts interactive discipleship seminars throughout the world. He and his wife, Jill, live in the Philadelphia area and have six children as well as a growing number of grandchildren.