Table of Contents
Foreword Donald Miller xi
Preface to the Second Edition xv
Part 1 Discovering the Kingdom
1 Beautiful, Mess: "Look Up Anyway," Jan Carson 3
2 What If?: "Rahab's Song" Vania Moore 10
3 Harpooning God 17
Part 2 Re-Visioning Life in the Kingdom
4 Seeing Through: "We Are a People" Caleb Kytonen 25
5 A Dimension of Being: "When My Brothers Were Too Young to Be Wise" Raeben Nolan 34
6 Jesus' Kingdom of Peace 46
7 Already, Not Yet 56
Part 3 Practicing the Presence of the Kingdom
8 Signposts of Heaven: "Blue" Monique Amado 72
9 Sharing the News About Our King 84
10 Welcome the Child: "Sylvan's Request" Nathan Bubna 93
11 Alive in a Million Mysteries: "Waiting" Sabrina Fountain 105
12 Stamp of Empire: "Advent," an excerpt, Kristin Mulhern Noblin 118
13 We Must Go Through Many Hardships: "Restless" Stefanie Faridnia 130
14 Slow Train Coming 144
Appendix 1 The Gospel and the Kingdom 153
Appendix 2 Kingdom Shifts 157
Excursions into the Kingdom; A Guide for Conversation 169
Acknowledgments 177
Notes 179