The Art of Stability
Latest Book Release from Rusty McKie Gospel Centered Discipleship
“If you are interested in hearing a voice and/or reading the words of someone who flies under the radar, does the long and steady work, and is the real deal, Rusty is your guy.”
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Ten days into the very first lockdown, I got Covid. I could barely think or move, and I couldn’t concentrate on anything long enough to read, listen, or watch anything either. I lay in silence for about a week, before my health came back to me.
In the weeks and months that followed, whenever someone I knew caught Covid, I’d find myself responding to another message that essentially said:
“I’ve got Rona, what do I do?”
I would always reply:
“Wait, and listen.”
I found that in the emptiness, while my thoughts failed to entertain or educate me, my enemy saw an opportunity. Temptations, accusations, lies, and memories sprung up—seemingly out of nowhere—and lacking any strength of my own to fight back with, God showed himself to be stable and sure, more than able to fight my battles himself. I learned a lot about the footholds the enemy had carved into my life, and the tactics he uses to try and dismantle me, and in the years since I’ve been able to draw on that knowledge, as well as the memory of God’s perfect stability.
In his new book, The Art of Stability, Rusty McKie guides us into the silence and the stillness that modern life has done its best to destroy, and helps us to navigate hard conversations with ourselves and with God. We know that God is our shield, our salvation, and that his right hand is ready to support us1, but we don’t always live as though that is true.
Life’s difficulties can overwhelm our sense of God's presence, but we can take comfort in the fact that He is near and full of compassion. The Art of Stability is not a how-to manual for floating above the pain of life but rather a path for weary hearts to find their way back to Love. By embarking on this journey, we can discover the safety, love, and resilience that has always been available to us through Jesus.
You can purchase the Art of Stability right now, either as a paperback, or as an eBook. You can either buy the eBook at our own website, or over on Amazon. Either way, please do let us know what you learn about God and about yourself as you read the book. We’ll be sharing more about the book over the next few weeks here in the GCD Weekly Newsletter and we’d love to include your thoughts, or answer any questions you have about the book.
Grace and Peace,
Adsum Try Ravenhill is married to Anna and together they are passionate about seeing men and women discipled in the context of the local church. They live in Reading, UK and are part of a church plant that meets in the town hall. Adsum edits theGCD Weekly Newsletterand can be found through his writing atThe Raven’s Writing Desk. You can find all Adsum’s previous articles for GCDhere.
Psalm 18:35
I am so scattered that I did not even know your ministries were connected! 😂