The Good and Beautiful Life

“I have never met a person whose goal was to ruin his or her life. We all want to be happy, and we want it all of the time.”

So begins James Bryan Smith in The Good and Beautiful Life.

The problem is, he tells us, we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. These self-centered decisions lead us further into the vices that cause ruin: anger, lust, lying, worry and judging. Eventually we find ourselves living a beautifully packaged life of self-destruction.

Tracing the Sermon on the Mount, this follow-up to The Good and Beautiful God guides us to look behind these character flaws and to replace our false beliefs with Jesus’ narratives about life in the kingdom of God.

Like the first book in the Apprentice Series, The Good and Beautiful Life includes soul-training exercises, reflection questions and a group guide that make it ideal for people to explore as a community of disciples.

“The Apprentice Series is the best practice I have seen in Christian spiritual formation.”
—Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy

For more information on The Apprentice Series and The Good and Beautiful Life, visit ivpress.com.