A Fruitful Life

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Ashley Hales (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is a writer, speaker, and host of the Finding Holy podcast. She is the author of Finding Holy in the Suburbs and her writing has been featured in Christianity Today, Books and Culture, and The Gospel Coalition. Ashley is married to a pastor and the mother to four children.

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"Ashley and Bryce Hales have collaborated to teach on the Sermon on the Mount. Even though much has been written on the Sermon on the Mount-in both books and Bible studies-Ashley and Bryce desire to gently guide participants through spiritual growth as they engage with Jesus' most famous sermon. This study places a high emphasis on the rhythms necessary to sustain personal and corporate faith, leaning on Dallas Willard's three-fold path of incorporating vision, intention, and methodology. Each week there is space for participants to imagine or envision a fruitful life based on the passage of scripture, a day to see Jesus as the fulfillment of the promise or command discussed, as well as a focus on intention (a "setting our hearts towards fruitfulness" section) and a methodology ("becoming a person who bears fruit"). Fruitfulness allows for various seasons of tilling, or times where the ground is fallow, and also times of growth and harvest. But over time, the Christian who is rooted in God's life will be like a tree planted by streams of water (Psalm 1) who bears fruit in season"--