Free (nook/Kindle/iTunes/DRM-free) Shrewd: Daring to Live… [Xtian Behavioural Advice]

[ATDrake]

Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus by Rick Lawrence is some kind of biblically-guided behavioural advice guide which apparently argues that you should be more Christ-like in a certain way* which he argues from his interpretation of the scriptures (YMMV, as some of the customer reviews do), free courtesy of Christian publisher David C. Cook.

Currently free, probably just for the next day @ B&N (also in the UK), Amazon (available to Canadians and in the UK), iTunes (available to Canadians), and also ChristianBook (DRM-Free ePub available to selected countries) & BookShout (available for online reading & app download), and possibly several other stores linked in the publisher's catalogue page.

Description
It doesn’t seem to make sense: Jesus tells his disciples to take a lesson from Satan himself.

A scandalous idea? Yes. Essential to the Christian life? Definitely.

Drawing on Jesus’s parable of the shrewd manager in Luke 16, Rick Lawrence explores Jesus’s shocking mandate to be as shrewd as Satan and as innocent as the Holy Spirit. In fact, Jesus implies, if we are going to be any good for the Kingdom of God, we’ve got to be a lot shrewder than we are now.

Shrewd shows us how Jesus was naturally shrewd in every encounter he had, using leverage such as laughter, generosity, and bluntness to influence a situation for good.

God calls us to be shrewd without evil intent, just as Jesus was. Because the truth is that we have no salvation outside of the holy shrewdness of a loving God. And that’s a scandalous story worth telling.

* Ah, if only I could still link the now-defunct Fandom W*nk Wiki's "Like Jesus, In A Way" write-up for that copypasta/hotlinking/plagiarism kerfuffle. Well, maybe one day it'll resurrect.

[ATDrake]

Now a repeat freebie in the original stores (minus BookShout). Newly free @ Kobo (not available to Canadians) & Google Play (available to Canadians).