{"product_id":"hustling-god-why-we-work-so-hard-for-what-god-wants-to-give-9780310239529","title":"Hustling God: Why We Work So Hard for What God Wants to Give","description":"\u003ch2\u003eStop Hustling for What God Wants to Give You\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nWe work relentlessly to earn better jobs, homes, relationships, and even spirituality. Like Jacob in the Old Testament—whose name means \"striver, schemer, supplanter, hustler\"—we manipulate and scheme our way toward what we think will satisfy us. But this exhausting approach to life misses a fundamental truth: God is not waiting for us to climb up to Him. He climbed down the ladder to be with us.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ci\u003eHustling God: Why We Work So Hard for What God Wants to Give\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the American Dream mentality that has infiltrated our spiritual lives. Author M. Craig Barnes, pastor of Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offers a different path for hard-running, stressed-out, burned-out believers.\n\nDrawing from real-life stories of men, women, and families in the churches he has served, Barnes reveals how we try to manipulate ourselves into a position of advantage with God—a position that has been ours all along. This book confronts the exhausting cycle of spiritual striving and invites readers to open their hands and receive what God has been waiting to give.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nLife is not something we grasp and clutch to ourselves, but a gift God freely offers. Barnes explores the biblical story of Jacob to illuminate our own patterns of hustling and scheming. Through pastoral wisdom and authentic anecdotes, he shows how God's blessings come not through our efforts to earn them, but through our willingness to receive them.\n\nThis book speaks directly to anyone exhausted by the pressure to perform spiritually, to achieve more, to be better. It offers rest for those who have been running too hard for too long, reminding us that grace cannot be earned—only accepted.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFor Readers Seeking Rest\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nIf you're tired of trying to earn God's favor, if you're burned out from spiritual striving, or if you're ready to stop hustling and start receiving, this book provides the biblical perspective you need. M. Craig Barnes combines theological depth with pastoral compassion to guide readers toward a life of grace rather than grinding.\n\n\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarnes, M. Craig:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - M. Craig Barnes is pastor of Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His previous books are Yearning, Hustling God, and When God Interrupts.","brand":"Zondervan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493598925074,"sku":"9780310239529","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53383e26-65eb-4ca5-9eda-cf70fde4af8f.jpg?v=1730653744","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hustling-god-why-we-work-so-hard-for-what-god-wants-to-give-9780310239529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}