Born on Purpose explores birthdays as a doorway into deeper questions of dignity, identity, conscience, grief, recognition, stewardship, and purpose. Will Bourne offers a Christ-centered path beyond compulsory celebration and compulsory abstention, helping readers and families live faithfully inside time without turning a date into destiny or a personal conviction into control.
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Sacred Time: A Bourne Again Formation Series · Volume 3 of 4 · Catalog 43187
Born on Purpose
Incarnation, Identity, Stewardship, and the Gift of Being Here
Born on Purpose explores birthdays as a doorway into deeper questions of dignity, identity, conscience, grief, recognition, stewardship, and purpose.
Bourne Again Living Library · Catalog 43187
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Born on Purpose explores birthdays as a doorway into deeper questions of dignity, identity, conscience, grief, recognition, stewardship, and purpose. Will Bourne offers a Christ-centered path beyond compulsory celebration and compulsory abstention, helping readers and families live faithfully inside time without turning a date into destiny or a personal conviction into control.
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Sacred Time
Explore how Christian memory, celebration, purpose, and covenant shape the way people inhabit time.
Explore this pathway →Continue to the next volume · CATALOG 43188Covenant Over Time
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