Ashley Hales writes and speaks at the intersection of
faith, formation, and cultural imagination.
“Maybe you are exhausted by the ‘survival of the fittest’ culture all around you and the numbness it leaves behind. If so, read this book. ”
“Her theologically rich and pastoral invitation to slow down is a needed tonic in our culture of ambition and excess...”
“Ashley is the rare sort of writer, imaginative yet concrete, prophetic yet gentle. She only cuts where she can bring healing.”
If you’re a church leader and using Ashley’s books as a resource for small groups, sermons or meetings, please see what we offer for churches on this page.
A Fruitful Life: Discovering Jesus’ Invitation in the Sermon on the Mount
Jesus frequently used fruitfulness as a metaphor of growth and vitality in our faith. Just as a plant's fruitfulness reveals its health, there are spiritual characteristics that reveal our own growth and vitality.
But how do we get a life of fruitful obedience when we're exhausted, anxious, and busy? Jesus tells and shows us the way in his most famous sermon, The Sermon on the Mount. Much more than a list of rules–we discover that it's Jesus' vision of a good and fruitful life.
In their new eight-week Bible study A Fruitful Life, Ashley and Bryce Hales help readers dive deep into the Sermon on the Mount, and explore a life spent living and loving as Jesus did.
A Fruitful Life includes:
Eight sessions for group or individual use that include access to video teaching
Individual reflections for each day of the week for deeper study and sustained engagement
a spacious life: trading hustle and hurry for the goodness of limits
We're told that freedom and opportunity are our ticket to the good life. Get out there and follow your dreams! Be the hero of your own story! Find your happiness! Live your best life! It seems that limitless possibilities await anyone with vision and willingness to hustle their way through life.
The spacious life is not found in unfettered options or accomplished by our hustle and hurry. The life we crave is found within the confines of God's loving limits. Ashley helps us recognize that when we live within these boundaries, we discover a life filled with purpose, joy, and rest.
This is the spacious life—finding true freedom within the good limits given to us by our good God.
Available in paperback, ebook and audio.
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Finding holy in the suburbs: living faithfully in the land of too much
More than half of Americans live in the suburbs. For many Christians, however: The suburbs are ignored, denigrated and demeaned, or seen as a cop-out from a faithful Christian life. In everything from books to Hollywood jokes, the suburbs aren't supposed to be good for our souls.
What does it look like to live a full Christian life in the suburbs? Suburbs reflect our good, God-given desire for a place to call home. And suburbs also reflect our own brokenness.
Available in paperback, ebook and audio.
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