You're Only Human
How Your Limits Reflect God's Design and Why That's Good News
Published on 12. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-58743-703-8 (ISBN)
Description
Work. Family. Church. Exercise. Sleep.
The list of demands on your time seems to be never-ending. It can leave you feeling a little guilty--like you should always be doing one more thing.
Rather than sharing better time-management tips to squeeze more hours out of the day, Kelly Kapic takes a different approach. In You're Only Human, he offers a better way to make peace with the fact that God didn't create us to do it all by
? exploring the theology behind seeing our human limitations as a gift rather than a deficiency;
? laying out a path to holistic living with life-giving relationships and meaningful contributions to the world;
? freeing us from confusing our limitations with sin; and
? inviting us to rest in the joy and relief of knowing that God can use our limitations to foster freedom, joy, growth, and community.
Readers will emerge better equipped to cultivate a life that fosters gratitude, rest, and faithful service to God.
The list of demands on your time seems to be never-ending. It can leave you feeling a little guilty--like you should always be doing one more thing.
Rather than sharing better time-management tips to squeeze more hours out of the day, Kelly Kapic takes a different approach. In You're Only Human, he offers a better way to make peace with the fact that God didn't create us to do it all by
? exploring the theology behind seeing our human limitations as a gift rather than a deficiency;
? laying out a path to holistic living with life-giving relationships and meaningful contributions to the world;
? freeing us from confusing our limitations with sin; and
? inviting us to rest in the joy and relief of knowing that God can use our limitations to foster freedom, joy, growth, and community.
Readers will emerge better equipped to cultivate a life that fosters gratitude, rest, and faithful service to God.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ada, MI
United States
Publishing group
Baker Publishing Group
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58743-703-8 (9781587437038)
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Person
Kelly M. Kapic (PhD, King's College, University of London) is professor of theological studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, where he has taught since 2001. He is a popular speaker and the award-winning author or editor of more than 15 books, including the devotional You Were Never Meant to Do It All and the Christianity Today Book Award winner Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering.
Content
Contents
Part 1: Particularity and Limits
1. Have I Done Enough? Facing Our Finitude
2. Does God Love . . . Me? Crucified . . . but I Still Live
3. Are the Limits of My Body Bad? Praise God for Mary
4. Why Does Physical Touch Matter? Images, Trauma, and Embodied Worship
5. Is Identity Purely Self-Generated? Understanding the Self in Context
Part 2: Healthy Dependence
6. Have We Misunderstood Humility? Joyful Realism
7. Do I Have Enough Time? Clocks, Anxiety, and Presence
8. Why Doesn't God Just Instantly Change Me? Process, Humanity, and the Spirit's Work
9. Do I Need to Be Part of the Church? Loving the Whole Body
10. How Do We Faithfully Live within Our Finitude? Rhythm, Vulnerability, Gratitude, and Rest
Indexes
Part 1: Particularity and Limits
1. Have I Done Enough? Facing Our Finitude
2. Does God Love . . . Me? Crucified . . . but I Still Live
3. Are the Limits of My Body Bad? Praise God for Mary
4. Why Does Physical Touch Matter? Images, Trauma, and Embodied Worship
5. Is Identity Purely Self-Generated? Understanding the Self in Context
Part 2: Healthy Dependence
6. Have We Misunderstood Humility? Joyful Realism
7. Do I Have Enough Time? Clocks, Anxiety, and Presence
8. Why Doesn't God Just Instantly Change Me? Process, Humanity, and the Spirit's Work
9. Do I Need to Be Part of the Church? Loving the Whole Body
10. How Do We Faithfully Live within Our Finitude? Rhythm, Vulnerability, Gratitude, and Rest
Indexes