The Way of Excellence that Leads to Shalom

About the Book

About the Author

> Author Lloyd Austin Phillips is a down-to-earth yet scholarly communicator and ordained minister. He uses his talents to promote faithful living. He has done this through sermonizing and by a TV program focusing on family faith, which he prepared and directed for three years. Phillips has authored three other books: “Fire From The Sky” consists of essays on “Revelation.” Written before 9/11. “Cancer’s Seeming Madness” deals with his once agnostic son, David, who died as a son of faith at the age of 43. “Hope For Today’s Living” deals with hope for our time found in Mark’s Gospel. The focal point of this book is Reuben whose efforts to fulfill what was expected of him as an eldest son proved to be a mixed blessing for Jacob’s clan. Even so, a God-given excellence weaves its way in Reuben’s mercurial life like a herringbone stitch provides a pleasing pattern to a sweater. God has a way of making this happen in our lives through the indwelling presence of His Son. Phillips emphasizes that despite lapses and moral failure like Reuben’s and his own, one can experience personal shalom (peace) because of the sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary’s cross.