TO LIVE WELL
Practical Wisdom for Moving Through Chaotic Times
You were told to live a meaningful life. But no one ever told you how.
Our lives are shaped by contradictions. Competing voices tell us who to be, what to want, and how to live. The result? A fragmented moral imagination. We're handed a thousand broken messages and left to cobble together something resembling a life. But instead of clarity, we get exhaustion. Instead of wisdom, we get anxiety.
This leaves you asking yourself How can I get through when I feel alone and confused? How can I live well in this broken and chaotic world?
In To Live Well, Alan Noble shows you how you can not only endure but flourish in life. Through exploring the seven virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance, faith, hope, and love, you'll learn how to
choose gracefully,
act justly,
suffer steadfastly,
live moderately,
believe soundly,
hope resolutely, and
love rightly.
This book won't give you a ten-step plan to fix everything. It doesn't promise clarity overnight. But it will invite you into something deeper: an ancient, time-tested path of habits of heart and mind that shape who we are and how we live.
With honesty, theological depth, and a mentor's heart, Noble names your confusion and offers an antidote—not by escaping the mess but by learning how to live faithfully within it. If you've ever longed for something solid in a world that just wants to sell you more temporary stuff, To Live Well is a good place to begin.
ALAN NOBLE (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow at the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and author of On Getting Out of Bed, You Are Not Your Own, and Disruptive Witness. Noble has published articles at The Atlantic, The Gospel Coalition, First Things, and Christianity Today. He lives with his wife and three children in Oklahoma City.
“There are certain writers who seem to come at their topics from different directions than I do yet reach the same conclusions. Alan Noble is one of these writers, which is exactly why I find such pleasure in reading what he writes. In this book, he writes as someone who has studied his subject deeply and loved his readers well. It is philosophical yet practical, profound yet understandable, and always deeply biblical. I think it’s just what many young Christians need to grow their obedience to God and spur their love for others.”
“What a book! Each chapter brims with wisdom—drawn from Scripture, steeped in deep reading, and refined through life experience. I found myself not only nourished personally but also earmarking pages to send to family and friends wrestling with major decisions or simply trying to make faithful daily choices. Truly one of the year’s best.”
“Thank God for Alan Noble—for his voice and witness! Like all of Alan’s books, To Live Well is a balm for the hurting, written with honesty, wisdom, and so much love. How can we piece together all the fragments of advice in our oversaturated world? To Live Well puts the puzzle together for us, cementing the broken bits of colored glass into a cathedral window through which we experience God’s light.”
“We live in a culture marked by restlessness and chaos, in great need of clarifying voices. Alan Noble is one of those voices. To Live Well offers us the gifts of astute cultural insight, pastoral steadiness, and practical help, reminding us that human flourishing isn’t a reality we construct but is found in returning, again and again, to the One who offers us life and life to the full.”