KAVANAH AND JESUS: The Life Between the Miracles
How Jesus Loved His Father and the Spirit Formed His Friends
By Cadre Missionaries, Dave and Rennie Garda
We often read the Gospels by moving from miracle to miracle, teaching to teaching, story to story.
But what was happening between the miracles?
What was it like to actually live alongside Jesus—to walk the roads with Him, share meals around tables, listen as Scripture entered ordinary conversations, watch Him respond to interruptions, and notice the relationship with His Father that shaped everything He did?
Kavanah and Jesus: The Life Between the Miracles invites you to slow down and watch Jesus before trying to explain Him.
Kavanah is an ancient Hebrew idea of an aimed or directed heart—a life intentionally turned toward God. Jesus didn’t simply teach that kind of life. He lived it. His love for His Father shaped His prayers, relationships, choices, conversations, meals, journeys, and ordinary moments.
And His friends were watching. They didn’t receive a textbook. They received a life.
As you journey through these pages, you’ll explore the often-overlooked rhythms of Jesus’ everyday life: His Jewish home and synagogue formation, the Shema, prayer and Scripture, friendship and hospitality, the road and table as classrooms, the mutual life He created among His disciples, and the quiet work of the Holy Spirit forming ordinary people as they learned to follow Jesus together.
This isn’t primarily a book about mastering another method of discipleship. It’s an invitation to recover something beautifully simple: Walk with Jesus. Pay attention to God. Love the people He puts around you. And discover how ordinary life becomes the place where God forms us together.
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“I have called you friends.” — John 15:15
Kavanah and Jesus: The Life Between the Miracles is Book 2 in the Kavanah and Jesus series from Dave and Rennie Garda and Cadre Missionaries. It's a part of the Jesus & Kavanah Book Series.