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By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:35:57 +0000

Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
Heaven by Randy Alcorn

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City Guides Cincinnati - Travel and Vacations — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:52:20 +0000

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By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:01:05 +0000

AHHHHH, no! Searching for God Knows What was an amazing book. I loved it and gained so much insight from it. I also just recently read Radical by David Platt. Amazing.

By: Sarah Macavity

Sarah Macavity — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:58:45 +0000

Searching for God Knows What, by Donald Miller. A lot of my friends are big Donald Miller fans. One of them wants to stalk him and marry him (she's pretty and, dare I say, even more awesome than he is). But they all disagree with me on this being his best book. And maybe that's because my background is so different from theirs. As a performance major, I see the "lifeboat" way of living all around me as everybody competes for attention; one minute everybody is great friends and the next minute somebody has snuck a penknife into somebody else's back just for a few seconds in the spotlight. To see Jesus as the way out from all this, as the only justification necessary to validate me, I don't have to fight, or compete or challenge. It was incredibly freeing. But this is one of those books that changed my life… and nobody else's, apparently.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:24:33 +0000

So I used to work in a christian book store and every day that I worked AT LEAST one person would come in and try to convince me that The Shack was the most amazing book ever. This would leave me awkwardly telling them how much I hated that book. I probably lost a lot of sales by people who just thought I was so weird for working at a christian store and not liking what they thought was the best book ever.

By: Collin

Collin — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:43:18 +0000

It's especially difficult when the problem isn't the writing or the subject matter, but the theology presented by the author. Your hear all about how great some book is from your friend, and when you go to read it, it's a theological boondoggle. "Well, I would have liked it except for the fact that it was impossible to wade though how wrong it was about everything," doesn't exactly go over well between friends. Come up with a kinder way to say it though, and you can end up having really good conversations with your friend. Make sure you have a bible nearby to show them in the bible why you disagree with the author, since hopefully your friend doesn't value some random author's opinion over God's word.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:55:14 +0000

Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies…ANYTHING by Anne Lamott!

By: wilsonwanderings

wilsonwanderings — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:17:53 +0000

Ahh, Wikipedia, the ultimate source to someone's intentions and heart.

Okay, that was kind of jerky, but really? Did you know her personally, or have you read any of her works? Because if so, I have a feeling you might have written otherwise.

By: The First Million Miles… « Creative Theology

The First Million Miles… « Creative Theology — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:13:05 +0000

[...] I read Donald Miller’s book, and it changed my life. No, really. There’s a chapter called “You’ll Be Different in the End,” [...]

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:48:44 +0000

This happens to me all the time. I think what often puts me off about heavily spiritual books is that they say things like "We don't love the poor, we just love our plasma screen TVs and our big, shiny Lexuses." (Should that be Lexi?") I immediately wonder why the author, who is clearly having some problems with greed and materialism, is suddenly including the entire Christian world into his or her personal problem? Maybe not EVERY Christian is a materialist. Maybe he should write the book saying, "I" or "some of us" instead of "we." But if you say this to the person whose life it changed, it implies that you think they're a materialist while you are not. And all you mean is that the author is casting a pretty wide stereotype net. It's better to just ask what they liked about the book.