Product Details
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 3, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1404190066
- ISBN-13: 978-1404190061
- Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.6 x 0.9 inches
READ IT OR SKIP IT? SKIP IT
WHO MIGHT LIKE THIS BOOK? Christians who want to feel good about life and their own religion. Christians who want hope. Women and girls who enjoy devotionals.
WHO MIGHT HATE THIS BOOK? Non-Christians. Impatient readers. Intellectuals who want substance and real answers to the toughest questions and won't settle for "feel good" answers.
AUTHOR: Popular Christian Author Max Lucado. He has written many many books from the Calvinist Christian perspective.
SUMMARY: A daily devotional addressing aspects of God's person and reminding us that God is love and always with us.
QUICK BOOK REVIEW: I found this book meets the expectations of most devotionals - quick feel good answers that don't actually make you feel all that good. They might make you smile a little right after you read them, but half a day later, you've already forgotten them all. This book covers mostly topics relating to who God is (never changing, always truthful, someone you can trust, ) and why you should have hope (don't give up, hold on just a little longer, always be giving just a little more than everyone else, don't worry). After reading this book, I was still left feeling a distance between me and God. The God the book describes isn't the God that most of us know (if we are being truly honest with ourselves). Can we trust God? For what? Not to save us from giving us "too much to bear" and not to save us from calamities (cancer, death of loved ones, natural disasters, car accidents)... The book doesn't address serious answers to serious questions. It's a feel good read that only momentarily satisfies and it weakly satisfies even then. Almost all answers are only half a page long - one paragraph.
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