I like it… but….

I want to tell you to go out and buy this book right now…. but I just can’t do it.

I’m not sure how much George Barna had to do with the writing of it, it seems to be all Frank Viola and it is really, really good.

HOWEVER…… Viola has done what we all do and become a little single minded and closed to some truth and it spoils parts of the book.

If you want to understand the roots of most of our traditions, this is the book for you.

If God is calling you to do church differently from how it has ‘traditionally’ been done, this is also the book for you. BUT…. seek God’s guidance over every part of it because sometimes I feel the author(s) go a little too far and lose focus on what God is saying.

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The best book ever written (except the Bible).

I once said that Blue Like Jazz was a stunningly, stunningly good book. Compared to this, it’s … well, it just can’t compare with ‘Don’t Waste Your Life’.

If you read this and it doesn’t change your life then you’re either not saved or dead.

It’s as simple as that!

John Piper’s writing style is a little heavy for me but he has lightened it up enough to make it readable and what he has to say is, in my opinion, essential reading for all Christians.

DON’T WASTE YOUR LIFE!

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OK, so it’s actually a collection of 66 books, each a masterpiece of its own, but they combine to form the one book every person should have.

If you never own (and read) another book. The Bible should be it.

This is a generic review of English translations of the Hebrew and greek texts of the scriptures. I will go on to review various study bibles and different translations at another time.

This is God’s Word to His creation. If you want to know who created you (and why) and if you want to know what he has to say to you then pick up a copy, it’s all there!

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