BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Story, Recapture the Mystery

Friday, October 20, 2006

Story, Recapture the Mystery

Next Spring we hope to publish the Dutch translation of Story, Recapture the Mystery - a great book written by Steven James. Story is 'a poetic retelling of the redemption story for a postmodern audience' - as one of the customer reviews at Amazon aptly describes. Another reviewer is also 'spot on':

When you string enough wasted moments together, you get a wasted life. I don't think there are too many followers of Jesus around anymore. There are plenty of churchgoing admirers, but most of us would rather not leave our nets behind and follow him. Instead we prefer dragging the nets onshore with us so we can have the best of both worlds. Believe the story and you'll finally enter it for yourself.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Daar zie ik naar uit....; 10/20/2006 1:17 pm
Anonymous said...: Ik was dus de vorige commentator; 10/20/2006 1:18 pm
Paul said...: Mooi zo! Ik ben overigens ook achter het boek van Gempf aan het jagen... Natuurlijk moeten we het eerst lezen, maar het lijkt me veelbelovend. Groeten!; 10/20/2006 4:02 pm

God loves us

Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

Max Lucado - He Chose the Nails

Sadhu Sundar Singh

I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

Oswald Chambers

In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)