I can say with absolute certainty that the sum of the time it took me to write this review and the time it takes you to read it will be less than the amount of time it took me to find the picture that greeted you when you opened my blog. I wasn't happy (and I'm still not) that the cover you're seeing is different from the one I saw all those hours I spent inside this book. Nevertheless, the words inside are the same, and they are some good words indeed.
I love Philip Yancey. I always put him on my list of people I'd like to have lunch with. Philip, if you're reading this, I'm free whenever you are. Anyway, this book is called "Disappointment with G-d: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud" and it was perhaps the most appropriate book for me to have read during this season of my life which can adequately be described as either disappointing or dissatisfactory.
Yancey explores in a encouragingly honest fashion the three questions he claims, correctly, that people don't ask aloud. Is G-d silent? Is G-d unfair? Is G-d hidden? I'm not going to tell you what he has to say about each of those questions, but if it sounds like something you've perhaps asked yourself at some point in your life, then this book is certainly worth your time... especially since it's only 5.99 on Amazon. And if you'd like to see the cover of the book as I saw it, you can just click that link at any time. I didn't want to use the picture with the "Search Inside (TM)" atop it. You understand, right?
A huge chunk of the book is dedicated to study and exploration of the book of Job. Not a bad choice when it comes to discussing disappointment huh? So I suppose I also recommend this book to people who haven't yet fully reconciled the events of Job and made them mesh nicely with their theology.
So again, another not-very-reviewy book review. I think I'll recommend this book to all my friends who graduate from college and a year later find themselves pretty unhappy with where they've ended up. Thanks Jon for such an awesome C-mas present. You know me.
4.13.2007
book review vol. eight
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trying to find someone named Michael who left me a joke? isn't he your friend? .... Really liked the google thing & I got it to work which is amazing for someone approaching 100. Dis w/ God is good. I've been reading like CRAZY lately cause I've been so desperate for God...yesterday I read The Way of the Heart--oohh! And may I respond to your going to China---your presence leaves me with this--you really want to find God and not John 5:37-40 but you want a recaptured heart like in Ezekiel 14:5 and you want a Jonah 2:8 experience that you never forfeit the grace of God that is yours D.O.---that's why I think you will find God in China or on Matt's futon.
so good to see you sunday night! it reminded me of my freshman years, when you were around all the time, and i took it for granted!
this is not my first attempt at commenting on this post....i don't know why i keep trying, it isn't even important what i have said 2 or 3 times now.
just that i wish i could read as quickly as my list of books to read grows. dangit i'm lazy...too lazy to get my hands on good books and then sometimes once i've gone to the trouble of doing that, too lazy to read the book...lame
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