Post Christian

   Every once in while the people of God need to read books like this to see what we need to be doing. 

   We need to know the spiritual needs of the present generation. We need to practice discipleship. We need to reach our world one person at a time for Jesus Christ.

   Post Christian is written by a nerd for the general public. It is not a handbook for the selected few. Everyone needs to read it. Piatt even quotes Austin Power’s father who is not in any way to be considered Christian. And Powers is definitely a nerd.

   As people in this Post Christian world we need to find that dream upon which we can hang our hopes and rest. We have to orientate ourselves to a way without the benefits of seeing the destination in the distance.

   Abraham in the book of Genesis did so and was rewarded.

   We need to show people how to make the leap to faith required, trusting that in doing so we will find God in the process, Piatt suggests.

   It is also pointed out what truth is not. In fact, Piatt records, truth is not propositional. It can’t be encapsulated in an argument or justified with force.

   Truth is seen in a life style.

   Just what is the way to reach the Post Christian world? This book in seventeen chapters explores that question. A person may have to leave themselves vulnerable. But that may be what the Post Christian world is looking for.

  It is published by Jericho Books and retails for $20.00

The Great Good Thing by Andrew Klavan

    Andrew Klavan is a name known in the literary world in the realm of crime fiction. He is prolific and best known for True Crime among many other works. His work uses at least one character who is a Christian in a major role.

    He did not start out life with that viewpoint. In fact he was not even interested in that area.

His childhood was far from what we would see as religious. His parents were only Jewish in name and agnostic even atheist in practice.

    His early childhood was spent in his mind in stories he made up. No one really knew. Education wise he was able to bluff his way through school. He never read the required books assigned but was able to bluff his way to good grades.

    He had Christian influences as he grew from childhood to adolescence. He knew about the Bible but it was just a book to him that contained great plot ideas.

    But he was intellectual and had to read through the book for himself.  

    This is a memoir that starts at age sixty when he is being baptized than backtracks to carry the story forward from birth to the baptism. It has great fiction technique. You can see he has great command of language. It is an easy read.

    This book was sent to me free from booklookbloggers.com for the purpose of review. I recommend this as a book to be shared with seekers. It is a good evangelistic tool.

When God Calls by Robert Shipp

   This is a self published book. There is nothing wrong with self publishing when you have a story to tell the nation.  

   It is the story of a young man who grew up in Venice, California in the Hood. In order to survive he had to become a gang member and later leader. His gang was the Venice Shoreline Crips.

   God had a plan for him and it was not to stay in the hood and become the bad dude of Venice. It was to become a Child of His and to be a minister, helping others to become followers of Jesus.

   The writing is erratic and the transitions are poor. This is to be expected of a first book. Shipp has a story to tell with a large panorama and his writing is urgent. The sense I get is that he feels the time is short and the message must be proclaimed.

   He knew the right things to do and how to blend with church people. He could adapt. And one day he heard the way to be rightly related to God. He became a Christian.

   But he still had to make the choice of how he wanted to live. Life didn’t suddenly become easy.

   Shipp moves from the past to the present in the telling of the story. He wants the world to know that he has changed and how they also can be changed.

   This book is a gripping book and it does not sugar coat the struggle.

   I would recommend this book which can be purchased on line. Amazon has it for Kindles also.

The Unertaker's Wife by Dee Oliver

 

A delightful book on a subject most of us deny will happen but it does to us all. The subject is death.

It is not morbid. It is very cheerful and instructive.

Dee fell in love with Johnnie who happened to be a fourth generation funeral director. On her first date they stopped to pick up a body to transport to the mortuary.

They got married and had children and twenty years later he died of a stroke. She had to pick up her life. She decided to go into the family business of funeral director.

She returned to school and got her degree. The family business didn’t want her so she had to do her internship with the colored undertaker in another part of town. This being the South it was a first.

She proved to be a survivor.

In the last part of the book she gives some helpful advice to those of us who need to plain for the event.

I found the story to flow nicely and the information to be easy to digest.

The publisher is Zondervan and the gospel is presented in a harmless and non-evasive manner through the memorial service.

I would recommend this book for all lovers of romance. Also for those who need to be reminded what to leave behind in instructions and help.

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All views expressed are those of the reviewer and do not reflect those of the publisher.

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The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

Speak by Nish Weiscth

                                                              

     This book is a must read for those of us who say we have no story to tell.  Weiseth would disagree with you. We all have a story to tell.

        Just what is story?  When the term is used it means the sharing of one’s life experiences with another. Pure and simple. There is nothing to be scared about. But for most of us we don’t do this.

        We have to ask ourselves what part of the person’s story do I need to know to understand what he or she is telling me right now?

        A story tends to be powerful.  They can be indentified with.

        If we want to reach the generations we need to connect with them on their level. And listening to what the story conveys is part of the experience.

        Weiseth is a millennial which she defines as the generation over educated and underemployed. That definition fits all generations from the baby boomers to the present. Yet in the story is the line to connection. Unless we listen to the story we will not understand completely what the problem is or the solution.

This book is an eye opener and a call to communication. This book gives a person hope for the millennial generation of believers. They are just communicating on a different level than the generations that went before them.

        I would recommend this book for people who are looking for a way to communicate with their peers.

        I received this book gratis from Booklook bloggers and was not required to give a positive review. Any view expressed are those of the reviewer and not the publisher.