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Summary: Living with Yourself and Loving it!
Review: In a world where pain of any kind is medicated, John Eldredge invites us to enter our pain and discover our healing. All too often we surround ourselves with fantasies or illusions that help us cope with the way we feel about ourselves. Ernest Becker in his book Angels in Armor described this as the human need to protect oneself by hiding behind some external covering. Dr. Paul Tournier called it our persona in The Meaning of Persons. John Eldredge helps people walk into their hurt with the help of God and to discover that they are in fact being led by God to bring healing to the wound in their history that has encouaged a false life. John uses wonderful illustrations from his own life as a father and as a husband to convey his point. I could see myself having my own "affair with my work" which kept him from his wife. I know the experience of listening to the "traitor" within me who sabotages my hope and joy as he also shared. The way out of our false self, our hiding, our habits of self destructiveness are also clear. The problem, like Luke Skywalker's in the cave on Datouin, is with our father. But he points out how God comes into this wound caused by our father and becomes the healing Father for us. This is a book for men to discover their true life in a way that they have never seen it before. This is a book for women to see the kind of reasons why their men live a life of "quiet desperation." It also reveals some of the elements behind a woman's desperation that are not so different from a man's. Here is book to share, to read together and to reread again. Here is a book that can be the birthing place for the true person you never thought you could be. This is your "Star Trek" where God is waiting to guide you where you have never gone before and to discover the power in being a man, fully alive, fully human.
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Summary: Finally, someone understands
Review: I just completed this incredible book that has opened my eyes to what was wrong, and what was missing in my life. His understanding of male and female is well rooted in the Genesis creation account and from it he pulls incredible truths about who we are meant to be as men. This well written and well reasoned book hits at the core of the woundedness of the male soul. He identifies the problem, and gives some solutions. While writing as a Christian he avoids the pitfalls of so many other Christian books that simply tell us to "repent" and "do better." He goes into the core of where the wound comes from and points us back to our loving Father--from whom all male-ness gets it image.I strongly recommend this book to all men whether single or married! It will change your life. Women would also benefit from reading this book--especially mothers!!
Way to go John Eldridge--you hit the nail on the head!! Thank you!!
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Summary: Identifies problem; misses true cause and solution
Review: Eldredge has identified a problem (weakened manhood), but he's missed the CAUSE of the problem, and he never gives the true SOLUTION to the problem. Psychologists/psychiatrists do this all the time. Anyone with a Christian world view who reads this book should immediately recognize some fallacies that need to be addressed. First, it is not SOCIETY that has emasculated men...it is their own SIN. When we do not choose God's way, what do we expect? Second, the solution to becoming real and "dangerous" men and women of God is to immerse ourselves in His Word and His presence, to lay down our own wills. To REPENT. To OBEY. To DARE to trust Him. Remember, His is an upside-down kingdom.
What makes a person "dangerous" in the world's eyes? A lover of TRUTH! People have always been afraid of a man who does not compromise. They see such people as a threat. Jesus is that truth. He is the way. His word is the final authority. When we compromise and let relativism rule, we can expect to become emasculated; we have sentenced ourselves to mediocrity and frustration. Who wants to have a "FORM of godliness, denying the POWER thereof"? Not I.
Eldredge effectively stirs his readers to passion and purpose, but in the end, he leaves them without the true resources to accomplish that passionate lifestyle with their Savior.
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Summary: Beware of "so called experts" (Book critics)
Review: As others have pointed out regarding "professional book critics"
Just a quick parallel. Have you ever seen a movie that the critics denounced, yet thoroughly enjoyed it? This book helped me understand a part of being a good adventurous Christian man without being reckless. If this book is right for you, or if you even get one or two good points out of it. Be prayerful regarding it's message, thank God for the wisdom and recognize that as a man, you are moving in a positive direction. God Bless!
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Summary: Inspiring and Provoking
Review: John Eldredge has written the most profound book on explaining the heart of a man. His book touched me in that I found someone who has expressed so clearly the thoughts and feelings that most men have not been able to express. I began reading this on an airplane, and didn't want the plane to land to give me more time to read. This is a book that not only is inspirational for men, but a book that wives and mothers should read about the men in their lives. Eldredge's book set me on fire and encouraged me in a way that no book that I have read recently has been able to do. Once you've found your heart in the way that this book describes, your in for a life-changing experience. You can't read this book without experiencing an impact beyond description.
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Summary: Jesus was a bully
Review: Thanks to John Eldrege's Wild at Heart I finally understand that my hot-headed temperament fits perfectly in the Christian scheme. I now realize that those who accused me of being egotistical and constantly belittling others were, in fact, just out of touch with biblical truths. Christian men are too loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, gentlle, good, meek and - heaven help us - promise keepers. Not Jesus. He was a tough guy, obnoxious, rude and, quite frankly, a bully. Step aside, nice guys. The REAL Christ-like men are here.
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Summary: Rediscovering lost heart
Review: I love this book so much. It's very rare for me to find a book that can stop me in the middle of the page. John provided rich insight that made me think. His book changed the way I see myself. The content of this book is biblically true. I am planning to read it one more time. I recommended this book to many of my friends. It's a must read book for young men like myself.
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Summary: The Heart of God
Review: I want begin by saying this book (other than the Bible) has been the most helpful and insightful books that I have ever read. God has used it to truly take another leap in my Christian walk. Please note that Mr. Eldrege is an artistic person, like many of us are, including myself. He uses words to promote emotion and clearity. I have since read other books of his, they are also remarkable...
In this book Eldrege compares William Wallace to Jesus. He does not do anything out of context. He wants us to see the value to men that he had to offer. William Wallace died fighting for the freedom of his countrymen, he went against the flow in every way. Sound like someone you know? Or for some of you; heard of?
This is a great book to say in the least. I recommend it to anyone who wants to live life to its fullest.
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Summary: Greatest Book
Review: I never read books, but when I read the first chapter I could not stop reading. It has changed my life greatly. I'll recommend this book to all my friends and coworkers. WITH GOD'S LOVE
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Summary: Entertaining read
Review: I'm know I'm going to get hammered by a lot of people for this review, being so popular and all. Almost all the guys I know really love this book and it's catching on like wildfire amongst the females also. There are lots of reasons, not all of which I agree with, why females read it. I can generally say I agree with most of his principles, but there are some GLARING statements that wanted to make me throw the book across the room. In one section, the author makes a point that God is mysterious and has a "wild" side to Him, and b/c of this fact, it is okay for us men to be "wild at heart." The one statement that bothered me most and almost made me discredit everything he said was when he said that perhaps theologians over the past centuries have missed the point, because God is "wild." What? Calvin, Edwards, Augustine, Barth... I guess all these men were all missing the point? This connection is most disturbing and I see that the author makes a lot of points for presentation purposes, without hardly any Biblical evidence supporting his views... mind you, I would agree with most of it, but to make the Biblical connections as he does is shady. This book is an perfect example of style over substance. The reason why I gave it 3 starts instead of 1 was because most of points are agreeable, but they can easily be abused. And oh... that picture of the guy on the cover jumping from cliff to cliff with a backpack? Uhhh... that's not me. I would much rather play tackle football or basketball until the wee hours of the morning. All in all, though, Wild at Heart was an entertaining read. I can say that this is a Christian version of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. However, if you want Biblical substance for becoming a man of excellenc, I suggest reading any book from Douglas Wilson or Dallas Willard.
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