The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God

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Summary: God's perspective on my life
Review: I heard about this book on my local Christian radio station. At the time, my husband had left me and I was feeling a lot lost, insecure and confused. This book showed me a different and more healthy way to look at my situation. This was God's situation, not mine. It pulled me out of my small story and helped me to rest in him while He handled the events in my story. It's wonderful. I am recommending it to everyone who is struggling with loss or doubts in their life.

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Summary: The Sacred Romance
Review: This book ruined my life, in a good way. It met me right where my needs were. I have bought probably 20 copies of this book to give to my friends. Everyone who has read it has said that it seems like it written directly to them. By far the best book I've ever read.

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Summary: Well worth your time.
Review: I have read many a book with a first chapter that would catch my attention, or pique my interest. I have never read a first chapter that had me sobbing on my bed over things long forgotten - actually, long pushed away. Blindsided, now I understand that word. This is a good book, friend. I don't know if you'll be sobbing after the first chapter, but I do know it will be worth your time to read it. I helped me very much. I recommend it, and give it to others.

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Summary: Beyond excellent!
Review: By drawing upon many other literary works of great thinkers, the authors have presented many universally pondered life-questions in an incredibly romantic way. This logically sound, well written book has illuminated God's purpose for all of creation and all of the good and bad in it. If you've ever wondered why God could allow so much injustice in the world, or how a great God could ever really care about you, or why so much of the best life has to offer falls short of true completeness - read this book. This is the first book I've ever felt compelled to write a "review" about. I read it three weeks ago and still am excited about it. I am now buying 7 more to give for Christmas presents. Any thinker, Christian or not, should enjoy this work.

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Summary: THE SACRED Romance,Don,t miss this one!
Review: This week I hit my 68th birthday! In all my years of reading I can probably count on both hands the books that have gotten to the point of how we can really know God in a deep heart knowing way. This book hits the mark, and I can,t stop sending it to friends,rereading it, and just actually memorizing parts of it!

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Summary: Working out their angst without power to change.
Review: The authors seem to be in a Romans 7 spiral, downward, without the promise of the power of Romans 8 to change, heal, forgive or forget. Without much actual biblical thinking, and with an amazing number of secular and 'thoughtful' refrerences, I end where I began- with no hope for healing. Yet both authors are excellent story tellers and openly honest about their own struggle. The only two examples of people who succeeded in the Sacred Romance end with their spouses' deaths from cancer... That's romance? Instead, read Pilgrim's Progress.

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Summary: Spoke to my heart about how God sees me...refreshing!
Review: This book, from start to finish, took me on a journey into the nature of the heart of God where I saw, in some ways for the first time, just how God sees me and His passionate love for me. In the past I have focused so much on human love yet as I turned each page in this book I began to see how our Creator designed love from the beginning. He is our pursuer and His love is, indeed, wild because He did the impossible to bring us to Himself. Quite a moving book and very eloquently written. I recommend it to anyone who's ever longed for the kind of love that will never go away from someone who's pursued us from farther away than space and longer ago than time.

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Summary: God is so much more than we think he is....!!!!
Review: This book was step one in God revealing more to me of his nature and correcting many of my errant thoughts about the "whys" of this life. If you dare to read this book and have your assumptions challenged, then you must also read "The Divine Romance" by Gene Edwards to appreciate the full impact of what is contained in these pages. I passionately recommend this to any Christian who desires more from God. Such were some of you!!!

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Summary: Awakening to mystery...
Review: Before I had finished the first few pages I was saying, "this is me...it's exactly how I feel". One usually knows when deep truth has been spoken, and it is spoken with beauty and excellence in The Sacred Romance from beginning to end. The authors expose our deepest longings and fears, then apply a biblical understanding that is both healing and challenging. Our Father is revealed in facets all but lost in modern Christendom. I was enchanted. Read this book and awaken to mystery, for "the life of the heart is a place of great mystery". Amen.

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Summary: A treasure! Spurs healing in relationship to God
Review: If you have felt harmed by God, or are unsure if He is trustworthy, this is the book for you. In story-telling fashion, Brent Curtis and John Eldredge create a picture of the God who walks alongside you and woos you to Himself at every turn.