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Summary: A passionate love story of you and Christ.
Review: I have read The Ragamuffin Gospel 3 times. Not long will go by before I buy yet another copy for another friend. This book tells us that, while we cannot excuse sin, it never changes God's view and stance towards: "He loves us." You will learn how to rest in the Father's love, to be moved to passion by it, and to run headlong into the mysteries and wildness of God's unrelenting mercy.
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Summary: Greatest book on God's grace and unconditional love EVER!!!
Review: I only learned about Brennan Manning and the Ragamuffin Gospel when I heard a tribute tape to Rick Mullins. I got the book as quickly as I could find it, just finished it and am starting over. All the truths of the Gospel are stripped down to "ragamuffin-ese" just the plain truth, the Good News of the Gospel, as Jesus proclaimed it. Thank God for Brennan Manning, I am now proud to be a Ragamuffin.
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Summary: This book earns a top 3 in my all time greatest books list!
Review: Let me just say this: Whether you are Pentecostal, Lutheran, Catholic, Free... it doesn't matter. Manning will offend most of your man-made, religiously held beliefs. He goes to the core of what the gospel is about. We just finished the book in a men's group, and decided to read and study it again!
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Summary: Excellent, a must read for every Christian.
Review: This book has taught me more about accepting Gods grace than any other. I highly urge anyone struggling in this area to check this book out.
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Summary: A barefoot walk through the grass of God's love
Review: This book is a big wet kiss from a God who really cares! If you feel that God is "out to get you" reading this book will prove it...but it may not be like you always believed.
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Summary: Amazing Insights Into God's Gentle and Forgiving Love
Review: Manning is able to communicate in simple yet powerful ways the extreme and excessive love God has for everyone. He gently illustrates God's forgiving love for broken and wounded people by encouraging them to accept God's forgiving promise and to step into His loving embrace. This book is an excellent way to begin/continue your journey as God's child. Manning conveys the power of God's grace by pointing out that God accepts you with all your lumps, bumps, and bruises - not because you are good or strong, but because you believe He can love you in spite of your failures and brokenness. Each page dynamically illuminates the Father's passionate love for His creation while assuring them that His Holy Spirit can empower them to live under the influence and freedom of the Jesus' love. As a pastor I have never read, or experienced a better, practical explanation of the radical power of God's love - except from God's Word itself!
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Summary: An outstanding achievment
Review: From the moment you open Brennan Manning "Ragamuffin Gospel" you are entranced. The late Rich Mullins wrote the forward, with a story that touches any heart-- how Manning changed his life. Right away, you know this book will change you. Manning brings new life to a old subject--understanding how God loved us enough to die for us. We are all "ragamuffins," degenerates, sinners, not worthy of the love of God, right? No! We are sinners and ragamuffins, but because of the blood of Jesus, God sees us as perfect and beautiful. Manning illustrates that in his gentle ability to tell a story, stories that we see ourselves in. And those stories help us understand the unconditional love of God. Manning has an impressive ability to draw you in. The concept of God's grace is sometimes hard for Christians to confront, because it brings forth every weakness and fault we have. And the author has been there. As a former alchoholic, he understands rejection and failure with the best of them. As we read about Manning weakness and the candor with which he speaks of them, our own weaknesses don't seen so difficult to overcome. Manning teaches us how the blood of Jesus covers those weaknesses and God doesn't even see them once He has forgiven us. What a feeling that is! And the author is a master at bringing us to that feeling, a master at drawing you inside yourself to learn more about what is there. For all those that wonder where God is, they will find Him in the pages of this book. And as a ragamuffin myself, I saw a glimpse of who God is.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Brennan Manning has a wonderful way of illustrating the love that God has for people, not just the rich or good looking, but everyone. He has a powerful and sincere way of telling this good news of a God, who is so infinite in his love and grace, that it goes beyond all understanding. Truly, he has a gift. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand the love that God has for them.-- Ryan Sochacki
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Summary: Hope for the Hungry
Review: This work is a powerful testament of a God that loves those that are hopelessly lost and know it. It opens eyes to the fact that the modern evangelical church has lost hold of the very truth of the Gospel: that Jesus is hopelessly in love with the least, the ragamuffins of this world, and that we can all count ourselves among this number
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Summary: Redeemed by God's Grace Alone
Review: The Ragamuffin Gospel is the first Christian book to hit right where my heart needed it... For the majority of my life, I considered myself right in God's Grace without overwhelming shortcomings. Never truly facing unbearable challenges, I could not relate to those who had found God in the depths of despair. Well, that quickly changed when I graduated from college and entered the professional world. I faced challenges in both my job and personal life that threw me into a tailspin, and I felt distanced from God. I felt guilty, overburdened by my own "failings," and consumed by darkness. Wherever I found legalism, it was no longer a camp to join (because I was so "righteous") but what reeked of ignorance about God's Grace. Then a friend recommended this book. I read it with intent and realized, for the first time in three years, that the God I accepted as a child is the God who loves me no matter how far I fall. No, this is not an excuse to keep sinning. Yes, this is an invitation back to the Lord, who loves so unconditionally that we, finite humans, cannot fully grasp it until we reach Glory. As Brennan Manning's book helped lift me from the "ashes," I realize there are others who "beat themselves up" and feel that God is so displeased that His love cannot reach them. Not so with our Glorious Lord. He loves you with NO END! That, my friends, makes me want to fall down at His knees. His love does not waiver with my rights and wrongs; He invites me to His love and grace without reservation. >>Lord, I come back to you, running and with open arms.<< Thank you, Brennan Manning. There is NOTHING I can do to "earn" God's favor. He is smiling because I sense His love, once again. He was always there, even when I didn't feel like He was there. P.S. For all those who over-emphasize a person's "fruit" without the Glorious context of God's Grace, please do consider "walking two moons" in that person's mocassins. Only God knows our hearts, through and through. I'm blessed because He does. There's nothing He doesn't know, yet He loves me unconditionally, forever and ever.
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