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Summary: Recapturing the Joy of Childlike Faith
Review: This book has been a celebration to my soul. It has led me back to the joy I first experienced as a new believer in Jesus Christ. Dangerous Wonder shares examples of how it feels to be like a child in God's presence. It's great for sermon illustrations, bible study discussions, and youth groups!
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Summary: Powerful Illustrations
Review: This book is an amazing guide for living with Christ as your friend. The power of the book for me though came in the detailed illustrations Mike used. He made all of his ideas come to life and seem atainable through heartfelt stories from his past. I strongly recommend this book to anyone looking for a friend in God and anyone who can feel their inner-child still longing to come out and play.
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Summary: want to build a sandcastle?
Review: This book is truely amazing. I read it in three sittings, desperately trying to squeeze in a few more pages when supposed to be working! It left me crying out for more as I reluctantly finished. Yaconelli has a genuine gift in story-telling and illustrates his thoughts with heartwarming tales. Some stories are hilarious, others sad, but you can't help but be moved by these pictures of the simplicity of God's love for undeserving scum like us. Theologically it's sound. The beauty of Dangerous Wonder is the style in which Yaconelli writes - continually finding God in everyday occurances, in creation, in children. This book reawakened my senses to the youthful idealism and energy of childhood, which although I have never lost, is constantly under seige from the dullness of life and the daily routine. Thank you Mike, I feel recharged again, ready to build more sandcastles and enjoy coloring! Never lose the wonder.
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Summary: I'm ready to Jump first and Fear later.
Review: This book really helps us to see all of the rules and regulations that did not stop us or get in the way as kids. It also helps us to see and hear what God is like without our adult tinted sunglasses on. This book has a lot of great stories that do a wonderful job of illustrating Michael's points. If any of you remember liking Steve Camp's Song "Living Dangerously" you will really like this book.
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Summary: This book simply does not hold true to it's own direction.
Review: This book simply does not hold true to it's own direction. Wandering on and off points, in and out of thoughts, many never finished and some making me understand his own story of a girl who during his sermons would often ask "Mike, what the heck are you talking about?"
This book could be summarized in 10 to 30 short pages, 90% of what belongs to the promises of the title, forwards and publishers summary are in the first and last chapters.
More an assembly of parts of his sermons than a book. As if years of sermons where quickly gutted, remaining parts, related or not loosely reassembled into often missed attempts at a single theme.
Beginning with his definition of "Dream Stealers" and that the bible has a name for them "Pharisees", the author is often critically judgemental and one sided. His seemingly self imposed (unjustified) authority, arogantly interprets what people including Christ mean by what they said. What little explanation he provides is often a huge stretch even applied to a subjective standard.
Spiritually or monetarily, not valuless but not a value.
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Summary: This Book Changed My Life
Review: This book was recommended to me by a close friend and spiritual mentor. It was the most thrilling book to read. Every time I finished a chapter I could feel my heart swell up with the joy of knowing that God is as fresh and exciting and controversial today as he was the day Christ preached to thousands on a mountanside in Galilee. Read this book. Please read this book. God has something wonderful to tell you.
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Summary: Life Changing
Review: This book, is truly life changing. It allows you to view the world in another way. After you read this book your faith and your life will be transformed. It is really inspirational.
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Summary: I cried again...
Review: This is a beautiful book. I have read both of Yaconelli's books, this one and "Messy Spirituality" and he moves me more than any other contemporary author writing in this field. I got choked up over and over again. We desparately need more books by Mike. This book will inspire you to live your ordinary life in a whole new way, and to see God's work in your life today, not someday when you "have it all together." Similar to Philip Yancey, he'll really move you out of your seat!
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Summary: I want you to rediscover your passion for living again.
Review: This is a dangerous book. It is a book that calls you to abandon your busy-ness, extricate yourself from a boring an dull life and make a run for the wild, unpredictable Jesus. This is not a prescription book but a story book meant to help you stop "impersonating yourself" and get in touch with those childlike attributes you have almost forgotten: risky curiosity, wild abandon, daring playfulness, irresponsible passion and naive grace. I hope you will find your tears again ... the tears of your longing for a life that is unpredictable, wild and full of joy. I hope you will read this book and learn how to play again. More than anything else, I hope you will meet the terrifying jesus who will "ruin" your life so you have no where else to run ... except into his arms.
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Summary: Find God through beginning/renewing a Childlike Faith
Review: Through his Youth Specialties publications, previous work in THE DOOR magazine, and other writings, Mike Yaconelli has always tackled issues in very fresh, non-conventional ways. His willingness to challenge us to see things differently has enabled me to continue to believe that God is worth pursuing, even when most Christians were unknowingly persuading me otherwise. The same holds true here in this incredibly powerful book. If you are tired of hearing the same cliches and thoughtless pragmatism of most current Christian authors (such as "5 Easy Steps to a Happy, Spirit-Filled Life"), let Mike help you rediscover the true nature of what Christianity is intended to be. Mike highlights the importance of doubt, questions, wonder, mystery, passion, honesty, and "wild abandon" to God... themes that are seldom spoken of in Christian circles today but are in desperate need of inclusion. Christians who may have become stale (and boring) in their persuit of God can rediscover the joy and wonder of what drew them to Christ in the first place. And for new or potential Christians who may not be corrupted yet by the current version of happy, quick-fix, Americanized Christianity, here's a chance for you to start on the right foot. Skip the fluffy stuff. Yac is back.
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