Rating: 
Summary: How refreshing!!
Review: I bought this book as a result of hearing the Ludy's testimony on Focus on the Family. What a refreshing new way to look at how to spend the years before you find "the one"! I was totally enthralled with this book and it's message. I believe these principles to be God-honoring. I recommend this book to anyone who is waiting for Mr./Mrs. Right to show up.
Rating:
Summary: Real Love
Review: Being an adolesant as I am, I am expected to date around and spend my young years having fun with guys. But that is not what life is about. It is not about wasting my time trying to fill the void with guys. I am truly devoted to searching for a deeper relationship with God. I have dated one person in my short life, and with that 2 month relationship came feelings of confusion and thoughts like, " do I really like him?", " Does he like me?". Now maybe some of you may like that kind of thing but I have better things to do with my time. Like living for the God of the universe, the most important thing in my life. The love that God has for us is so great that he wants to bless us and be involved in every aspect of our life, especially our love life. If we let him do this he will create an unimaginably great story for our life. That is what this book has helped me realize. Even though I am extremely young, this book has gotten through to me. And because of that, I have decided to cease dating and to let God lead me to my future husband. I hope you use this book to influence you and to trust God with your love life despite what SOME people may say.
Rating:
Summary: A Perfect Romance
Review: When God Writes Your Love Story was a beautifully written account of how to exactly approach a relationship in today's society. It was amazing how Eric and Leslie Ludy were able to make the whole world of love seem so simple and easy to grasp. All a person has to do is learn to love Jesus with all of their heart, with all of their soul, and with all of their mind and they too can experience the sweeter song of love. Reading this book left me with the confidence that I too can experience true love and it helped give me the patience to wait for God's timing. The tale was beautifully written. Truly a work of God.
Rating:
Summary: My Love Story is a Best Seller!
Review: Well, everyone of my friends in college was reading this book, and when the guy I liked asked me out, they gave it to me. Now, I was a little uneasy thinking that this would be some sort of rulebook for a Christian relationship, but I was wrong. Not only did I find the book extremely interesting, but it was insightful as well. I bought the book for the guy I'm dating and we're reading it together. We want to keep a Christ-centered relationship, and this book is a motivator and example to why we want to keep Christ as our main focus. I'm sure this book can help anyone, no matter their past, present, or soon-to-be relationships.
Rating:
Summary: supercalifragilisticexpealidosis
Review: I purchased the book for my son and read it before giving it to him. It portrayed how to set your values and how to live the life to meet the goals you want for your marriage. It would really make a difference in this world if all single people read this book and followed it.
Rating:
Summary: A Solid, Balanced Approach
Review: Subtitled "The Ultimate Approach To Guy/Girl Relationships," WHEN GOD WRITES YOUR LOVE STORY has some big expectations to fill. Remarkably, Eric and Leslie Ludy's work actually stands up well to them.What the Ludy's have laid out is really more of a philosophy on living that, when applied correctly, encompasses your approach to dating and relationships. WHEN GOD WRITES YOUR LOVE STORY is not about rules. As chapter four nicely explains, rules don't ultimately save you from temptation and making wrong choices. Only a full love-relationship with God can do that, and it is that exact thing that the Ludy's set as the foundation for their approach. Sounds basic and obvious, but when you see how many people are stuck in the cycle of bad relationships based upon sensual passion, physical attraction, or legalistic rulemaking it becomes clear that this approach is anything but basic. In fact, it's quite radical. WHEN GOD WRITES YOUR LOVE STORY, then, is about giving God the "pen," of your life -- your entire life, not just your love life. The Ludy's do a fantastic job of describing why this matters, how it makes a difference, and what a life married to this choice will look like. Their writing is God-centered yet practical and very balanced. I'll say that again, because it's important -- their approach is extremely balanced, and that's what I admire most about it. The only complaint I have is that some of the dialogue in the book is a bit goofy (they use exclamation points a lot!), but because the substance of the book was so solid I was able to look past that. If you are looking for a book that will help you not only make right dating choices but transform you entire lifestyle so that you end up in a truly happy, fulfilling and lasting marriage then WHEN GOD WRITES YOUR LOVE STORY is for you. Is it the "ultimate" approach? If not then it's sure close. It is one of the three best books on the subject that I have read (the others being BOY MEETS GIRL and BOUNDARIES IN DATING). Read all three if you can. I give it FIVE STARS.
Rating: 
Summary: Give away free choice for a dime. Or the price of this book.
Review: Quote from the book:
"And, more than that, He [God] wanted to write my love story for me...without my help!" p58
Since when are human beings supposed to halt all living and simply wait for God to work out their lives for them? If the authors can go so far as to apply this warped concept to dating, why not further? Why don't we all just sit around and wait for God to do our dishes, clean up our mess, raise out children, love our spouse for us, and pick out our shoes? Where does this concept of letting God do things for us come from? Quote: "...loneliness is a gift from God" p126
Please tell me how exactly loneliness is a gift. Certainly we all grow during hard times, but the hard times are not "gifts", they are _hard times_. The type of attitude expressed in this book is basically giving a nice pat answer to people who are in real suffering and need to be understood. This book is written poorly with cliches gracing nearly every page and a significant number of generalizations are made based on the authors own experience. The book was obviously not carefully planned as it contains a great deal of contradictions. There are certainly many good points made in this book, but for myself the faults are too far away from truth to excuse. For these reasons I would find it very hard, if not impossible, to recommend this book to others.
Rating: 
Summary: Radical Approach to Love
Review: I bought this book thinking that it might help me discover the path that God has mapped out for my life. Instead, I was made to feel judged, dirty, cheap and beyond redemption. I found this book to be way too far right, coalitionist for me and not practical for everyone. Younger singles, under 25, may gain insight from this book but older singles should steer clear of it. I found the other book I ordered at the same time by Michelle McKinney Hammond, "What To Do Until Love Finds You: Getting Ready For Mr. Right", much more practical and much less judgemental.
Rating:
Summary: WAIT 4 'EM
Review: I got out of bad relationship and found this book very helpful. It showed that waiting was cool and life rewarding.I loved their stories of falling in love that they used for examples and their friends stories also. If your in a relationship or not this gives you idea of what God wants for you and give Him a chance to write it!!
Rating:
Summary: IN LOVE!
Review: I am totally "in love" with this book. It's words speak such truth to me and my generation; Jesus Christ is, or should be, our first love. There was not a chapter that went by that I did not see a part of myself in it. Eric and Leslie, as well as myself, are living proof that when you delight yourself in Him, He will give you the desires of your heart. My little sister will be the next one to read this book and I'm mailing a copy to my roommate. Enjoy, this one is one of a kind.
|
