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Summary: Easy reading raising challenging questions
Review: Four Souls raises questions and dilemmas all Christians face, whether in the ordinary routine of our daily lives or traveling into places where the church is persecuted. The issues are the same, although perhaps more graphically presented in the jungles of Lesotho or the remote parts of Bangladesh. It is easy reading; a book you can pick up when you have a few spare minutes during the day.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: More than just an exceptional collection of humourous and touching travel stories, this book explores the deep questions of faith, culture and community. The authors invite the reader in, as they process their many varied experiences, and refuse the all-too-easy temptation to arrive at pat answers. Four Souls challenges the reader to seek a life of purpose, to seek God more earnestly, and to expect Him to do far more than even just come through. Reading Four Souls has reignited my passion to combine relationship, ministry and vocation, and to wrestle honestly with what it might look like to really follow Christ. This is a book definitely worthy of gathering a few good friends, a good cup of coffee, and beginning your own epic journey together.
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Summary: An Odyssey With Purpose
Review: When I was a little tyke -- growing up in Portland, Oregon in the 1960s -- I remember riding in the back seat of our old Buick Special station wagon and speaking those four words all parents hate to hear come whining up to the front: "ARE WE THERE YET?" I guess it's hard to have "joy in the journey" when you're five and living Happy Meal to Happy Meal.But while "ARE WE THERE YET?" may be the accepted mantra of car-bound toddlerhood, if we're still droning out those four words as we move into adulthood, we'll never discover that life was meant to be much more than the safe arrival at a series of destinations -- but that as T.S. Eliot said, real life, abundant life, epic life is about "discovering the meaning behind our experiences." In their book "Four Souls", Trey, Matt, Mike and Jedd tell the story of how their "trip around the world" led them to discover some of what they were looking for and all of what they longed for. Are you tired of "self-help" books whose first-person narratives of angst and unearthing leave your soul more bare than it was before turning the first page? Then think about giving "Four Souls" a chance. I have a feeling it just might speak to you the way it's been speaking to me: with clarity, confrontation, and compassion. Coming across a compass while you're lost in the woods would be the find of a lifetime. Gregg Lamm / How blessed are those in whom God lives, whose lives become roads God travels. - Psalm 84:5 / paraphrase
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