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Summary: Jabez, Jabez, Jabez!
Review: Dorothy clicks her magic shoes together, chants "There's no place like home, there's no place like home", and arrives safely back in Kansas and reality. So too, Douglas Jones in "The Mantra of Jabez" works his parody magic and brings us all back safely home to the real world.The book was written as a response to "The Prayer of Jabez" by Bruce Wilkinson; and offers us comic relief and common sense. Some will cry foul. Jones's insightful humor can be biting but it's fair--and funny. I laughed hard. I thought hard. Wilkinson would have us follow the yellow-brick-road to the Wizard of Oz. Jones would prefer we stay in the root cellar and enjoy his book "The Mantra of Jabez."
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Summary: Jabez, Jabez, Jabez!
Review: Dorothy clicks her magic shoes together, chants "There's no place like home, there's no place like home", and arrives safely back in Kansas and reality. So too, Douglas Jones in "The Mantra of Jabez" works his parody magic and brings us all back safely home to the real world. The book was written as a response to "The Prayer of Jabez" by Bruce Wilkinson; and offers us comic relief and common sense. Some will cry foul. Jones's insightful humor can be biting but it's fair--and funny. I laughed hard. I thought hard. Wilkinson would have us follow the yellow-brick-road to the Wizard of Oz. Jones would prefer we stay in the root cellar and enjoy his book "The Mantra of Jabez."
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Summary: Good parody, terrific critique
Review: I believe the best thing about Doug Jones' work here is not the hilarity of his parody, but the soundness of his critique. Having read Prayer of Jabez a while back, a lot of the more pointed jabs elicited guffaws from me. The satire really is good. But what I really liked about this book - particularly in contrast with Nathan Wilson's parody, Right Behind - is that Mr. Jones really showed quite powerfully exactly what was wrong with Wilkinson's position, and I thought he offered a brief but substantial explanation throughout of better ways to view things. He wasn't just making fun of the book; he was also offering a replacement. So in short: good parody, but the critique of modern evangelicalism was the real gem. Gives a short, concise summary of some of the problems in the church today, and offers a glimpse of some of the solutions. Swell book.
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I bought this book on Friday (it's Monday) and received it today. I read it in about 20 minutes, and my neck hurt because I was laughing so hard. The author is RIGHT ON about the Prayer of Jabez and all its reprocussions. I especially loved the bit about gnosticism. If you're evangelical and want all the problems with Jabez pointed out to you (e.g. you want to know the truth), purcahse this book.
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Summary: Such a little book, such a great laugh - and true too!
Review: I can't stop reading this book and laughing. Anytime I am disappointed by the shallow faith of self-centered Christians, I pick up this little book of truth and wit.
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Summary: Keep Sane
Review: Reading this parody is a way for me to keep sane, by laughing at the insanity of the other book. I really enjoyed reading this. I know of many folks who have read the Prayer of Jabez, this parody makes you sit up and take notice of what is really going on.
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Summary: awful
Review: some people have way too much time on their hands... the Prayer of Jabez is an awesome book. James 4:2
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Summary: Great stuff, Great paradoy----It's a joke son
Review: The mantra takes a good and needed poke at the "prayer". There will be so many who don't understand satire. The book addresses problems with the "prayer". I kept waiting for the mantra to explain how it all works in the framework of vain and repetitious prayers. Too bad many Christians don't have a sense of humor.
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Summary: I've got the station wagon backed up God, now fill it up !
Review: The title rings of the jubilation my brother had after reading the book. Yes, both he and I are convinced beyond a doubt that it's time to quit our jobs and wait for the second coming while teaching others sentences. All because of this wonderful little book. Part of our problem was that we weren't blessed with the shallow arminian upbringing that inspires fit bodies and flabby minds. Instead, we grew up orthodox, then as teens found ourselves attracted to reformed thinking. Fortunately, this book has turned the table on God, giving us the formula to compel Him to give us the gifts He wanted us to have in the first place. The only thing that could have made this parody even funnier was to incorporate some infomercial-type-techniques. Oh well, you can't have everything. Oh wait, what am I saying, I suppose I could if I could just remember how that mantra goes. Now the only thing left to do is to convince our Lord to let my brother and I to sit at the right and left hand when we get to His Kingdom.
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Summary: Such a little book, such a great laugh - and true too!
Review: This book is hillarious. It sheds truth upon what the Prayer of Jabez is, a selfish prayer. Highly recomended, and for those who believe the prayer of Jabez as good, go pray the LORD'S PRAYER. How then we are to pray? selfless. It's it's like Harry Potter for Evangelicals!!!!!!
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