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Summary: Extremely good!
Review: This is a book that will truely captivate you. John Eldrege really knows what he's talkin' about. It is a good book for both women and men to read. Women, to understand men, and men, to know what their really about.
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Summary: Very Spiritual
Review: This book is for enlightened people looking for insights into men who are Christians, and is excellent for that. Very worthwhile.
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Summary: Explains a common cause of Deperssion and/or Prefectionisam
Review: The Theme of this book is christain men are bore, because they are choosing to live "safty" Living in a environment that is easily control and predictable, doesn't test their abilites, The problem is not how God has designed them,They are design to take risks, just as their creator does, which they are made in the image of.
they typical respond in one of two ways:
1)be passive(deperssion?): They see themselfs as weak and powerless and avoid the unknow.
2)over achivers(Prefectionisam): These people don't want to take risks, but instead of being passive, they set out to do things that they KNOW what the outcome will be, and they become prefectionists at what they do.Either way they are avoiding the unkown and don't test their abilites(so how do you know WHAT you CAN DO?) The Feminists don't like this book cause it's stated that women are the personification of God's beauty, mercy and tenderness, oh well....
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Summary: Something so strong that it inspired Kitna to scramble....
Review: Hey, anything that has helped put the Bengals in playoff contention CAN'T be bad. "For me, there was a big turning point right before the Cleveland game (Sept. 28)," Kitna said. "It was a matter of me dealing with some of the demons in my past, and dealing with them in a godly matter. Before that game, I didn't really feel like I was seeing the field very well, and since that moment, I feel like I've been seeing the football field as good as I've seen it in a long time." At some point before the Cleveland game, which turned out to be the Bengals' first triumph of the season, a friend recommended a Christian self-help book called "Wild at Heart." It turned out to be just what Kitna was looking for, especially with the Seattle game on the horizon. "It talks about how you have to deal with the people and the things that have hurt you in the past," Kitna said. "The reality is, as much as I had forgiven Coach Holmgren, he had taken something away from me as far as the kind of player that I am. I didn't realize it until right before the Cleveland game that part of me had been taken away and been suppressed for three years now. Ever since then, it's been totally different. It feels like the irons have been lifted off my arms."
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Summary: Missing the point
Review: I feel that many readers of this book have missed the point. Eldredge has landed on a 'lost aspect' of man. He understands that a man is made a certain way. This man's image has been marred by many things, least of all his own upbringing and all the relational issues of youth. I don't believe that he is advocating unholiness nor is he trying to encourage a new form of chauvenism. He is trying to enable readers to understand that perhaps some of the things men do are not what they should be doing. As a result they are inneffective to God, themselves and their spouses. If they were able just to cast aside the facade that has been placed over them or that they have built themselves, they would find out who they really are and what they are truly called to do. They then would be able to see the road that they should take, fight effectively in the spiritual realm and begin to win the battle that they have been called to do: pursue God's passions. When we walk in the light and presence of the Father, do we not find that He changes us, effects our passions and spurs us into doing things that perhaps we would not have previously considered? I think that the Holy Spirit has inspired John to write this book and have found it personally inspiring to live a life that is pleasing to Him, to go on an adventure with Him (rather than put my trust in the safe / risk-free existence that this world would advocate is the way) - through understanding the story of my uniqueness in Christ. People who found fault with the general gist of this book have really missed the point: "I have come that you may have life and life in all it's fullness..."
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Summary: Completely misses the point
Review: Be careful how you respond to these one-star thoughtful critiques; not all of them are from feminists let alone females. In this book Eldredge uses scripture completely out of context, and claims to know how God made man based on his own feelings and experiences. Claiming that all men have those 'three desires' (battle, adventure, a beauty), he goes as far to say these desires are from God. Among the many examples, we read of Eldredge downplaying many of the jobs men hold, advocating his son to punch another kid, and proving masculinity through bad exegesis. If any good comes out of it, it's that men ARE bored in the church. But that's because they fail to answer the true (and extremely difficult) call of God - to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God. Don't be misled by this book - instead do what you know the spirit has called all of us to do. If there were more men who had the guts to treat life like Mother Teresa did, then we would be men who were truly wild at heart.
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Summary: Undiluted truth.
Review: Eldredge's words ring true. I did a lot of soul searching, reading his book, and I could not but conclude that he was right on the money. This book can help every Christian man to be what God intended him to be - a MAN. Some may decry his work as "outdated", but I can safely say that a man has nothing to lose by embracing the ideals of a real masculine life and spirituality embraced in Eldredge's book, and everything to gain. And it is not a difficult task, for Eldredge is right - the standard of masculinity is a man's nature, the androgynous "norm" of society is what is unnatural and forced upon us. Or to put it another way, the Knight-in-Armor is reality, and the quiet, soft male of today is the damnable Fairy Tale, the twisted bedtime horror story. But let us make no mistake, no woman has anything to fear from such a man as Eldredge proposes, neither opression nor violence. Eldredge's work and Eldredge himself both respect women, and the mischaracterization of this book as some "Outlaws of Gor" style chauvinist fantasy manual is simply stupid. It is precisely the "hominophobia", as another reviewer put it, the fear of manhood, which is at work in the negative reviews here. A man is a powerful creature, and so he is also a dangerous one. It is only the craven and twisted soul that would seek to neuter him merely to feel safe. Hats off to you, Mr. Eldredge, and God Bless.
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Summary: Wildly off base
Review: Starting with an excellent premise, that being Christian men are sissies, to put it bluntly, Eldredge then diverges into a scripturally inaccurate and humanist philosophy. To sum it up, he basically says that the key to a man's spiritual rebirth is within himself, hidden away from the beginning of time. This ignores the Bible's decisive proclamations about the righteousness THROUGH Christ. Add to this the highly questionable theology(man was not intended for Eden, God NEEDS man's love, the fallen world is an accurate representation of what God originally created) makes this book dangerous and should be read with a discerning heart and a Bible close at hand. Also, his constant pop-culture refrences are vauge at best, illogical often, and distracting.
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Summary: A must read for everyone
Review: I read this book with a group of unmarried girls. Our leader was married. It is an amazing book. I think every person should read this book before going into marriage. After reading it I bought it for my dad and he read it twice. If will change any relationship you have. It's wonderful and amazing.
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Summary: Good for women too
Review: This book was given to me by a guy friend to help me understand my husband better and did it ever! It helped me vocalize many of the feelings I had been having about our relationship and how my husband deals with things. It also helped me vocalize to my husband my feelings about me as a Christian woman and what I desired from him as a Christian man. It is a quick read but some of the first chapters were kind of slow to me. They were more towards the male readers. The best chapter for me was The Wound. I also liked the way it brought in everyday life. Not everyone goes to church every Sunday and Wednesday. I did find it enlightening.
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