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Summary: Thought provoking, necessary reading
Review: I purchased this with some uneasiness but was very pleasently surprised. This book has just enough detail to make it credible but is filled with thought provoking, honest to goodness heart. It's right on with our problems in the area of organized religion and out world. Must read if you care.
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Summary: I'M AWAKE!!!!
Review: Wow!!! My eye's are open! In all my forty-one years I never looked at my life in this way and I'll be forever changed. I've given away three of these books and one audio book. It truly is a book that I'll pick up and read again and again. Praise God for John Eldredge!
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Summary: Eldredge's Message -- Not Just for Men
Review: John Eldredge gives us his clearest presentation yet of the concept that life in Christ has always been intended to be a love adventure. His examples from the lives of friends and fellow believers give concreteness to this book. I would like to see a more thorough scriptural explication. Eldredge's ideas are closely related to John Piper's theme of living a life of joy in the amazing goodness of God. Eldredge takes the same concept to a more personal, day-to-day application level. Get this book and read it. You will be glad you did.
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Summary: Groundbreaking work
Review: I've read all his books, this one is the best and in a class by itself. Not just a book for guys, but also for women and teenagers - for people who want to know God. Laden with scripture, parables modern and ancient, personal experience, Eldridge provides great insight on gaining intimacy with Him. God operates from His heart, so should we!
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Summary: Wake up out of the fog most Christians live in
Review: This is a great book. The book reads like a conversation with the author. I read it over a weekend and have re-read it since. "The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy but I have come that you may have life and have it to the full". Jesus words in John 10:10 set the stage for the core of Waking the Dead.
Is there a thief, an enemy trying to keep us down-actually at war with us?
Can we have life to the full or just clean up our act as best we can and just look forward to heaven?Read all about it in Waking the Dead--let your heart come fully alive!
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Summary: One of those books that change your life........
Review: The is the second book by John Eldredge I have read and they are both very powerful. (I read The Sacred Romance first.) It falls in the category of the books and movies and songs that change your life forever. John writes to your insides and those insides need to hear his message--- desperately, in almost all cases I'm afraid! I found myself being afraid for the Church which seems so far along the "dead" path much of the time. I would caution readers that to read this book is to be challenged to really find out what is in YOUR heart, and the journey is never easy since we have spent however many years we've been here hiding it and running from it. In the most fundamental way it is so refreshing to hear that I am OK, not perfect mind you, but OK. In fact, I'm so OK with God that He rescued me (and all the other "me's" throughout time). What would happen if we lived like we believed He didn't have ANY OBLIGATION to rescue us?-- HE LOVES US!!!!! HE LOVES ME!!!!!!!!!!!! No, its not a dream, He really does. What an awesome way to live and an awesome book. Thanks, John!
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Summary: Waking the Dead by John Eldredge
Review: Wow, this book is so significant! Can't recommend it enough. I've already given away 4 copies of this book. One that ALL in the body of Christ should read. This book is the BEST book I've ever ready and along with the Bible would be the one other book I'd have to have.
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Summary: Get this book!
Review: I love the honesty with which John Eldredge writes -- life really is hard and it really is very confusing. I can relate to that. Christians need to acknowledge this fact. But my heart is gripped by the idea that "things are not what they seem" as all good stories teach us, and that I am more than who I feel like I am. John Eldredge's plea to hear what "mythic" stories (written or on film) are trying to teach us about reality captures my imagination and gives me hope. Reading how Eldredge uses these stories to illustrate what is really happening in the world makes my faith in Christ seem so much more fresh and new and alive. Whereas "The Sacred Romance" introduced us to the fact that there is a great story happening here, and "Wild at Heart" showed us that we have an important place in that story, "Waking The Dead" helps us to see what the story is a little more clearly and what must happen for us to truly take our places in this grand drama. Perhaps the most revolutionary part of this book is that we must wake up to the fact that we are caught in the middle of a spiritual war and we must live like people at war. Without that understanding much of life makes no sense. Without reservation, I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Waking the Dead
Review: Reading this book was a life-changing event. The author's insights into the realities of life and the division between our minds and our hearts is not just simple wake-up call. It is a call that can, indeed, wake up the spiritually dead heart and restore us to the fullness of life for which God designed us.
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Summary: Seemed Shallow
Review: I was amazed by how anthropocentric this book is. I guess I mean, I wasn't expecting the book to be so self-help oriented by way of telling the reader how great he/she is. Eldridge strokes his readers by pointing how their inherent value and worth. That is, he refers to the glory found in the human spirit and uses that to expand the reader's view of themself. What's wrong with that? Well, from a Christian worldview as the goodness of the individual goes up the necessity for a savior goes down. What I mean is, if people are so good and if God is essentially a loving God then we're OK, I'm OK, you're OK. Sin? What's that? God as Judge? Why? That would be mean-spirited and we all know God is merely loving. Jesus dieing for the sins of the world? Get out. That's not for today's Christians. We want passion, adventure, and following our own hearts. I want what my heart wants, because the heart is central. I'm on the throne and it's my glory I'm primarily concerned with. Eldridge's message shows how living from the heart can energize people to love themselves in a way they've never experienced, revealing to them life's purpose: fighting for the passions of their hearts. But, that's not all! Eldredge fans will find that he has not departed much from the formula that made Wild at Heart so successful; he culls examples from popular culture (The Perfect Storm, The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz) and tells vivid stories from his own experience. With that said, there's really not much scripture in the book - and the scripture he does use seems to be proof-texting his positions on the inherent goodness of the human soul. If you're looking for the classic doctrines of the Christian church like redemption, atonement, justification and a better understanding of the Cross of Jesus Christ -- I'd recommend other books. However, if you want to feel better about your desires and wants and how those desires are good and should not be questioned -- let me highly recommend Waking the Dead.
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