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Summary: This book will rock your little world
Review: If you have lost your desire somewhere on the journey, this is a must-read. I read it all in one gulp! Now I'm going back to savor each chapter. Having read Curtis and Eldredge's last book, "The Sacred Romance," I wondered how they could top that one. John Eldredge hit one out of the park with this one! I loved his use of stories, especially the story of the Sea Lion. It alone is worth the price of the book. Not only had I lost my desire, I had been trying to fulfill it with things that could never, and will never fulfill it in this life. Eldredge has done a great service to the body of Christ to re-tell the Christian Story as a romance filled with ecstasy and wooed on by desire for Jesus, our Bridegroom.
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Summary: Searching for the Desire's of Our Hearts
Review: In John Eldredge's book "The Journey of Desire", the reader is compelled to investigate the most interchore of heart's desire. Inside every person, there is a longing for something that seems to be just beyond our grasp. Eldredge reveals that many of us are afraid to let our desire lead us because it repeatedly ends in pain and rejection. Letting desire have a place in our lives "opens spaces of immense beauty and joy for [us], but you [may] be hurt." It is said that pleasure and pain go together. Jesus greatly desires to fill our hearts with purpose and to fulfill and satisfy our desires; it is He who asks us everyday what it is that we want. As Christians, we should always thirst, hunger, and desire our living God. For our only true, lasting satisfaction can be found in Him. After all our let downs, hurts, and disappointments, there is always restoration. For God is a faithful God, and He makes "all things new." Finally, our joy can never be truly found in others and in ourselves, but only united with God. We can only find our true self and real satisfaction in the fellowship of our Creator. We must see God as our lover, and our friend who will never leave us. This journey of the heart and desire is a never ending quest, and if we do not limit ourselves with what we accept of today, and if we run with perseverance the race marked out for us, our life will be filled with much more joy and satisfaction.
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Summary: Searching for the Desire's of Our Hearts
Review: In John Eldredge's book "The Journey of Desire", the reader is compelled to investigate the most interchore of heart's desire. Inside every person, there is a longing for something that seems to be just beyond our grasp. Eldredge reveals that many of us are afraid to let our desire lead us because it repeatedly ends in pain and rejection. Letting desire have a place in our lives "opens spaces of immense beauty and joy for [us], but you [may] be hurt." It is said that pleasure and pain go together. Jesus greatly desires to fill our hearts with purpose and to fulfill and satisfy our desires; it is He who asks us everyday what it is that we want. As Christians, we should always thirst, hunger, and desire our living God. For our only true, lasting satisfaction can be found in Him. After all our let downs, hurts, and disappointments, there is always restoration. For God is a faithful God, and He makes "all things new." Finally, our joy can never be truly found in others and in ourselves, but only united with God. We can only find our true self and real satisfaction in the fellowship of our Creator. We must see God as our lover, and our friend who will never leave us. This journey of the heart and desire is a never ending quest, and if we do not limit ourselves with what we accept of today, and if we run with perseverance the race marked out for us, our life will be filled with much more joy and satisfaction.
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Summary: The Bible has a better answer
Review: Isn't it frustrating when a book spends a lot of time building up the problem-to which you say, "Yeah! yeah! That's me!" and then gives you no answer, or a weak one to which you say, "No duh!" I'm afraid this book is one of them. The title is misleading because you assume he will help you find the life you've only dreamed of, or at least point you in the right direction to get started! But I was left depressed after reading it because it basically says that God gives us desires that we can't have on earth so that we will long for Him and Heaven. I don't believe that's the abundant life Jesus promised. So I went to the Bible. (I should have gone there first!) I looked up every time it talks about desires and got my answer. "Delight yourself IN THE LORD and He WILL give you the desires of your heart!" Ps. 37:4 So I set out to seek Him. I started reading "Knowing God" by J.I. Packer and began to get answers to all my questions about desire! I hope you'll find them too-in Him.
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Summary: The Bible has a better answer
Review: Isn't it frustrating when a book spends a lot of time building up the problem-to which you say, "Yeah! yeah! That's me!" and then gives you no answer, or a weak one to which you say, "No duh!" I'm afraid this book is one of them. The title is misleading because you assume he will help you find the life you've only dreamed of, or at least point you in the right direction to get started! But I was left depressed after reading it because it basically says that God gives us desires that we can't have on earth so that we will long for Him and Heaven. I don't believe that's the abundant life Jesus promised. So I went to the Bible. (I should have gone there first!) I looked up every time it talks about desires and got my answer. "Delight yourself IN THE LORD and He WILL give you the desires of your heart!" Ps. 37:4 So I set out to seek Him. I started reading "Knowing God" by J.I. Packer and began to get answers to all my questions about desire! I hope you'll find them too-in Him.
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Summary: Ever ask yourself, "What is missing, where is my joy?"
Review: John Eldredge's work--his writings, speaking engagements, and retreats--are life giving. It is obvious that he is living out of his passion to bring people's hearts back from the dead. In TJOD, John challenges us to seek the core of our desires and discover the face of the One Who placed those desires in our hearts.TJOD is an invitation to bring our hearts along on the journey and enjoy the life that God promises. This is a call to step into the light of our deepest longings instead of living under the shadow of the enemy's lies, and most importantly, to resurrect our desires. Haven't we lived long enough just getting by, surviving, living out our days? It is time to wake up, revive our passions, and live from our hearts. Eldredge reminds us that the greatest tragedy is not in dying, but in never living. Extensively citing ancient and contemporary sources, TJOD dares us to dream, to find our hearts, and enter deeply into communion with God. This is the only way to grasp the promised abundant life. Excellent work. Five stars.
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Summary: IF YOU ARE TIRED OF LIFE, THERE IS HOPE. A MUST READ!
Review: John has captured the essence of the Word of God. John is a real follower of Jesus Christ and is helping us see our real reason for existence. Life is more that the mundane and routine, there is a desire for something more, whether we admit it or not. Your soul longs for this book.Focus on the Family Institue will miss John dearly.
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Summary: Good news! There really is more to LIFE than, well, this.
Review: Other reviews have touched on overall main points, the part that meant the most to me was the conversation about heaven - the life we're created for! For the first time, heaven sounds cool! Quoting from page 111 (ch.7): "Nearly every Christian I have spoken with has some idea that eternity is an unending church service... and without giving it much thought we have settled on an image of the never-ending sing-along in the sky, one great hymn after another, forever and ever, amen. And our heart sinks. Forever and ever? That's it? That's the good news? And then we sigh and feel guilty that we are not more 'spiritual.' Heaven is the restoration of Eden - paradise. No wonder we're frustrated by this life in between, it's a fallen world, our souls show scars to prove it. Read the book, you'll see how this concept fits into the overall picture. An aside about "all the quotes" that others found distracting - many of them are Scripture, so I don't recommend skimming them all... the other quotes he has chosen are references from music and literature, and are evidence to me that a counselor from Colorado Springs is not the only one thinking and writing on the pursuit for MEANING in life... believers and nonbelievers alike are thirsty for it. The author is pointing in the direction he believes the well to be, I have a hunch he's right...
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Summary: In the tradition of C.S. Lewis
Review: St. Augustine once said of God, "We are meant for thee, and our hearts are ever restless until they meet their rest in thee." John Elderdge has done an astonishingly good book on finding the true desire of the heart, that elusive call of "Joy" which C.S. Lewis so ably spoke about.
From the opening words of his parable of the Sea Lion, which is worth the entire book, he guides the reader through that desire which is in the hearts of those who belong to Christ, and directs them to the One for whom that desire points.
As Elderdge points out, the problem most Christians have is not that their desires are too strong, but they are too weak. We mess around with things that don't amount to a hill of beans, while infinite joy is offered us.
It is well worth reading, and an eye-opener. It should awaken even the most lethargic soul.
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Summary: One of the really important books I've read this year!!!
Review: The author left me re-thinking some long held assumptions about desire, holiness and sanctification. For those of us who are prone to function out of duty, this is liberating reading. He could be, at times, a little verbose for my taste, but I was more than happy to wade through some tedious stylistic elements to get what he had to say. It's really, REALLY good. I'd suggest reading it slowly with a pen and paper close by.
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