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Summary: The Will of God is excellent
Review: I found this book to be wonderful. In my own walk with God, I have been struggling with trying to determine the will of God. This book helped me find answers to the questions I've been asking, and has me asking different questions. It is based on a series of sermons by Leslie Weatherhead given in the 1950's. This is not a book you breeze through. The material is very deep and the language is a bit different than today's, but is very thought provoking. I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: The Will of God is excellent
Review: I found this book to be wonderful. In my own walk with God, I have been struggling with trying to determine the will of God. This book helped me find answers to the questions I've been asking, and has me asking different questions. It is based on a series of sermons by Leslie Weatherhead given in the 1950's. This is not a book you breeze through. The material is very deep and the language is a bit different than today's, but is very thought provoking. I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: Simple explanations for tough questions
Review: I have found this book to help in answering questions that not only I have, but others as well. It's hard to understand sometimes what God's will is. This book explains different aspects of God's will and how they apply in different situations. Being humans we can only try to understand, so this book may not be correct, but it sure helps in my human understanding.
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Summary: Simple answers to difficult questions
Review: I was very disappointed in this book for several reasons. There is very little scriptural quotation to buttress Mr. Weatherhead's ideas. There seem to be several moments when he is attempting to understand God simply as he would wish God to be, not necessarily for any Biblical reasons. There were a few moments when I felt Mr. Weatherhead was actually reading scripture at its exactly opposite meaning. For example, are we to assume that ultimately God never intended Jesus to be crucified, even after thousands of years of prophecy basically spelled out how it would happen? Didn't Jesus Himself say he came to offer His life "as a ransom for many?" Also, there is a distressing quality to see events simply as All Bad, or All Good, and nothing inbetween. The will of God either envisions the acts as they affect all people, or it is extremely limited in its scope. Are we to assume God's will only affects those who believe in Him? Are we to then assume that those who do not are outside His will and outside His reach and understanding? While he does have some interesting points, and his grouping of the Will of God into three different categories is laudable, it is difficult to agree with the conclusions he draws simply because he is so fast in arriving at them. While this book does a good job at comforting, it seems to comfort with a frustrating lack of specificity. I would recommend this book to people who are in pain, but I would not recommend it to those who want reliable answers as to why things happen when we cannot understand them. Outside of the Bible itself, I would recommend the books of Philip Yancey and C.S. Lewis. It is impossible to tackle a subject as absolutely all-incompassing and unknowable as "the Will of God" in 86 pages.
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Summary: One of the more readable books concerning the will of God
Review: Often we hear the phrase "will of God" being applied inappropriately - such as when a friend is killed in an auto accident. Though this book was written during WW II, its theme is just as relevant today as then. Weatherhead distinguishes between the Intentional Will of God, the Circumstantial Will of God, and the Ultimate Will of God. The book is very readable and when I have reviewed it for groups of people, there is an immediate positive response to what they have heard.
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Summary: Simple answers to difficult questions
Review: The Will of God is a book that is not overwhelming for a person that is suffering a great loss in their life. I have been handing this book out to many people that have suffered the loss of a loved one, or have had bad things happen in their lives, and it explains, without questioning the omnipotence of God, how God helps us deal with loss and how to help someone else. I recommend that every Christian buy this book!
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Summary: This book is genius, and has stood the test of time.
Review: The Will of God is a book that is not overwhelming for a person that is suffering a great loss in their life. I have been handing this book out to many people that have suffered the loss of a loved one, or have had bad things happen in their lives, and it explains, without questioning the omnipotence of God, how God helps us deal with loss and how to help someone else. I recommend that every Christian buy this book!
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Summary: Practical spiritual lessons stand the test of time.
Review: The Will of God was written in 1944, but remains relevant today for anyone interested in a God that is more than an oversimplified, superstitious way to avoid the pain associated with the hard realities of life. "These are days full of loss and pain, of suffering and sorrow. But they are not days of waste," the Reverend Leslie Weatherhead tells us. This little book ---- only 85 pages --- offers a simple but powerful way to reconcile genuine faith with thoughtful intelligence. Since it is our response to the circumstances of life, rather than the circumstances themselves, that determine whether or not these are "days of waste," Reverend Weatherhead's paradigm for understanding the relationship between God's will and man's will is a valuable tool to help us improve the quality of that response in the face of everything from the catastrophic to the most mundane of circumstances. The five chapters of The Will of God were originally five sermons written and delivered by Reverend Weatherhead, but it is not necessary to be a Christian to benefit from the wisdom here. In fact, there is nothing evangelical about the book. It is a lesson in practical spirituality, applicable to us all, and it will be as relevant in another sixty years as it is today. I suggest buying several copies at once to save on shipping --- you will want to share this one.
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Summary: TRY THIS ALTERNATIVE
Review: This book is an outstanding book for anyone who wants to gain an understanding on what God's will is. I have heard the term "the will of God" used when someone has suffered greatly. I thought how can it be God's will if someone has cancer? If it's God's will for someone to have cancer is that person going against God's will when they go through surgery and chemotherapy to fight the cancer? The answer is NO! This book distinguishes between the Intentional Will of God, the Circumstantial Will of God, and the Ultimate Will of God. This little book offers a simple but powerful way to reconcile genuine faith with thoughtful intelligence. I highly recommend this book for everyone.
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Summary: What is God's will is answered.
Review: This book is an outstanding book for anyone who wants to gain an understanding on what God's will is. I have heard the term "the will of God" used when someone has suffered greatly. I thought how can it be God's will if someone has cancer? If it's God's will for someone to have cancer is that person going against God's will when they go through surgery and chemotherapy to fight the cancer? The answer is NO! This book distinguishes between the Intentional Will of God, the Circumstantial Will of God, and the Ultimate Will of God. This little book offers a simple but powerful way to reconcile genuine faith with thoughtful intelligence. I highly recommend this book for everyone.
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