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Summary: No longer need to ask "why?"
Review: As a woman who has lost a child, this book really touched me. It speaks to everyone of us when it deals with the question of "What do we do with a God does not live up to our expectations?" As only Gene Edwards can do, we are transported by his writings to a time and place of great spiritual importance, and made to understand aspects of God that, in this case, we would like to change. But God is God...and we can't change Him. A must read for all Christians whose God has remained silent...
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Summary: When God is Silent
Review: As a woman who has lost a child, this book really touched me. It speaks to everyone of us when it deals with the question of "What do we do with a God does not live up to our expectations?" As only Gene Edwards can do, we are transported by his writings to a time and place of great spiritual importance, and made to understand aspects of God that, in this case, we would like to change. But God is God...and we can't change Him. A must read for all Christians whose God has remained silent...
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Summary: No longer need to ask "why?"
Review: Gene Edwards did it again. Addressing the hard issues of our walk with God..."Why??" The humaness of John the Baptist comes to life in a way most of us ovelooked.
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Summary: If God hasn't met your expectations . . . . .
Review: Gene Edwards has a way of zeroing in on the issue. "When God doesn't meet your expectations," the topic of this very powerful story of John the Baptist. John asks the same questions as we ask, "Are you the One?" "Why don't you come?" You will find answers in this poignant book about "blessed are those who are not offended with me." Read it. I promise you won't be sorry!
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Gene nails the issue of God's silent nature dead on. What more could be said on this matter after reading this book? Absolutely NONE. Gene wonderfully shows that there must be a "why" aspect in our lives. He writes that w/out the "why's", there would be no real inward transformation in our lives. I learned that the power of an unanswered question can truly change and transform something as evil and decietful as our hearts. Gene takes you from John the Baptist's "why" in prison to Jesus's "why have you forsaken me" on the cross. Very deep stuff here people. I particularly enjoy the way Gene transports the readers into the mind of the Lord as He walks through the corridors of time. After reading this book, you will never again ask God "why" w/out a slight understanding that sometimes silence is the highest way.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Gene nails the issue of God's silent nature dead on. What more could be said on this matter after reading this book? Absolutely NONE. Gene wonderfully shows that there must be a "why" aspect in our lives. He writes that w/out the "why's", there would be no real inward transformation in our lives. I learned that the power of an unanswered question can truly change and transform something as evil and decietful as our hearts. Gene takes you from John the Baptist's "why" in prison to Jesus's "why have you forsaken me" on the cross. Very deep stuff here people. I particularly enjoy the way Gene transports the readers into the mind of the Lord as He walks through the corridors of time. After reading this book, you will never again ask God "why" w/out a slight understanding that sometimes silence is the highest way.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Gene nails the issue of God's silent nature dead on. What more could be said on this matter after reading this book? Absolutely NONE. Gene wonderfully shows that there must be a "why" aspect in our lives. He writes that w/out the "why's", there would be no real inward transformation in our lives. I learned that the power of an unanswered question can truly change and transform something as evil and decietful as our hearts. Gene takes you from John the Baptist's "why" in prison to Jesus's "why have you forsaken me" on the cross. Very deep stuff here people. I particularly enjoy the way Gene transports the readers into the mind of the Lord as He walks through the corridors of time. After reading this book, you will never again ask God "why" w/out a slight understanding that sometimes silence is the highest way.
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Summary: Have you ever been disappointed by God?
Review: Have you ever felt like a failure as a Christian when God disappointed you? When God let you down? What do you do when God doesn't live up to your expectations? John the Baptist knew who Jesus was. They were cousins, acquainted with each other, maybe friends. Certainly God revealed Jesus in His glory when John baptised Him! Father, Son and Holy Spirit converge in a moment of spiritual manifestation. But sitting in the third cell of Herod's damp, dark prison, day after day certainly didn't feel like deliverance. Where was this king? The powerful one? Where was the fire? Where was this Jesus? If the "greatest [man] born of woman" had his questions, disappointments, frustrations, how much more might we have the same today? He knew Jesus face to face, as a man knows a friend.
Yet, his understanding was rocked by the God who answers many questions but rarely answers "Why?". Edwards answers these issues, sort of, in an insightful, profound way. The book will lead you back to where you began but with a deeper faith and clearer insight toward this powerful, invisible God who will do what He will do. "His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts." Thank you, Lord.
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Summary: John the Baptist as you have never seen
Review: In a style that is totally Gene Edwards,the author reveals to us an in depth, almost uncanny biography in the life of John the Baptist.The story shows how close John and Jesus were,being cousins and tells a tale of their growing up together as young boys.It really makes the stories in the bible come to life,and gives you even more compassion both for John and for Jesus.For when John was imprisoned in a hole in the ground,called a cell,a place so horrible the roman centurions didn't even want to place him there, Jesus could not interfere, and John stood his ground before Herod.The author brings tears to your eyes as he describes when John sends two disciples to ask Jesus if He is the ONE.Jesus replies go and tell John of the things which you hear and see:"the blind see and the lame walk;the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear;the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.And blessed is he who is not offended because of me."The man who is closest to Jesus at this time in His life
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Summary: the answer to the question "Why God?"
Review: This book is a fictional but accurate potrayal of the life of John the baptist. The reason the book is so powerful lies in the fact that we ask God the same question John does. "If you're such a great God, why do bad things happen?" And John wonders if Jesus really is the 'One', and he doupts that his life and what he did mean anything at all. God answers John's questions the same way He answers our questions,... This is a must read for every Christian who questions God's goodness.
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