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Summary: Really brings a Bible life "to life"!...
Review: ...The life of King David, that is. Bickle uses the story of King David's life, as well as the Psalms, to reveal a profound truth: why King David managed to possess one of the closest relationships to God in the Old Testament--and better still, how readers can emulate him in a New Covenant environment. My only gripe with this book is a relatively minor one, but it is, nonetheless, the reason I give this book 4 stars instead of 5. The practical steps to actually achieving what Mike Bickle promotes here are hidden somewhere in the text, and never stated up-front: in a chapter of their own, for example. Rather than do this, he brushes quickly by the practical issues in a matter of a paragraph or so. While the answer IS there, it becomes visible only to the dedicated searcher--or perhaps, to one inspired enough by his glowing portrait of God's affections on first reading of the book to read the book through a second time, and discover the practical application that way--which, given his motivation in writing the book in the first place, I suppose was his point: to create the wholehearted lovers of God he perceives David to have been the first of. A minor flaw, as I said--not enough to keep this from being a truly meaty read to any incipient "God-chasers" who happen to be reading this review! Buy it, and find the first "best-kept secret" of the Christian church: God actually _likes_ us!
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Summary: Really brings a Bible life "to life"!...
Review: ...The life of King David, that is. Bickle uses the story of King David's life, as well as the Psalms, to reveal a profound truth: why King David managed to possess one of the closest relationships to God in the Old Testament--and better still, how readers can emulate him in a New Covenant environment. My only gripe with this book is a relatively minor one, but it is, nonetheless, the reason I give this book 4 stars instead of 5. The practical steps to actually achieving what Mike Bickle promotes here are hidden somewhere in the text, and never stated up-front: in a chapter of their own, for example. Rather than do this, he brushes quickly by the practical issues in a matter of a paragraph or so. While the answer IS there, it becomes visible only to the dedicated searcher--or perhaps, to one inspired enough by his glowing portrait of God's affections on first reading of the book to read the book through a second time, and discover the practical application that way--which, given his motivation in writing the book in the first place, I suppose was his point: to create the wholehearted lovers of God he perceives David to have been the first of. A minor flaw, as I said--not enough to keep this from being a truly meaty read to any incipient "God-chasers" who happen to be reading this review! Buy it, and find the first "best-kept secret" of the Christian church: God actually _likes_ us!
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Summary: Breaking down lies of the deceiver!
Review: The Truth has set me free! Never in my life have I experience Jesus so real before. His love has flooded my entire being, and my capacity to love Him back has increased and deepend beyond words!This is a book for anyone who has been caught up in "works/religion", and trying to win God's love with following a set of rules. His waves of love will crush those walls as soon as you let Him!
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