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Summary: Wisdom-dense and worthwhile
Review: Daily devotional books are often superficial, but in "Diligently Seeking God," the reader is in for a strong intellectual and spiritual challenge. The format is definitely appropriate; this material should be taken in short, digestible doses. The thought-provoking richness of the 366 essays is reminiscent of the wisdom-dense writings of C.S. Lewis.The writing style is straightforward, free of the "churchy" expressions that tend to obscure material of this genre. Each lesson could have easily be expanded into a memorable Sunday morning sermon, and the quotes added at the end of each lesson are appropriate and surprising in their variety.
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Summary: Powerful devotional guide -- but dangerous reading
Review: Diligently Seeking God is a wonderful devotional guide. This book offers a complete year of meditations that will help you look at the question "What difference does it make whether we seek God?" Each page explores our need for God and invites you to a deeper desire for Him. The style is comfortable but reverent, but be warned: it will make you think, reflect, meditate and take God more seriously. That is why I call this dangerous reading. One cannot read this material and be the same. It demands we consider who God really is and that always compels change. This book is a tremendous tool for those who want to take their relationship with God to a better and deeper level. I really like that each day's devotion just has a date (like "June 5" or "December 14"). That means you can pick up Diligently Seeking God at any time and just start - you don't have to wait till January 1. It also means you are never behind because each day's devotion and reading is independent of the others. This is a book that won't disappoint you. I am anxious to spend an entire year with Diligently Seeking God.
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Summary: Straight to the Heart
Review: Scripture tells us time and again that we're a forgetful people. It's with this premise that Gary Henry presents a devotional for each day of the year to seek after God. He by-passes writing on extraneous Religious rituals/details and cuts right to the heart of the matter. Hence, the title, Diligently Seeking God.
Each devotion is preceded with a scripture verse, and concludes with a passage from some of the great spiritual writers of the past, as well as the present (E. M. Bounds, Nouwen, Merton, Thomas A Kempis, Francois Fenelon, Brother Lawrence, etc.).
Henry uses the pillars of faith and trust to explore our relationship with God, and expounds from there.
This isn't "light fluff" reading, like so many contemporary evangelical books these days, but rather, very much in the tradition of Oswald Chambers. Since this is the case, each page often requires a day of reflection to meditate and act on.
A very solid and meaty devotional, we're fortunate Henry will be following it up in the future with more of the same.
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Summary: Straight to the Heart
Review: Scripture tells us time and again that we're a forgetful people. It's with this premise that Gary Henry presents a devotional for each day of the year to seek after God. He by-passes writing on extraneous Religious rituals/details and cuts right to the heart of the matter. Hence, the title, Diligently Seeking God.
Each devotion is preceded with a scripture verse, and concludes with a passage from some of the great spiritual writers of the past, as well as the present (E. M. Bounds, Nouwen, Merton, Thomas A Kempis, Francois Fenelon, Brother Lawrence, etc.).
Henry uses the pillars of faith and trust to explore our relationship with God, and expounds from there.
This isn't "light fluff" reading, like so many contemporary evangelical books these days, but rather, very much in the tradition of Oswald Chambers. Since this is the case, each page often requires a day of reflection to meditate and act on.
A very solid and meaty devotional, we're fortunate Henry will be following it up in the future with more of the same.
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Summary: awesome
Review: This book was given to me as a gift when I was struggling with the reality of God and with my spirituality. This book helped me immensely.I have given it to at least 7 other people and I believe every one of those people loved it and gave it to 4 or 5 of their friends.This is an awesome book .It is hard to read one day at a time beccause you don't want to put it down !!
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Summary: awesome
Review: This book was given to me as a gift when I was struggling with the reality of God and with my spirituality. This book helped me immensely.I have given it to at least 7 other people and I believe every one of those people loved it and gave it to 4 or 5 of their friends.This is an awesome book .It is hard to read one day at a time beccause you don't want to put it down !!
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