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Is Jesus Enough?
Do you love Jesus for who He is or for what He does? If everything in your life was taken away from you, would He still be enough? Join with me as I show you my personal journey into discovering the All-Sufficient Christ. You will come to understand and appreciate why God allows struggles, trials and hard times to afflict His children.
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104 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 17, 2010
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March 19, 2012
This short book is an interesting theological discussion as to whether only having Jesus in your life would be enough, if everything else were to be taken away as in the story of Job.
I enjoy books like this because they make me think, they make me ponder. And this one has earned a spot on my "keepers" shelf on my kindle, so I can reference all the quotes and passaged I highlighted while I was reading it.
As a sampling, some of my favorite highlighed quotes are:
"God is good. When we cease to believe that foundational principle we open ourselves up to despair and hopelessness. Even when we do not understand the reasons why things are happening to us, we must cling to that one assurance. Job did."
"One of the ironies of the Christian life is that so many of our prayers center on God healing or delivering us from a life threatening situation - in effect delaying our arrival at the very place of our reward! How angry people get at God for transporting their loved one to glory instead of leaving them here to endure this sinful, broken earth. It seems that we have lost sight of heaven"
"Grace is the giving of something good to a person who doesn't deserve it. Mercy is not punishing one who does deserve it."
"I love my wife's definition of faith: The hope of a better future even if we cannot see how it will happen."
"Many times we pray for deliverance from problems and miss the opportunity to walk with God through them in an intimate way. That does not mean the problems are not real. It does not mean that the hurt isn't still there. It means that what we gain is not just relief but rapport. We gain not just rescue but relationship with the Lord himself."
and one that made me smile..talking about having faith as when Jesus called Peter out of the boat to walk on the water with him, and Peter had so little faith that he started to sink:
There is the storm of a lifetime out there. And if you get out of the boat - whatever your boat happens to be - there's a good chance you might sink! But...if you don't get out of the boat - there's a guaranteed certainty that you will never walk on the water. If you want to walk on water - you've got to get out of the boat. I believe there is something - someone - inside us who tells us there is more to life than sitting in the boat."
I enjoy books like this because they make me think, they make me ponder. And this one has earned a spot on my "keepers" shelf on my kindle, so I can reference all the quotes and passaged I highlighted while I was reading it.
As a sampling, some of my favorite highlighed quotes are:
"God is good. When we cease to believe that foundational principle we open ourselves up to despair and hopelessness. Even when we do not understand the reasons why things are happening to us, we must cling to that one assurance. Job did."
"One of the ironies of the Christian life is that so many of our prayers center on God healing or delivering us from a life threatening situation - in effect delaying our arrival at the very place of our reward! How angry people get at God for transporting their loved one to glory instead of leaving them here to endure this sinful, broken earth. It seems that we have lost sight of heaven"
"Grace is the giving of something good to a person who doesn't deserve it. Mercy is not punishing one who does deserve it."
"I love my wife's definition of faith: The hope of a better future even if we cannot see how it will happen."
"Many times we pray for deliverance from problems and miss the opportunity to walk with God through them in an intimate way. That does not mean the problems are not real. It does not mean that the hurt isn't still there. It means that what we gain is not just relief but rapport. We gain not just rescue but relationship with the Lord himself."
and one that made me smile..talking about having faith as when Jesus called Peter out of the boat to walk on the water with him, and Peter had so little faith that he started to sink:
There is the storm of a lifetime out there. And if you get out of the boat - whatever your boat happens to be - there's a good chance you might sink! But...if you don't get out of the boat - there's a guaranteed certainty that you will never walk on the water. If you want to walk on water - you've got to get out of the boat. I believe there is something - someone - inside us who tells us there is more to life than sitting in the boat."
May 8, 2012
I loved this book...
April 15, 2015
Good read...
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