Choices for a Lifetime: Determining the Values That Will Shape Your Future

by Stuart Briscoe

This book explains how godly values give solid foundations for living and provide the resources we need for purposeful, fulfilling lives. How we determine our values, Stuart Briscoe says, depends on what is sovereign in our life.

Genres: Christian Living

206 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Dr. D. Stuart Briscoe is an evangelical Christian author, international speaker and the former senior pastor of Elmbrook Church, in Brookfield, Wisconsin

Reviews

[Jacki · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is the second time that I've attempted to read this book and this is the second time that I've given up. It's not that Mr. Briscoe didn't have good points to make. It's that I didn't know exactly what those points were and who he was telling them to. At first, I thought this was a book written for a nonreligious audience because he starts off by explaining that moral authority cannot be found in the secular world. But the second chapter jumps to the conclusion that only Christ can give moral authority and states it as if it's well understood by the audience (or at least, he give no support for it, so I assume he's assuming his audience knows it).

After that, everything is just muddled. I couldn't follow his progression of thought, I didn't know what his major point was, and I was frustrated because he seemed to be making supporting arguments for statements that he never clarified, and then making statements with no arguments to support them. He was saying too much and too little at the same time.

I gave up on page 22.
I feel bad.