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The Way of Love
Through 21 daily devotional readings, practices and alignments, The Way of Love invites you deeper into the life-changing teachings of Jesus on the only way to find love and peace in this life.
Each one which invites you into a single transformational idea and practice that opens your eyes to the only thing that really matters in this life awakening to who you truly are in this plane of existence.
*The first edition of The Way of Love was released as a limited edition, which combined all 45 daily reading of The Way of Book 1 (21 readings) and The Way of Book 2 (24 readings) into a single volume. The first edition is now out of print.
Each one which invites you into a single transformational idea and practice that opens your eyes to the only thing that really matters in this life awakening to who you truly are in this plane of existence.
*The first edition of The Way of Love was released as a limited edition, which combined all 45 daily reading of The Way of Book 1 (21 readings) and The Way of Book 2 (24 readings) into a single volume. The first edition is now out of print.
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Published January 1, 2018
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Ted Dekker
192 books9,978 followersTed Dekker is known for novels that combine adrenaline-laced stories with unexpected plot twists, unforgettable characters, and incredible confrontations between good and evil. Ted lives in Austin with his wife LeeAnn and their four children.
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March 9, 2022
The Gospel in Ten Words by Paul Ellis, The Naked Gospel by Andrew Farley, and Unoffendable by Brant Hanson are all excellent reads and deal with similar concepts: discovering God’s freeing, life-transforming love, grace, mercy and forgiveness and all that we are as sons and daughters without slipping on the edges of new age theology like this book.
In the book’s summary: “Yeshua taught that all are the light of the world but few see the truth of their being and so languish in judgement and darkness regardless of their religion or cultural affiliation. We were all born blind with the specific purpose of seeing the truth of our identity in a world of polarity—up and down, good and evil, light and dark… The kingdom of heaven isn’t a future or distant place we go to, but the dimension of light and love that is here and now, among and within all of us, even the Pharisees… Although we call ourselves Christians and have prayed the prayers that we were told made us so, we now see that we are often no more born again than any other. Our salvation isn’t a dry legal transaction that has left us powerless to love as Yeshua said we would. Our salvation is found in a life-empowering awakening to the light and love of Christ as we come into the truth of who we’ve always been.”
The Scriptures listed before each devotional were interjected with his interpretations in parentheses, often several times. An example: “So we fix our eyes (our intention and perception) not on what is seen (earthen-vessel self and the world of polarity), but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary (changes in form) but what is unseen is eternal. (Our true self is eternal, beyond time and space.) 2 Corinthians 4:18.” This made it difficult to read, harder to hear from Holy Spirit, and pushed into his interpretations. It often felt like he was forcing the verses—which were rarely explained in the context written—be seen through his lens and main points he was trying to make: true love never judges or keeps a record of wrong, there is no fear in true love, and we are all saved but just need to figure this out in our journey. It would have been better to have the verses as is from his favorite translations and flesh them out in the devotion after.
Some of the book’s content captured truths well, and often his analogies were creative and vivid, which isn’t surprising as he is a gifted fiction writer. Chapter 6, Above All, I Seek Love, was my favorite and most in-line with the Scriptures as I understand them.
If you hold to the core truths of the gospel message, this is not a recommended read with its mixing in of new age thought.
In the book’s summary: “Yeshua taught that all are the light of the world but few see the truth of their being and so languish in judgement and darkness regardless of their religion or cultural affiliation. We were all born blind with the specific purpose of seeing the truth of our identity in a world of polarity—up and down, good and evil, light and dark… The kingdom of heaven isn’t a future or distant place we go to, but the dimension of light and love that is here and now, among and within all of us, even the Pharisees… Although we call ourselves Christians and have prayed the prayers that we were told made us so, we now see that we are often no more born again than any other. Our salvation isn’t a dry legal transaction that has left us powerless to love as Yeshua said we would. Our salvation is found in a life-empowering awakening to the light and love of Christ as we come into the truth of who we’ve always been.”
The Scriptures listed before each devotional were interjected with his interpretations in parentheses, often several times. An example: “So we fix our eyes (our intention and perception) not on what is seen (earthen-vessel self and the world of polarity), but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary (changes in form) but what is unseen is eternal. (Our true self is eternal, beyond time and space.) 2 Corinthians 4:18.” This made it difficult to read, harder to hear from Holy Spirit, and pushed into his interpretations. It often felt like he was forcing the verses—which were rarely explained in the context written—be seen through his lens and main points he was trying to make: true love never judges or keeps a record of wrong, there is no fear in true love, and we are all saved but just need to figure this out in our journey. It would have been better to have the verses as is from his favorite translations and flesh them out in the devotion after.
Some of the book’s content captured truths well, and often his analogies were creative and vivid, which isn’t surprising as he is a gifted fiction writer. Chapter 6, Above All, I Seek Love, was my favorite and most in-line with the Scriptures as I understand them.
If you hold to the core truths of the gospel message, this is not a recommended read with its mixing in of new age thought.
December 4, 2019
I cannot think of a way I could over sell this book - but - BEFORE you read it - you have to read Dekkers Mystic series ... (it's in my recommendations somewhere in this list from a few months ago) ... mind blowing ...radically rethinking everything we thought we knew about "LOVE" ...
I'm hoping to go through this day by day again in 2020 & try to follow his instructions to write out my reactions to what he is writing/teaching as I go through it ...
I couldn't do this on the 1st read as all of what I felt and learned was simply to much at times ... I had to read & reread almost every day ...
Hoping, I can deeply internalize all of what he has to say ...
slr
I'm hoping to go through this day by day again in 2020 & try to follow his instructions to write out my reactions to what he is writing/teaching as I go through it ...
I couldn't do this on the 1st read as all of what I felt and learned was simply to much at times ... I had to read & reread almost every day ...
Hoping, I can deeply internalize all of what he has to say ...
slr
September 12, 2019
Beyond excellent
It was eye opening and lifesaving while spellbounding at the same time. God opened my eyes to the fact that I do not look different than the "lost" world and in that He led me to the treasure of Ted Dekker books. No words even to express my wonder and gratitude. Awesome author, awesome books
It was eye opening and lifesaving while spellbounding at the same time. God opened my eyes to the fact that I do not look different than the "lost" world and in that He led me to the treasure of Ted Dekker books. No words even to express my wonder and gratitude. Awesome author, awesome books
February 4, 2019
I was looking forward to this study but it fell short of the high expectations in the context of the journal and the second book purchased together as a package. There seemed to be a lot of repetitive messages but the theme is a good one.
February 22, 2021
Awesome devotional book to challenge your thinking of how God loves you and how you should love others.
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