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A Place For God: Navigating Timeless Questions for our Modern Times
Where are you?
Today, your favourite maps app will give you your location down to a greater level of detail than ever before. But do you really feel like you know where you are?
Major cultural shifts over the past generation have left us feeling disorientated; constant connection has left us feeling dislocated. And many of us are searching for something we can’t seem to find. Could the problem be that we have lost a place for God?
Pete Nicholas invites you to explore the big questions asked by each generation from those of origin and identity to happiness and hope, arguing that by reinstating God’s centrality in our lives we can find a sense of rootedness, peace and the answers we’ve been looking for.
Featuring a foreword by Timothy Keller, author, speaker and church leader.
Today, your favourite maps app will give you your location down to a greater level of detail than ever before. But do you really feel like you know where you are?
Major cultural shifts over the past generation have left us feeling disorientated; constant connection has left us feeling dislocated. And many of us are searching for something we can’t seem to find. Could the problem be that we have lost a place for God?
Pete Nicholas invites you to explore the big questions asked by each generation from those of origin and identity to happiness and hope, arguing that by reinstating God’s centrality in our lives we can find a sense of rootedness, peace and the answers we’ve been looking for.
Featuring a foreword by Timothy Keller, author, speaker and church leader.
160 pages, Paperback
Published July 17, 2021
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September 14, 2022
Pete Nicholas' new book manages to scratch both apologetic and evangelistic itches as explores how a place for God has been lost when it comes to many of life's big questions.
As he looks to some of the Western World's hot topics: Origins, truth, morality, the pursuit of happiness, identity and hope, Nicholas how a self-centred approach rings hollow, but the gospel resonates with & expands on all of these deep desires.
A worthwhile book for the staff team at our church to read together, but equally valuable and compelling in the hands of a new believer, or even someone who's questioning if there is room for God in their lives.
As he looks to some of the Western World's hot topics: Origins, truth, morality, the pursuit of happiness, identity and hope, Nicholas how a self-centred approach rings hollow, but the gospel resonates with & expands on all of these deep desires.
A worthwhile book for the staff team at our church to read together, but equally valuable and compelling in the hands of a new believer, or even someone who's questioning if there is room for God in their lives.
February 22, 2022
Finished reading Pete Nicholas’s “A Place For God”, and found it easy to read, even though it dealt with serious questions people today are asking. Nicholas explains where we are in our quest for significance, and our struggles to know what our basic beliefs are. The chapter headings enumerate the main topics people are dealing with: Origins, Truth, Morality, Happiness, Identity, and Hope, and how God has a major part to play in all of them if we are open to seeing and understanding. I found the book encouraging and compelling, and highly recommend it to anyone seeking answers to life or wrestling with these questions.
June 12, 2026
Nicholas explores life's biggest questions; identity, happiness, truth, hope, and diagnoses the modern disorientation as the loss of God's centrality. It scratches both apologetic and evangelistic itches, showing how a self-centred approach rings hollow while the gospel resonates with our deepest desires. Accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking.
August 25, 2021
Concise and helpful in many places.
June 10, 2022
A thinner updated version of The Reason for God. Nicholas’s writing is accessible, but speaking just for me, I think the time for apologetics of this kind is a little past.
January 4, 2023
Wow!
One of the books I’ve read on faith for a long time. A fresh approach, readable, brief and shareable with seekers.
One of the books I’ve read on faith for a long time. A fresh approach, readable, brief and shareable with seekers.
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