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Title: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller ISBN: 0-7852-6370-5 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 17 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing! Real, true and inspiring. Great w/a vanilla latte
Comment: I recently finished reading Blue Like Jazz, and was incredibly impressed with the vulnerability and honesty that was so endearingly expressed throughout the pages. Like many others, I too feel like if I met Don I could sit down and have a long conversation with him as if we were old friends.
This is definitely the sort of book that I want every person I know to read. As well as every person that I don't know.
It takes an honest look at Christian "religion" versus Christian spirituality and explores the differences and the way our society has twisted them both.
Point blank, it is all so much more simple than people try to make it. God loves us.
Jesus died for us. Jesus desires a relationship with us. Blue Like Jazz is a wonderful expression of this journey and gives the reader a taste of what life looks like when you let Jesus love you and love Him back.
Thanks so much Don, this book was incredible blessing to me.
Rating: 5
Summary: A GREAT READ.
Comment: In reading Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz, I found myself laughing out loud and being deeply convicted within the same sentence. His words and stories are well chosen, without sounding stuffy, and his message is one which I have long wished to live out. This is one of the first books I have read in a long time that lets a man's faith be lived out honestly, out of the box, and still true to the centrality of faith: a love relationship with Jesus. I felt as though many chapters were telling my story. Thankfully, this is not your typical "Christian" book. Nowhere does Miller try to force you one way or another, but seeks to encourage readers to live authentic lives. Read it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Blue Like Jazz Good Read for the Soul
Comment: "Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them."
This, according to author Donald Miller is something very simple about relationships that his friend Spencer helped him discover. And this same wisdom is precisely why I liked Blue Like Jazz - I believe Donald Miller ("Don" to his friends, of which I am now considering myself) likes me in a never-met-before-but-I'm-sure-we'd-be-good-friends kind of way.
Besides being a very talented thirty-something writer, Miller's other obvious gift is that he's incredibly smart, or at least he seems so when you read his very laid-back but very brilliant processing of life and ministry at Portland's Reed College, "which has the distinction of being ranked one of the most intellectual and one of the most godless colleges in the country."
But (and this is the cool part), Miller's not above some good old-fashioned feelings of insecurity and funny fits of self-deprecation as he relates his successes and struggles with his "nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality." Drawing on arguments more grounded in self-evidence than Scripture (though the two are not mutually exclusive by any means), Miller's graceful considerations of a multitude of topics are fun and meaningful to read. Some highlights:
"My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don't really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don't believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and honestly I don't care. I don't believe I will ever walk away from God for intellectual reasons. Who know anything anyway? If I walk away from Him, and please pray that I never do, I will walk away for social reasons, identity reasons, deep emotional reasons, the same reasons that any of us do anything."
"The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me...I hear addicts talk about the shakes and panic attacks and the highs and lows of resisting their habit, and to some degree I understand them because I have had habits of my own, but no drug is so powerful as the drug of self. No rut in the mind is so deep as the one that says I am the world, the world belongs to me, all people are characters in my play. There is no addiction so powerful as self-addiction."
Humorous and honest, Blue Like Jazz is true to its name in that it's interesting (and maybe a little sad) to listen to if you don't mind the fact that - like jazz music - not everything resolves. Recommended.
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Title: The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0787963879 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 078795599X Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 28 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: More Ready Than You Realize by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0310239648 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance by Donald Miller ISBN: 0736901604 Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives by Leonard Sweet, Andy Crouch, Brian D. McLaren, Erwin Raphael McManus, Michael Horton, Frederica Matthewes-Green ISBN: 0310254876 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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