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Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God | 
 enlarge | Authors: Francis Chan, Danae Yankoski
Publisher: David C. Cook
List Price: $13.99
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Rating:  32 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 186
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1434768511
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
EAN: 9781434768513
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"Sometimes I feel like when I make decisions that are remotely biblical, people who call themselves Christians are the first to criticize and say I'm crazy, that I'm taking the Bible too literally, or that I'm not thinking about my family's well-being. . . When people gladly sacrifice their time or comfort or home, it is obvious that they trust in the promises of God. Why is it that the story of someone who has actually done what Jesus commands resonates deeply with us, but we then assume we could never do anything so radical or intense? Or why do we call it radical when, to Jesus, it is simply the way it is? The way it should be?"
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Read this Book!! November 19, 2008
I had the chance to hear Francis Chan speak at NOC08 and received this book and it changed my life. This book helped me focus on the majesty of God and put me back in my place.
God is Love November 15, 2008
This book has opened my heart to fully embrace what living a life for Jesus means. Our world needs this book more than ever. There are so many lukewarm Christians living life half-heartedly. God has an ocean waiting for us, but we are comfortable swimming in the pool. Pastor Chan puts a realistic bent on what the foundation of our church should be, putting aside theology, although important, our faith should be grounded in love. I recommend this book to anyone who is searching for meaning, looking for love, or struggling with accepting Christianity. God is love, and when you embrace that and experience His love, you know He is real beyond your wildest dreams.
This is love. Great job Chan! November 11, 2008
I am usually not a person that reads during my leisure or buys a book and finishes it, but instead I have a tendency to get bored with one and move on to the next. This was not the case with this book! Chan does a great job of capturing your attention for the things that matter; like, if God did create us and did do all of these wonderful things for us, and did die a sacrificial death just for us, then why is our response to those things just to sit in church and try not to cuss. It's this type of thinking that stirs the hearts and minds of people to actually act out their faith in love. Great book, read it in a week, which is highly unusual for me.
Lukewarm Christians beware! November 4, 2008
If you don't like having your toes stepped on, you might want to wear steel toed boots while reading this book. In Crazy Love, Francis Chan calls the 21st Century church out of its lazy slumber and exhorts her to make a difference for the kingdom.
He begins by reminding us how small we are compared to the vastness of the Universe. He asks us to stop and think about the God who created the Universe, who loves us so much that He sent His Son to die for us in order to restore our relationship with Him. Yet what is the response to this Crazy Love by so many in today's Church?
Jesus calls it being lukewarm and warns that if we don't change, He will vomit us out of His mouth.
After grabbing us with that graphic and arresting image, Chan makes several practical, yet radical, suggestions about how we can be effective ministers for Christ in our culture and communities, turning Christ's Crazy Love for us into a Crazy Love for Him.
If you've been feeling like something is missing in your relationship with God, or need to be awakened out of a slumber, let this book shake you up. As Chris Tomlin says in the Foreword, "Crazy Love may just be the most challenging book outside of God's Word that you will read this year."
Life-Challenging October 27, 2008
In the first 3 chapters, Francis recounts the glories of God. I never want to loose me passion for God himself and Francis does s fine job of reminding us why God is great. (Very much in the flavor of John Piper or Sam Storms). Francis then takes this greatness and calls us to take a look at ourselves, the church. We are God's glory and reputation. He has changed and enriched my understanding of what it means to "love your neighbor as yourself." This book will probably be for me the best book I have read in 2008!
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