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December 19, 2006
[Book Review] Furious Pursuit
It’s not often that you find a book that is co-written by one of James Dobson‘s staff writers and praised by Brian McLaren. This alone was enough to intrigue me.
Recently, I was contacted by a guy named Tim King. He wanted to send me a book he had written, Furious Pursuit – Why God Will Never Let You Go, to review. Lately, it seems, I have found a little niche for receiving cool books from nice people to review on this humble little Weblog. A couple of weeks later, not only did I receive the book, but the companion workbook and CD.
Tim King is not the Dobson staff writer I mentioned above. That would be the co-author, Frank Martin. It turns out that Mr. Martin is the author of many books. Tim King is a former pastor who has written a couple of books himself.
Now, admittedly, I haven’t made my way through the entire book yet. I just have too much going on right now. But, so far, it has been a pretty good read. There has been more than a nod to post-modern linguism — which I’m a sucker for — and the feeling that the two authors are writing from their gut, not just from things they’ve heard from other people. I like that a lot.
The first paragraph on the back of the book is this:
What if you could believe that God not only chases you, but that he has never left your side? You can know that God is never distant, never out of reach, and never indifferent to what is going on in your life.
To be quite honest, I believe that this is an extremely important aspect of the Christian faith. But, while it fails not in being eternally ingeminated, it is something one hears on most Sundays at a typical evangelical church service and lets fall through the cracks of their subconcious. So, how do we come to believe such a statement without chalking it up to tired Christian rhetoric?
This book, I think investigates this very characteristic.
Furious Pursuit examines what it means to be an individual, called by God. It dissects what it is that makes up our stories and makes us a people who God desires to befriend and love.
I am looking forward to completing Furious Pursuit, just to see how I too can believe that God will never let me go.
Posted at 6:34 pm
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