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« on: July 13, 2005, 11:38:28 AM »
My mother's birthday is coming up and I want to get her a good devotional or otherwise spiritual book. Does anyone have a recommendation? She has already read Blue Like Jazz and Searching For God Knows What, before you Don Miller fans jump in Wink
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2005, 11:54:54 AM »
i recommend "Desiring God" by John Piper.
i've only recently discovered him, but he is an amazingly good teacher.
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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2005, 11:57:20 AM »
My all-time favorite is John Flavel's excellent The Mystery of Providence, but, knowing where your mom stands on the theological spectrum, I'm not sure if it'd be to her liking.  Wink  
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2005, 12:03:58 PM »
Did she like Don? Would she like Brian McLaren?

Anything by Henri Nouwen
'The interior castle' by St. theresa of Avila
Anything by Bonhoeffer
Anything by Buechner
Anything by Richard Foster

 
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« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2005, 12:09:22 PM »
I have a couple of tomes of collected CS Lewis stuff, and there's one book set up in a daily devotional style with excerpts from his writings...or was it mediations on the Psalms...or maybe there are two different ones. anyway, I enjoyed that when I would read it and would even consider getting a more portable single volume if I found one.  
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2005, 12:53:10 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2005, 05:03:57 PM »
oh, interesting. well, maybe something by Chesterton. and I ditto Bonhoeffer. it's been a while but I've read Cost of Discipleship and Life Together, as well as the compilation of his Letters and Papers from Prison.  
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« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2005, 02:48:32 AM »
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Did she like Don? Would she like Brian McLaren?
Getting off-topic...what do those two people have to do with each other?

From what I know of the two, one puts an emphasis on Christianity as a relationship-based belief system, and the other puts an emphasis on post-modern Christianity. Going from one to the other seems like a pretty big leap to me, but maybe I'm missing something here.
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« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2005, 09:28:40 AM »
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Getting off-topic...what do those two people have to do with each other?

From what I know of the two, one puts an emphasis on Christianity as a relationship-based belief system, and the other puts an emphasis on post-modern Christianity. Going from one to the other seems like a pretty big leap to me, but maybe I'm missing something here.
Don's writing style is very post modern style...they both stand for the same things...come on Danny, did you not at least sense that Don is post-modern?

Most of the people I meet who have read Don, are intrigued by his sense of community, justice, and want to know more about his theological stance...it won't be word for word what Brian McLaren says, but it will have alot of the same elements.
 
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« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2005, 12:56:41 AM »
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come on Danny, did you not at least sense that Don is post-modern?
Nope, I didn't sense that at all. I had to giggle when I noticed he wasn't ashamed to still admit to liking King's X in public, but I can't recall anything else that seemed even remotely post-anything to me.  
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« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2005, 07:02:07 AM »
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