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In his book Waking the Dead, best-selling author John Eldredge reveals that things are not what they seem; this is a world at war; and you have a crucial role to play. In this guidebook, Eldredge takes you even deeper into the hidden meanings of this world-giving you the courage to rise up and reclaim your heart as you fight for the hearts and souls of others.
Packed with questions, stories, and discussion topics, you'll discover the glory of a heart fully alive through features such as:
- Big Ideas-thought-provoking concepts that will challenge you to grow daily and excel as a cherished child of God;
- Mythic Parables-classic stories from Scripture as well as fairy tales, old and new; and
- Heart Monitors-barometers for evaluating your own feelings, struggles, and passions.
No matter what you've known so far, Eldredge insists, "There is more available with God. There is so much more."
Customer Reviews:
awesome book to go deeper!.......2007-06-27
This guidebook really guides you getting deeper into the material. Personal Notes from John and Craig give you a view of their lifes. Good personal questions that invite to think about and lead on a journey.
Really great stuff!
I highly recommand it!
Norbert, Germany
Excellent Resource.......2007-02-03
This book is co-written with Craig McConnell. It is a good book that will help you take Waking the Dead to a whole new level. It follows the book chapter by chapter and is in a nice easy format to use. Each chapter begins and ends with a check on 'Where is your heart now?' Kind of checking in on where you are. When I worked through this with my buddy Pastor Bob, this was our check in where we were. While working through this, we both went through hard times; I lost a job I loved and his wife was let go and spent a long time off of work, right after they bought a new house. This book helped us process those events and many others in our presents and our pasts.
This workbook has fewer subsections than the Wild At Heart Field Manual, The areas are the:
· Heart Monitor
· A First Reaction
· The Big Ideas
It used pillows/clouds for Big Ideas to outline where the chapter will go and then has sections for each. To Clarify goes deeper than the book on specific points or outlines them in a deeper level.
As a workbook there is lots of space for answers, even going back and writing answers again and again, each time you work through it. Bob liked a new feature and I did not, for some of the tougher questions have examples from members of the Ransomed Heart team. Bob liked those because they gave you more food-for-thought when you were unsure how to answer. I found them annoying because I often took the question a different direction they did, and if I read them first, it often limited how I perceived the questions.
Overall this book is an excellent resource for working with the book Waking the Dead and for growing into a deeper understanding of your life in Christ.
good companion to the book.......2006-11-10
This journal is a great companion to the book "Waking the Dead." Upon first reading the book I wasn't completely captured by it, but the journal really explores the book in a deeper way - great for group discussion or individually.
thinking someone picked some green sour grapes back there.......2005-02-05
I read Wild at Heart when it first came out even though I'm a woman. I'm a wild-at-heart woman who knows that the Lord desires to have us "run with abandon" toward Him. This book was inspiring even with some gender distractions ... I might recommmend that the person who read this book and deemed it worthless might back up if s/he is really seeking an exciting relationship with the Lord and read Divine Romance or Journey of the Heart and be daring enough to let The Lover look into his heart!
Great guidebook.......2004-06-28
I love this book...and the guidebook. This isn't a typical study guide that asks obvious questions that can be easily discerned from just reading the text. It's not a "mindlessly answer the questions" kind of guidebook. No, this one makes one think...and causes one to digest and process the lifechanging truths in the book. I personally enjoyed reading the authors sharing their hearts because it made me feel "normal"...and it made the authors feel human. This book and guidebook are among my most favorite books and most lifechanging.
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Is there a higher power in the universe? What happens to us when we die? Leading physicist Frank J. Tipler tackles these questions and more in an astonishing and profoundly important book that scientifically proves the existence of God and the physical resurrection of the dead.
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Insurmountable Blabberdash.......2007-08-06
A collection of poorly edited lines of arguement that go off at a tangent to each other. The relationships between the different ideas are barely demonstrated and proven properly before the synthesized new idea is used as a launching-pad for another discussion on another 'breath-taking' idea. He does not address many of the fundamental issues of religion. He also does not elucidate his definition of 'God', which handicaps my understanding of his point of view, and therefore, the intention of the whole book.
Very well-educated, full-tilt lunatic.......2007-05-12
This book is different. Its author is a very well educated scientist. He makes what appears, page to page, to be a logical and scientific argument in favor of the immortality of the soul. The book has many entertaining moments, and it is certainly an intriguing brain teaser.
However, I am sorry, in the end, it is just a really up-market version of Elvis in the UFOS. This guy is flat out nuts. And his argument does not really connect science with religion in any recognizabler manner. Rather, it is a weirdly personal vision of how, at end of the Universe, when everything is crunching into the opposite of the Big Bang, giant computers in the sky will virtually replicate all of us, as software on their infinite hardware. Kind of the Book of Revelations, re-written by a geek, with all the poetry taken out of it.
Like I said, the guy is nuts. He makes one logical leap after another, and goes off to a conclusion that just makes no sense. He is absolutely ignorant of the religious and theological literature. What he is basically doing is making a highly personal argument, based upon his own speculations which were loosely inspired by some of science's recent findings. Not really worth reading, unless you have a taste for well educated lunatics making weird arguments.
unmitigated drivel.......2007-04-14
The science fiction religion that Frank Tipler invented in this book is as puerile and Alice-in-Wonderland as the science fiction religion invented a generation ago by L. Ron Hubbard for the avowed purpose of parting fools from their money. But unlike Hubbard, Tipler is not a conscious humbug peddling whatever Big Lie the gullible will swallow. He appears to believe that his undisciplined speculation is a plausible extrapolation of the laws of physics.
As far as I can determine, Tipler's book is written in English. At least, the individual words are English. But they are put together in a manner reminiscent of the gibberish Evangelicals tout as "speaking in tongues."
According to Tipler (page 1), "I shall show clearly how physics will permit the resurrection to eternal life of everyone who has lived, is living, and will live." If any reader believes that Tipler succeeded in doing that, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn that I think will interest him. Tipler reaches the conclusion that physics proves the existence of God by starting from the assumption that physics proves the existence of God. Even such other peddlers of pseudoscientific theobabble as William Dembski and Michael Behe have refrained from endorsing Tipler's mushroom fantasy.
Tipler's Imagination Crosses the Universe.......2007-01-16
This book may stretch plausibility a little but it has some good practical suggestions for colonising the universe in the future. Sending a 100g universal constructor and computer together with Earthly genetic material at 0.9c to neighbouring star systems and beyond is appealing, but a little further in the future than anticipated in the book. What are the chances that a von Neuman probe as described will survive such a journey to a neighbouring star through the interstellar medium? Every (atomic) particle it encounters will appear as a cosmic ray, let alone small specks of dust! Something more is needed to solve this problem. I believe also that Dr Tippler's contention that there are no other living species out there is probably incorrect, and he therefore falls into the human-centric theories and assertions of old. Nevertheless, a good read, with its main contribution being speculative means of survival and proliferation in a future universe.
A Loooong string of "if's".......2006-10-05
The thesis in this book is that God (aka "the Omega Point" - an omniscient entity reminiscent of "Vger" in Star Trek) does not currently exist (but will develop at some point in the future) and will choose to replicate (emulate) exact duplicates of every human who has ever lived, in a virtual-reality Heaven. I made a list of the "if's" mentioned in this book, that all have to happen for this to occur:
IF
*strong (indistinguishable from human) artificial intelligence is possible
AND IF
*we can develop self-replicating interstellar probes
AND IF
*humans can be completely grown/raised/educated from stored DNA
AND IF
*on every planet, these seeded human colonists accept the destiny we assigned to them
AND IF
*nanotechnology is developed
AND IF
*250-gigwatt lasers are feasible
AND IF
*cost of materials relative to wages drops exponentially every 50 years
AND IF
*antimatter exists, can be feasibly manufactured, and harnessed as a means of propulsion
AND IF
*the universe is closed (will eventually contract)
AND IF
*a virtual "emulation" of a person in a computer is the same "consciousness" as the original person
AND IF
*all information in the physical universe can be retrieved without loss or distortion
AND IF
*a simulation of a living being also recreates perfectly its unexpressed internal states
AND IF
*emulations of every person in history can be made without also re-creating their diseases, conflicting ideologies, etc.
AND IF
*the cost of doing good is not significantly greater than the cost of doing evil, then an omniscient entity will choose the good
AND IF
*intelligent beings in the far future will have the desire to resurrect us to a life we will enjoy
THEN
on this basis, we might have hope of eternal life, "heaven," and a benevolent god.
If the thesis of this book is true, it won't matter what you believed anyway - resurrection is inevitable/inescapable. But personally I'm not going to bank my eternal existence on all these dice rolling the right way, billions of millenia from now. In my view, this requires much more "faith" than simply trusting in the conventional claim of Christianity...In my opinion, "Pascal's Wager" is a much better bet.
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Christianity in the democracies of the 'first' world has been declining in power, popularity and prestige for a century. However, many commentators, social scientists as well as church leaders, try and minimize the extent of this change. They maintain that religious sentiment remains strong despite declining levels of church involvement, and insist that secularization is an academic myth.In this robust defense of the secularization paradigm, Bruce elaborates just what Weber, Durkheim, Berger and Wilson thought was happening to religion in the West, and responds to critics of this concept. Specific topics covered include the significance of New Age spirituality, the influence of eastern religions on the West, the impact of science, the charismatic movement, religion and politics in the USA, and the future of religion.Bruce concludes the old orthodoxy was right: cultural diversity, in egalitarian and liberal democracies that place the individual above the community, undermines religious belief. Drawing on a diverse range of international examples, and written by one of the foremost sociologists of religion working today, God is Dead moves the debate about secularization forward. It will be an invaluable resource for students of sociology of religion, modern religion, Christianity, new religious movements and religion and culture.
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Meticulously argumented theory/idea.......2007-04-23
Just a quick review: The first chapter is Bruce explaining the secularization theory (paradigm, idea, whatever). He uses a graph to illustrate this. It is very intricate and complex, but he explains each part very clearly. The rest of the book is basically him refuting any opposition the theory faces - chapter by chapter. He states what people often argue, state what they don't understand about the theory (which they obviously must NOT understand, or else they wouldn't be arguing, or so he'd say ;) and then state how what they're saying isn't true. It is a complicated book, and you may not agree with it (MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE THEORY COMPLETELY BEFORE DISAGREEING, its not as theo-bashing as it may sound!) but it is interesting, well done, and relevent to today.
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The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band.
The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their latest record—setting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the Rolling Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas, and descents into madness and death_while steadfastly refusing to fade away. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Walk This Way, who has followed the Stones for three decades, presents their whole story, replete with vivid details of the Stones’ musical successes_and personal excesses.
Born into the wartime England of air-raid sirens, bombing raids, and strict rationing, the Rolling Stones came of age in the 1950s, as American blues and pop arrived in Europe. Among London’s most ardent blues fans in the early 1960s was a short blond teenage guitar player named Brian Jones, who hooked up with a lorry driver’s only son, Charlie Watts, a jazz drummer. At the same time, popular and studious Michael Philip Jagger–who, as a boy, bawled out a phonetic version of “La Bamba” with an eye-popping intensity that scared his parents–began sharing blues records with a primary school classmate, Keith “Ricky” Richards, a shy underachiever, whose idol was Chuck Berry. In 1962 the four young men, joined by Bill Perks (later Wyman) on bass, formed a band rhythm and blues band, which Brian Jones named the “the Rollin’ Stones” in honor of the Muddy Waters blues classic.
Using the biography of the Rolling Stones as a narrative spine, Old God Almost Dead builds a new, multilayered version of the Stones’ story, locating the band beyond the musical world they dominated and showing how they influenced, and were influenced by, the other artistic movements of their era: the blues revival, Swinging London, the Beats, Bob Dylan’s Stones-inspired shift from protest to pop, Pop Art and Andy Warhol’s New York, the “Underground” politics of the 1960s, Moroccan energy and European orientalism, Jamaican reggae, the Glam and Punk subcultures, and the technologic advances of the video and digital revolution. At the same time, Old Gods Almost Dead documents the intense backstage lives of the Stones: the feuds, the drugs, the marriages, and the affairs that inspired and informed their songs; and the business of making records and putting on shows.
The first new biography of the Rolling Stones since the early 1980s, Old Gods Almost Dead is the most comprehensive book to date, and one of the few to cover all the band’s members. Illustrated throughout with photos of pivotal moments, it is a celebration of the Rolling Stones as an often courageous, often foolish gang of artists who not only showed us new worlds, but new ways of living in them. It is a saga as raunchily, vibrantly entertaining as the Stones themselves.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Biography of the Rolling Stones.......2007-01-15
This is an excellent in-depth biography of the Stones and their music. It's an easy read, full of interesting information, lots of good photos, and covers the entire career of the bad boys of Rock and Roll from their early days till the time of the book's publication. It is well-researched, balanced, fair to all involved, not overly fawning, and filled with new information I had not read elsewhere. I highly recommend it.
Five stars.
some insight.......2007-01-08
I was required to buy this book for a musicology class focusing on the Rolling Stones at Boston University. We were asked to read pretty much the entire book as supplemental reading along with the class. I like the way the book chronicles the events and feelings of the band throughout their gargantuan career however there are a few things I could have done without. I love the music but the rambling way that Davis describes each album when they released them is not really an easy read. I think that if he had somehow devised a different writing style for these crucial descriptions I would have given the book a full five stars. Nevertheless, its a good read whether you are or are not interested in the Rolling Stones and the pictures are also interesting. Its a good history.
I Got Satisfaction.......2006-11-02
This is the only Stones' book I've read and I plan on reading more, but as a start, I was impressed and feel Davis has written a decent biography of the band. He appears to deal thoroughly with the early years of the band all the way up to the death of Brian Jones. The Mick Taylor years seem a bit rushed (he wasn't there that long, though), in fact, the last two decades of the band seem written hurriedly, but I guess they weren't working nearly as much as they had in their true youth or weren't making as much news.
The details of the interrelationships of Anita Pallenberg, Brian Jones, Keith Richard and Mick Jagger alone would probably make a great book on it's own. I wouldn't mind knowing more about that!
Gimmme BS.......2006-06-21
Worst Stones book I've read in years
Riddleed with innacuracies
Skip this one
Now Look!.......2005-10-11
I don't care what the subject is, you're never going to find one book that will be the end-all. You gotta read everything you can get your hands on & decide for yourself what you wanna believe. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this read on the Rolling Stones. Three fifths of this book concentrates on the Brian Jones period. That's a good thing. Sure, there are some "facts" missing or just plain wrong, but I wasn't there to edit the manuscript for Mr. Davis. Maybe someday we'll get "Old Gods" part 2 & Davis can do a better job on the last 30 years of the band. Read it. Enjoy it. Bring your salt shaker.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent starter and jump off point for more adventures.......2000-03-13
Overall a good adventure as it kills off a few powers of which some are actually well known.
However one part that is diffcult to suspend belief is not that the main villian has such power but also why the egyptian patheon who had access to such power as well did not dominate the planes.
Another sticking point is why the main villian allowed the characters to even penetrate his fortress. If the villian is as crafty as some adventures potray him, he should have easily shown up (through teleport, gate, etc) and blasted any party (including the old 100 level characters from h1-h4) into oblivion.
To combat such obvious logical traps, the dm will probably have to think of some good reasons. After the adventure, though, the party could through their own initiative, attempt ressurection of their favorite power that got killed. The DM could conceivably include any power that the pc clerics worshipped as a casualty for more "exciting" play.
Good for source material, but..........2000-02-11
This adventure was a continuation of events which started in Great Modron March. Like that work, this had the adventures somewhat tangent to the ongoing plot (at least initially). PCs are not likely to fully destroy the big nasty at the end...
My primary reason for giving this product only 3 stars is that I dislike both the basic premise of the background plot as well as its effects. Powers should not be easily destroyed, particularly with a single word. And I like the big nasty the way he was...
The adventures are good, although the epilogue adventure seemed to be added to fill space. The appendix listing of encounters, and color illustrations in the rear were nice touches.
Overall, the source material in this book probably makes it worthwhile, but not essential.
Really good Planescape adventure.......1999-12-08
Dead Gods is an incredible adventure for the Planescape setting. The main adventure brings the characters into the plot slowly, but soon involves them in a epic storyline. The adventure develops slowly, and is done in segments, so that the DM can run other adventures in between. There is also a second adventure included in Dead Gods that is also broken into segments. The DM can intertwine these two for a really good storyline that should last many gaming sessions. Additionally, the adventure can be used as a follow-up to the product "The Great Modron March" for extra intrigue. It is a solid product with a good plot.
OUTRAGEOUS!!!!.......1998-07-02
This adventure is a must for anyone who has either an existing Planescape campaign going or who has place the H1-H4 series in the Forgotten Realms campaign. Linking this to the Tales from the Infinite Staircase and the Great Modron March is a great campaign in itself.
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"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.." This is the book in which Nietzsche put forth his boldest declaration. It is also his most personal, featuring some of the author's most important discussions of art, morality, knowledge, and, ultimately, truth.
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From God\'s golf swing to methods of selling women, these essays will delight while challenging many accepted values of the modern world.
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An invaluable collection of vivid conversion narratives and autobiographies by illiterate but powerfully articulate ex-slaves. GOD STRUCK ME DEAD is a window into the soul of America and its religious history. The narratives were gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive 1930s study on race relations.
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Reveals the Reality of the Experience of the Holy Spirit.......1998-10-15
this is an amazing book, ranking up there with Buber's 'Ecstatic Confessions', Kapleau's 'Three Pillars of Zen', and the 1960's film 'Holy Ghost People', as being a valuable collection of authentic religious experience. Thankfully, African Americans have preserved the experience of the Holy Spirit described in this book in Gospel Music. The traditions described in this book deserve to be revived and preserved, i.e. 'the mourner's bench', and singing in a circle out in a field at night. It seems to me this book helps to show that we are all slaves to the world and society until freed by the holy spirit.
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Best book of the trilogy . . ........2005-01-02
Forbidden is the last novel of the Dead God Trilogy, a series of books in which the protagonist Vladawen, a forsaken elf, seeks to resurrect his god who was murdered 200 years prior in the Divine War (a war between the gods and their creators, the titans). All along the way he is hindered by another god, Belsameth, a deity who takes a keen interest in Vladawen and does whatever she can to impede his mission.
As a finale to the series, this book succeeds in every way. It is written in exactly the same style as the previous two, but it possesses slightly more intrigue and intensity. By now the characters are fully developed, and the reader is wholly immersed in every action and plight they are involved in. The action moves at a blinding pace, so there is little possibility of growing indifferent to the events. Yet even at the quick pace, the book remains easy to follow and understand.
Another positive is the strong setting, a world known as the Scarred Lands. This unique land is not your typical fantasy world. This captivating place offers much variety, an example being the Blood Sea (a sea where a defeated titan from the Divine War lies shackled at the bottom, endlessly bleeding from a mortal wound which turns the waters a crimson red).
While the author, Richard Lee Byers, is certainly competent, one annoyance I have with him is his over-reliance on battles. There are A LOT of battles in each of the three books, many of which could have been skipped altogether, much less written in detail. However, you can always skim through the less important battles if need be.
Overall, this book is an excellent read, and while I feel it's the best of the series, the entire trilogy is well worth reading. Do yourself a favor and read the Dead God Trilogy.
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