I am reading Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. Interesting book, I understand that it is a book based on his life, etc. However, Donald Miller shares his opinion or as the tag line on the book calls it, “Nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality.” throughout the book, I am not sure that I can embrace all of his opinions or thoughts, yet I am impressed with a majority of what I have read. The book is an easy read, it is interesting, there are some funny parts, and it is challenging, a great recipe for a book to keep my attention. Today, I read chapter 10, titled “Belief.” Here are a couple of quotes that stood out to me…you may have heard them before or even been introduced to the main thoughts, but it serves as a great reminder!
“What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.””Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.”
And just in case my regular readers are wondering. I did not start this book without finishing the two others that I had already started…Hey I’m on a roll.
We started “When God’s People Pray” series in Sunday School and then I made the connection that Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire was written by Cymbala too, so I checked it out… (you are very influential, see) I remember mom reading something too about Brooklyn Tab that she loved and the video series has been good. I am at Chp2-plan to get the other Fresh books after this.
You could start a whole book review column at this rate!
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