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Nearer to God
Eliminate the Spiritual Distance between You and God
Do you feel far from God? Perhaps you desire nearness, but you end up filling your calendar instead of communing with the Savior. Wayman Ming Jr. will show you how daily interruptions are divine opportunities to evaluate your life and close the spiritual gap between you and God. If you have become too comfortable in the daily practice of your faith, or you are on a quest to go deeper, this book will help you draw near to your Creator and pursue His heart with passion as you
· identify and remove obstacles in finding God
· deepen your roots of daily prayer and devotion
· find peace and hope in God's presence amid trials
· develop spiritual rhythms with the Holy Spirit
· hunger for personal revival and spiritual awakening in our culture
God is reforming how we think and act as followers of His Son. The Holy Spirit will empower your full pursuit of what matters most and help you align your life with His plans--for your good!
"While God's 'interruptions' in our lives often do not make sense to us, He desires that we seek Him in all good, bad and ugly. Nearer to God challenges us to see these interruptions as invitations to a closer walk with God."--Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, president, National Hispanic Christian Leadership
Do you feel far from God? Perhaps you desire nearness, but you end up filling your calendar instead of communing with the Savior. Wayman Ming Jr. will show you how daily interruptions are divine opportunities to evaluate your life and close the spiritual gap between you and God. If you have become too comfortable in the daily practice of your faith, or you are on a quest to go deeper, this book will help you draw near to your Creator and pursue His heart with passion as you
· identify and remove obstacles in finding God
· deepen your roots of daily prayer and devotion
· find peace and hope in God's presence amid trials
· develop spiritual rhythms with the Holy Spirit
· hunger for personal revival and spiritual awakening in our culture
God is reforming how we think and act as followers of His Son. The Holy Spirit will empower your full pursuit of what matters most and help you align your life with His plans--for your good!
"While God's 'interruptions' in our lives often do not make sense to us, He desires that we seek Him in all good, bad and ugly. Nearer to God challenges us to see these interruptions as invitations to a closer walk with God."--Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, president, National Hispanic Christian Leadership
208 pages, Paperback
Published July 6, 2021
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March 5, 2024
It caused me think through some important things.
I also learned things!
Dr. Ming's enthusiasm seeps through every page.
I also learned things!
Dr. Ming's enthusiasm seeps through every page.
October 9, 2021
[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Chosen Books in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.]
In theory, this is the sort of book that is easy enough to understand. There are a great number of people who desire intimacy with God and find the gap the exists between God and professed believers to be intense and well worth bridging. In light of the culture that we live in, it is entirely easy to understand the desire for personal revival and peace in light of the problems that our contemporary age faces. People have a longing to go deeper and shake up the comfortable nature of their habits and patterns of worship, and again, in theory there is nothing wrong with that. Where this book sometimes stumbles is in the gap between the author's desire to go deeper and the fact that he is not really a deep person himself, nor does he really appear to understand the Bible very deeply. What results is a fair amount of sloganeering as well as attempts to make the Bible and God relevant by using contemporary language and analogies with technology as a way to stay hip but without maintaining the solid scriptural knowledge that one needs.
That is not to say that this book is not without value. The subject matter of the book is very worthwhile. It is certainly a good thing that people would desire to progress in their spiritual lives and shake up their comfortable habits, although I am by no means hostile to comfortable habits, it must be admitted. It would be worthwhile for us to ponder, as is insufficiently pondered, that in the Bible a great many of those who were offered greater intimacy to God rejected the offer because God's holiness, and God's demands for obedience, were too much to take. And the uniform response of believers to the presence of God and the intimacy of God was a concern for their own well-being in light of their flawed nature. One of the reasons the author demonstrates his lack of depth as a writer is failing to understand that it is our sins that separate us from God, and that God has always longed to be nearer to us, it is just we that are terrified to be close to Him in light of our own awareness of our fallen and imperfect state, if we have any self-knowledge at all.
In theory, this is the sort of book that is easy enough to understand. There are a great number of people who desire intimacy with God and find the gap the exists between God and professed believers to be intense and well worth bridging. In light of the culture that we live in, it is entirely easy to understand the desire for personal revival and peace in light of the problems that our contemporary age faces. People have a longing to go deeper and shake up the comfortable nature of their habits and patterns of worship, and again, in theory there is nothing wrong with that. Where this book sometimes stumbles is in the gap between the author's desire to go deeper and the fact that he is not really a deep person himself, nor does he really appear to understand the Bible very deeply. What results is a fair amount of sloganeering as well as attempts to make the Bible and God relevant by using contemporary language and analogies with technology as a way to stay hip but without maintaining the solid scriptural knowledge that one needs.
That is not to say that this book is not without value. The subject matter of the book is very worthwhile. It is certainly a good thing that people would desire to progress in their spiritual lives and shake up their comfortable habits, although I am by no means hostile to comfortable habits, it must be admitted. It would be worthwhile for us to ponder, as is insufficiently pondered, that in the Bible a great many of those who were offered greater intimacy to God rejected the offer because God's holiness, and God's demands for obedience, were too much to take. And the uniform response of believers to the presence of God and the intimacy of God was a concern for their own well-being in light of their flawed nature. One of the reasons the author demonstrates his lack of depth as a writer is failing to understand that it is our sins that separate us from God, and that God has always longed to be nearer to us, it is just we that are terrified to be close to Him in light of our own awareness of our fallen and imperfect state, if we have any self-knowledge at all.
January 11, 2022
Closing the God Gap!
PLEASE READ THIS REVIEW ON MY BLOG: http://bookreadingtic.com/2022/01/11/... THANK YOU!
Do you feel a distance between God and yourself? Do you wish to feel closer to Him? God often tries to close that gap using things that are currently going on in our lives. This is especially true of tragic times such as the pandemic or Hurricane Katrina. Even though God did not cause them, He will use those things to draw us closer to Him.
However, it is a two-way street. God may try to get our attention, but what is our response to Him? Do we even notice His effort to get closer? Or are we too involved in keeping ourselves over-booked and busy to notice?
The author suggests turning to God all the time, but especially during difficult periods. Often, we will find that He was there trying to make contact with us, and pull us through trying times. I recommend this 4-star book to anyone who wants to feel closer to God.
Chosen Books has provided Tickmenot with a complimentary copy of, Nearer to God, for the purpose of review.
PLEASE READ THIS REVIEW ON MY BLOG: http://bookreadingtic.com/2022/01/11/... THANK YOU!
Do you feel a distance between God and yourself? Do you wish to feel closer to Him? God often tries to close that gap using things that are currently going on in our lives. This is especially true of tragic times such as the pandemic or Hurricane Katrina. Even though God did not cause them, He will use those things to draw us closer to Him.
However, it is a two-way street. God may try to get our attention, but what is our response to Him? Do we even notice His effort to get closer? Or are we too involved in keeping ourselves over-booked and busy to notice?
The author suggests turning to God all the time, but especially during difficult periods. Often, we will find that He was there trying to make contact with us, and pull us through trying times. I recommend this 4-star book to anyone who wants to feel closer to God.
Chosen Books has provided Tickmenot with a complimentary copy of, Nearer to God, for the purpose of review.
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