God's Two-Minute Warning

by John Hagee

In our sports-saturated culture, we are all familiar with the two-minute warning-a signal to players and coaches that the game is nearing the end. . . 120 clicks left on the clock to attempt any last-minute stratagem that will determine victory or defeat. God's Two-Minute Warning is a collection of 33 vignettes by Pastor John Hagee, weaving together biblical passages with dramatic, life-changing stories on meaningful topics.

Genres: Christian

136 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 2000

About the author

Pastor John Hagee and his wife Diana reach out and spread Christ's message throughout the Northern Hemisphere. They reside in San Antonio, Texas with their five adult children, their spouses and grandchildren.

Paster John Hagee is a scholar, musician, athlete, evangelist, and above all, a pastor with a pastor's heart. A fourth-generation preacher in the tradition of his father and grandfathers before him, Pastor Hagee not only shepherds the 17, 000 member, nondenominational Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, he is pastor to other pastors around the country.

John Hagee Ministries produces three television programs. Cornerstone is a weekly broadcast of the Sunday morning service at Cornerstone Church. John Hagee Today is a teaching program aired Monday through Friday. SundayNightLive is a live-via-satellite broadcast of the Sunday evening service from Cornerstone Church that can be seen in over 93 million homes.

Author to several books, Pastor Hagee is a dynamic conference speaker whose straightforward style of preaching, laced wit humour, brings refreshing biblical insight to contemporary problems.

Reviews

[Mary Ellin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read a lot of books on faith; this one is fair-to-middling. A little preachy, a little oversimplified (as books of just 136 pages are wont to be) and a little too dependent on using scripture to make a point; all that said, there are gems within if you’re willing to find them. The chapter on parenting initially turned me off because of the dismissive commentary against Dr. Spock and the focus on fathers as the head of the house, but wait! There’s some good advice in there. Same with Chapter 18, Trusting through Trouble, and Chapter 10 on communicating in marriage. For as skinny a book as this is, it took me surprisingly long to finish it (about a week). I wouldn’t recommend it for any but the most avid readers of faith-based literature, those willing to press on to finish and sift for the occasional bit of wisdom.

[Penny McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you’re looking for a quick, easy to understand & relevant to today’s world, book I say grab this little gem. I broke down the 21 chapters into a chapter a day as part of my morning devotional time. Lots of good stuff here!

[Christopher Lewis Kozoriz · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Hope gives you the ability to be happy with what you have while working for what you want." ~ John Hagee, God's Two-Minute Warning, page 109

Many different topics are studied in this book. I particularly liked the chapter entitled, "Worry Is A Rat". John tells a story in this chapter which I will excerpt below that will change our thinking about worry:

"I read a story of an aviator who flew around the world. He stopped every few hours at selected landing fields to refuel. On one leg of his journey, two hours from his selected landing field and exactly halfway from his destination, he heard a noise in his plan that he recognized as the gnawing of a rat.

Not knowing which delicate indicators might be destroyed by the sharp teeth of the rat, the pilot began to worry. Then he remembered that rats are rodents and that they do not function well at heights. A rat is made to live on the ground and in dark holes. Consequently, the pilot pointed his plane higher and higher, until the gnawing stopped. Two hours later, when he landed safely, a dead rat fell out of the cockpit.

The way to kill off your worries is to take your life up a notch. Keep your eyes on Jesus, keep pressing onward and upward, trusting His as you go higher and higher. As you focus on Christ, the "rats" that are trying to eat away at your peace and security will drop off one by one. Your worries will not survive."

There you go! The solution to stop worry is to keep going higher and higher. Develop yourself more and more and the worry will fall of your life like lint on your jacket.