It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy by Thomas Nelson

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It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy by Thomas Nelson Inappropriate Joking, Shallow, My First Max Lucado Book Will Be My Last
Somehow, I've managed to be a Christian for over a decade without ever reading a book by Max Lucado, though of course, I'm quite familiar with his name. I picked up this book because the subject matter sounded good. Unfortunately, Mr. Lucado's writing, which was full of jokes, often inappropriate, as well as his quoting of The Message Bible (which is not at all faithful to the Word of God), soon turned me away. In addition, he seemed to say the same thing a thousand times and to just be padding the book, which is still only 140 pages! Here's an example of the constant joking: "The moon is happy to do so! [to reflect the glory of the sun] You never hear the moon complaining. She makes no waves about making waves. Let the cow jump over her or astronauts step on her; she never objects. Even though sunning is accepted while mooning is the butt of bad jokes, you won't hear ol' Cheeseface grumble." p 6 I feel the sunning and mooning bit is inappropriate in any context. The example of the moon reflecting the sun's glory was fine, but all of the other joking distracts from his message. And there were numerous other examples in the 27 pages I read of this constant joking. Are you familiar with Psalm 29, which begins (in the NKJV), "Give unto the Lord, O you mighty ones, Give unto the Lord Glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." Well he quotes The Message Bible which begins the psalm, "Bravo, God, braco! Gods and all angels shout, "Encore!" In awe before the glory, in awe before God's visible power. Stand at attention! Dress your best to honor Him!" That is NOT the Word of God! And it doesn't even capture much of the meaning. How does worshipping the Lord in the beauty of holiness become about dressing our best to honor Him????? And those first 27 pages could have been condensed into 4 or 5 once you removed the joking and the constant repetitiveness. Each chapter really felt like a 1-page devotional desperately padded with fluff to make it into a whole chapter. Definitely pass on this book. Maybe other books by this author are more appropriate, but I don't expect to be reading any others to be finding out. I'm very disappointed.
It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy by Thomas Nelson Hard to hold interest
I never really got into this book. May have been me? I found it to be simplistic and slow, never really held my interest. I did finally finish the book, but to be honest, I didn't retain anything of a positive nature.
It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy by Thomas Nelson Soli Deo Gloria
A splendid book, that debunks prosperity ministry's, be happy ministry's, or any other theology puts function of the message above God. Creation is about bringing God the Glory. Church Ministry should be about bringing God the Glory. Christians should be content in God's will. The purpose is not Christian contentment but to bring God the glory. The Church is to bring God Glory; I am to bring the focus to God. Through Salvation of fallen men God is glorified. But even to that end the purpose of `church' is not to preach the word so people accept Jesus as Savior. The purpose of church is to bring God the glory. The author of this book illustrates this fact by demonstrating how man likes to believe he is the center of attention. He argues the earth is not the center of the universe or the galaxy. The earth revolves around the Sun. The moon does not have its own light but reflects the light of the Sun. Christians are to be Son reflectors. Not to show forth their own glory but the glory of Jesus Christ. Jesus brought glory to the Father so are Christians to bring glory to the Son. I used the phrase: Soli Deo Gloria as the title because it represents the phrase of the reformation that best represents this work. This book does not contain Latin phrases and is written so those not well versed in scripture can understand, but it underlying truth is still to God be the glory or to God be the Glory Only.
It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy by Thomas Nelson Ahhhhh the redundancy
I liked this book for about the first twenty or thirty pages. Then I realized that Lucado had nothing else to say, yet he continued on for over one hundred more pages. This book is far too redundant to be worth reading cover to cover.
It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy by Thomas Nelson Wonderful book!
We are using this book in our Sunday School and have had some great discussions! Definitely recommend it to other groups.
It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy by Thomas Nelson Product Description
Pop culture and psychobabble tell us to make ourselves the center of the universe in order to be happy. Churches have communicated the false idea that God exists to give us all that we selfishly want. In this book, Max Lucado reminds us that it's not about us, it's all about God. It is through this shift in thinking that we can truly live an unburdened, happy life.