The Return

Review: Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better Brant Hansen W Publishing Group 2015   What! Is that a real word? Unoffendable?   It is now if it wasn’t before.   And one that needs to hang around.   Hansen has found a single change that could make all of life better.   In chapter after chapter he makes his case for being unoffendable.   Sometimes it looks like humility, and then it could look like forgiveness.   Other forms it could take are obedience and love.    We know all those words so what is Hansen’s point?   His point is that anger in whatever form has to go.   All the time.   Every time.   No exceptions.   He looks at all the “but, what about…” angles and doesn’t miss very many of them.   Each time the answer is be unoffendable and it isn’t his idea.   It is Biblical.   Don’t believe that?  Read this book.   “It’s not fair!” is even off ...

Rechurch Stephen Mansfield 2010 BarnaBooks, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers If you have been burned or otherwise suffered a church hurt and if you like the pain and suffering you’ve been experiencing don’t bother with this particular book. If on the other hand you want to be whole again and able to rejoin the people of God without looking over your shoulder all the time this book can help you immensely. The author is firm in his approach. Sometimes he comes across a bit more strongly than most of us are used to hearing. Keep going, though. He uses examples from his own experience, which could not have been easy for him, and people from history, some of whom surprised me. Even the “super saints” dealt with the church hurt issues. Throughout the book the author provides various exercises to work through that pave the way to the following steps and eventually to healing and finally wholeness. I especially appreciated some of the discussion related to forgiveness. I thought...