The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us through the Events in Our Lives by Ravi Zacharias Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us through the Events in Our Lives
Book Review: A Great Book on Perspective
Summary: 4 Stars
In this relatively short book, Ravi Zacharias does a very good job at helping one gain some perspective.
He examines eight different areas and gives examples of how those are woven into a life of meaning by God (The Grand Weaver). There are various stories to illustrate his points and the overall book is a real gem.
Shortly after I got into this book, I was telling one of my friends about it and offering to loan it to him. Now that I am done with it, I am thinking that I will have to buy another copy of it if I'm going to loan it out. This is a book that I plan to read and reread. It is one of those that is a very important contribution to one's Christian worldview.
Book Review: Encouraging Read
Summary: 5 Stars
This book seemed a bit different from some of Ravi's others - more personal somehow. I appreciated his anecdotes, and how he based his words on Scripture. You come away encouraged, but also challenged to look for God's work in your life. Buy it!!Book Review: Excellent Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great work from Ravi. This is a good book to help one understand Christianity writen by a great intellect. I highly recommend it for anyone trying to make sense out of his or her life.Book Review: Excellent Reflective Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Zacharias starts and ends this book with the death bed experience. It's an inevitable event no one can avoid. Everyone will die. Preparing for it is only logical. In "The Grand Weaver," Dr. Zacharias reminds Christians that all things come together colletively for a specific purpose, i.e., God's glory. As a mature teacher, he points out that frequently one cannot process an experience until after the fact--sometimes quite a long time after the fact. Some incidents might not make sense at all in this lifetime. On the other side, however..."Everything I experience and feel before I arrive at that heavenly home amounts to mere analogy."
He writes an enlightening segment on distractions, noting..."The bane of our lives is getting sidetracked into secondary pursuits." An antidote to this is to capture specificity by writing down your purpose. That way activites can be ascertained as to their validity.
God's Word indicates that He wants us to know His will. Dr. Zacharais drives this point home in discussing the two-way nature of prayer. He goes on to talk about the fallacy of busyness in superficial "worship" as contrasted with heartfelt worship.
Chapter 5 deals with three phoney types of spirituality, traditionalism, legalism, and superstitution. Each is addressed in a clear way from the perspective of Jesus. The whole book is an extremely valuable tool for helping you to live the well-reflected life that leads to living abundantly and on target.
Being an extensive traveler who is knowledgeable on all the world's major religions, the author authoritative defends his reasons for believing the claims of Jesus Christ. The myth of "all religions basically teaching the same thing" is eloquently refuted. After reading that section of the book you realize anyone who makes such a statment is ignorant. This is a very inspiring contribution to the life of any inquiring reader.
Book Review: God Behind the Scenes
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a tamer Ravi, if you will. Great stories to illustrate the truths of each chapter.
Ravi weaves Scripture and stories wonderfully together. Get this book and read it, for you owe it to yourself.