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Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity (Living Well)

1 review
Marva J. Dawn

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2008

NBrown
I feel as if I have a new friend in Marva Dawn. I have been struggling with chronic pain and illness for seven years. This is extremely challenging to me in so many ways including my faith life. This book brought me renewed faith and hope as I read the author's story and how she has lived out her own challenges. She brings truth to the lies we sometimes believe about ourselves and concrete ideas ...

Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture

17 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995

Don't Let Worship Be Flushed Down America's Cultural Toilet
This book, along with Thomas Long's "Beyond the Worship Wars" is a must read for all committed Christians, particularly those who are worried about where both Christ-centered worship and church membership numbers are headed in the current wasteland of contemporary culture. Dawn goes into how we got into the current cultural mess in our society, though given the book's age it is a bit dated as ...

The Sense of the Call: A Sabbath Way of Life for Those Who Serve God, the Church, and the World

2 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006

A Pragmatic Call to Sabbath
As a person in ministry though not a pastor, I found this book extremely helpful in addressing the way many of us in ministry "work" for God but forget to "be" with God. The call to observe Sabbath well is part of our call to ministry and Dr. Dawn has some excellent thoughts here. I loved her sections on restful living and prayer - learning to rest in grace. She considers the blocks to prayer ...

The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible (Protestant Edition)

18 reviews
Inc. Renovare, Richard J. Foster, ...

Harper San Francisco, 2006

What a pleaure
Having this provides one with a fine translation and solid opportunity for interpretation and application. I was leary about the last part, since often that can be sappy. Not so here. Selecting a Bible is hard. I have decided that for me, a hard bound book is best and worth any extra cost. Get one like this and add tabs. It is one big book. Shortcoming: No index. But with so much ...

Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God

3 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001

Engrossing, illuminating, convicting, encouraging!
I never thought a book could be so good. Marva has given me (1) the overall scheme of the demonic and how they work in the world; (2) a better understanding of my own frustrations with involvement in church; (3) a better focus on where to direct my energies in living the life of a believer in Christ. It is my firm people that this bok should be required reading for every pastor, a reading ...

Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting

8 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989

A good "how-to" book
Finally a Sabbath book that doesn't seek to convince one of which day should be kept as the Sabbath, but focusses instead on HOW to keep the Sabbath. The book is broken into four major parts - ceasing, resting, embracing, and feasting. Each of those chapter breaks its subject down into seven areas. For example, the section on resting covers physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and ...

The Unnecessary Pastor: Rediscovering the Call

7 reviews
Marva J. Dawn, Eugene H. Peterson

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999

Masterful Challange
Again Peterson exemplifies the heart of the true pastor. This is my first time reading Marva Dawn. I just finished this book and found much to help me in the midst of being a small rural church pastor. I was surprised by the review by the reader in Ohio. Although the other works by Peterson, flow better, the dialogue between Dawn and Peterson was refreshing. Ephesians is the classic source ...

Truly the Community: Romans 12 and How to Be the Church
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997

Author-educator-theologian Marva Dawn looks to the twelfth chapter of the book of Romans for a blueprint for establishing the contours of community in the Christian church, a biblical ideal rarely achieved in our individualistic society.

Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society

2 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Westminster John Knox Press, 2003

Hope for a hurting world
This is a book which excites and stirs. It animates and illuminates my hearts desire to become both authentically human and faithfully Christian, my yearning to have a faith which truly transforms my life and the community I'm part of, my craving for a faith which integrates a world fragmented by injustice and division. Eugene Peterson writes that Marva Dawn's new book contains, " clarifying, ...

A Royal "Waste" of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

6 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999

Beyond Singing
Those who have read anything by Marva Dawn will love "A Royal 'Waste' of Time." Those who aren't familiar with her work are in for a book that is very compelling and challenging. This book isn't merely about worship singing; it is about being a church community centered on the worship of an Infinite God. The book articulates a missional ecclesiology focused on biblical worship that engages the ...

Joy in Divine Wisdom: Practices of Discernment from Other Cultures and Christian Traditions (Enduring ...

1 review
Marva J. Dawn

Jossey-Bass, 2006

Joy in Divine Wisdom
JOY IN DIVINE WISDOM Marva Dawn, Joy in Divine Wisdom: Practices of Discernment from Other Cultures and Christian Traditions (Wiley, 2006). How is one supposed to make wise decisions in difficult situations? What is 'God's will' for my life? Wise discernment is a very valuable tool for Christian living - or any kind of living for that matter. Problem is, in Western individualistic ...

Morning by Morning: Daily Meditations from the Writings of Marva J. Dawn
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001

Marva Dawn is known throughout the world for her best-selling devotional and theological books and her popular lectures on worship, ministry, and church and family life. Morning by Morning takes readers through a year of daily devotional readings selected from the best, most inspiring passages of Dawn's writings. Each meditation opens with a Bible verse or line from a favorite hymn and then offers reflections drawn from Dawn's books or ...

I'm Lonely, Lord, How Long: Meditations on the Psalms
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998

Out of her own painful experience with loneliness and suffering, Marva Dawn has written this book of meditations on the Psalms. This new edition offers comfort, guidance, and answers to some of the most troubling questions which those who are suffering face.

Sexual Character: Beyond Technique to Intimacy

3 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993

The heart of intimacy
I have always thought that there should be bumper stickers that say "Christians make the best lovers". This book would be a defense of that statement. Marva Dawn uses her skills as a biblical scholar, counselor, and insightful commentator on the human condition to write a book that shows that we are not creatues that "have sex", but rather are sexual creatures. THis is a good thing, says Dawn, ...

To Walk and Not Faint: A Month of Meditations on Isaiah 40
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997

Joy in Our Weakness: A Gift of Hope from the Book of Revelation

2 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002

perfect for reading and studying together
Reading this book with a friend of mine who is a quadriplegic was tremendous! Marva made sense of what can be a perplexing book of the Bible, beautifully addressing the also-perplexing life of suffering, with a message of hope for us both. The short chapters with real-life tie-ins were ideal in conveying a message that launched our dialogue after reading it. A wonderfully practical message ...

Is It a Lost Cause?: Having the Heart of God for the Church's Children

5 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997

Viable alternative to raising kids in an amoral society
Written from a Christian perspective, this book has something to say to both Christians and non-Christians who are seriously concerned at the way our children are being raised (or more aptly destroyed) by modern "post-Christian" culture. Marva Dawn correctly assesses the threats to the well being of our children and offers the best way to counteract such influences. Mrs. Dawn rightly focuses ...

My Soul Waits: Solace for the Lonely in the Psalms

2 reviews
Marva J. Dawn

IVP Books, 2007

hey, whad du yu want?
I'm gonna give this book a chance and order it in spite of the one star review. I cannot imagine why you would be looking for the book to champion "forgiveness" in the first place. Obviously the author is trying to help free people who are bitter to relate to the Psalm's cries of bitter suffering and then apply the balm in those passages to their hurts. The need to forgive others seems a pretty ...

Daring to Draw Near: People in Prayer (Ivp Classics)

4 reviews
John White

IVP Books, 2008

A fresh look at prayer
Much of the current attitude about prayer left me confused and discouraged, leading me to believe that prayer changes God and that I simply need to "pray harder" if I'm struggling. Mr. White's book, however, by looking at prayers recorded in the Bible, reaffirmed that our prayers are an important response to an unchanging God. Rather than taking a flippant view of the struggles behind some ...

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