Redeeming Love is a Must Read

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	• Redeeming Love Drive Time Audio(tm) Francine Rivers Multnomah Books, 2001 average customer review:based on 550 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not your average romance

First I have to say that this is one of the best books I have ever read.
Francine Rivers is an amazing Christian writer. She is not preachy at all (and if you think she is then please don't read anybody like Lori Wick!).

2nd- This is a GRAPHIC book. It's not for young readers. Just because it's Christian doesn't mean it's light hearted! This is a tough book to get through! There are some dark scenes and you feel a little dragged through the mud- but, oh, it's worth it! And this is NOT a typical romance. It's a story of true love, real love..... and not in what usually fills the pages of typical romance books.

3rd- Reviewers on here who say this is unrealistic crack me up because this story is just a more present day (late 1800's) version of the book of Hosea in the Bible. And I don't want to get too theological on the reviewers who didn't like that God's voice was so audible instead of quoting direct Scripture... but read Hosea and that's why Rivers wrote that way. God was audible to His people then.

4th- If you're not a Christian, you probably won't like the book. Just a guess, but I want to be honest. I LOVED the book, but I wouldn't recommend it to my friends who aren't believers.

5th- If you are a Christian, then read this book putting yourself in place of Angel's character, and your sin in place of her prostitution. This is why people are encouraged by this book. Because even though Angel keeps going back to such a disgusting and vile choice of prostitution after she's married.... we keep going back to our disgusting sin after we're married to Christ. What's encouraging is the GRACE that's from Michael's character, and how we can relate that to how much God forgives us.

It's a beautiful book that I sobbed through and have recommended to many of my friends. I can't wait to read more from Rivers.

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Inspiring read

I looked forward to cracking this book open each day. A beautiful and inspiring love story. My only complaint is some of the language used among the characters seemed a bit watered down. Just because this is a Christian novel doesn't mean it should be watered down! I would recommend this book to others.

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Redeeming Love is a Must Read

Unconditional love and acceptance. Who doesn't want that? But we need reminders of what real love looks like, acts like, and feels like. "Redeeming Love" was amazing, an excellent example of Christ's love for each of us through the Hosea character, Michael. He kept pursuing her, though she fled. He kept loving her, though she did not return his love. But Love won! Read this and remember real love.

Jackie Johnson
Author, Power Prayers for Women

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Excellent... Superb even!

I started reading this a couple weeks ago, at the recommendation of my 16 year old daughter. Honestly, I was disturbed and upset reading the first 30 or so pages. I handed it back to my daughter on the brink of tears, telling her that I didn't have the heart to read anything that victimized children. She begged me to continue reading it, assuring me that the 'it gets better' and that it was her most favorite book and it would be mine too. I picked it up again yesterday and finished it before the sun went down. She was absolutely right. There were parts of it that I struggled with, because it brought me to places I prefer not to think actually exist, but in reality I know do. Without giving too much away, there were times when I was frustrated with 'Angel's' behavior and didn't understand how she could run away from a man who loved her so completely.

This book is a beautiful example of God's unconditional love.

I give this two huge thumbs up!!

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Reedeming Love

This book is amazing! It actually seems to come alive as your reading it, almost as if your watching a movie unfold! The first time I finished reading it, I actually went online and bought one for all of my friends and family and they were ALL touched by it as well!

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Can God?s Love Save Anyone?

Bestselling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea in a tale set against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly man sent into Angel?s life to draw her into the Savior?s redeeming love. This remarkable novel has sold over a million copies and is among the top twenty on the ECPA fiction bestsellers list for four years running. A six-part study guide, suitable for individual use or group discussion, is included in this bestselling novel.

ALSO AVAILABLE: Now own this beloved classic in the keepsake hardcover edition!

California?s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep.

Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.

Then she meets Michael Hosea.

A man who seeks his Father?s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God?s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel?s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband?s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does?the One who will never let her go.

A powerful retelling of the book of Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God?s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.

Story Behind the Book

?Writing Redeeming Love was a form of worship for me. Through it, I was able to thank God for loving me even when I was defiant, rebellious, contemptuous of what I thought being a Christian meant, and afraid to give my heart away. I had wanted to be my own god and have control of my life the way Eve did in the Garden of Eden. Now I know to be loved by Christ is the ultimate joy and fulfillment. Everything in Redeeming Love was a gift from the Lord: plot, characters, theme. None of it is mine to claim.?

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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