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Triskal
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Date Joined Jul 2001
Total Posts : 198

Posted 3/8/2003 6:08 PM (GMT -6)

Hey Everyone,

First i'd just like to take a moment to apologize for being absent from the board for such a long time. This has been a tough year of college for me. I've undergone so much stress from school and work that I actually developed an ulcer in my stomach. Good grief, I didn't even think that was possible at my age. Well, it's spring break now, so I hope to continue posting on here. For a while this message board provided a great source of fellowship and lively debate. Maybe that is what i've been lacking in the last couple of months? Anyways, it's good to be back. I missed you all!

That said, now on to my point... if I can still remember it...

I just got done reading two books, back to back, which I thought perfectly complimented eachother. The first book I read was The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning. It went into great length to describe how God loves even the most imperfect, washed up, good-for-nothing sinners of the world. The second book was Messy Spiritualiy by Michael Yaconelli. This book perfectly complimented the previous one because it told of how our imperfection actually frees us up to be loved by God. Although neither book was what anyone here would consider a "scholarly" work, they were both very practical and inspiring. The first book mentioned is written by a recovering alcohaulic, so he really does know what it means to be loved even in the worst of conditions.

I very highly recommend both books to anyone here who really feels like they're a messy old ragamuffin, who just can't seem to do anything right. I know that describes me perfectly!

God bless!

- Matt -

"In Him we live and move and have our being" - Acts 17:28

Springs
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Date Joined Jul 2001
Total Posts : 636

Posted 3/8/2003 6:37 PM (GMT -6)

Hi Triskal,
It's good to have you back. It sounds like you have been busy.
I like the Ragamuffin gospel too. One of the last novels I read, even tho it was for guys, was Wild at Heart. But for now I'm reading a lot of school books too.
Happy Spring break!

-S

Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. - Friar Laurence. - Shakespeare

honorman
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Date Joined Oct 2002
Total Posts : 1137

Posted 3/8/2003 6:53 PM (GMT -6)

They are great books. Ruthless Trust is also excellant and A Dangerous Wonder by Michael. Great authors!

Triskal
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Date Joined Jul 2001
Total Posts : 198

Posted 3/8/2003 7:01 PM (GMT -6)

quote:

They are great books. Ruthless Trust is also excellant and A Dangerous Wonder by Michael. Great authors!

I heard about A Dangerous Wonder and have been meaning to pick up a copy of it. Someone told me that it greatly resembles The Sacred Romance in a number of ways. Did you think that at all?

Springs,
Thanks for the welcome. Wild At Heart is one of my all-time favorite books. I plan to re-read it this summer for the fourth time. There are so many wonderful points in that book that it's impossible to get them all in one reading.

- Matt -

"In Him we live and move and have our being" - Acts 17:28

fyodor
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Date Joined Dec 2002
Total Posts : 179

Posted 3/9/2003 7:57 AM (GMT -6)

Ragamuffin Gospel made me weep like a child. I think I've read it 5 or 6 times. My favorite line, "Nobody is too screwed up for God to use." I became a christian a few hours after hearing Brennan Manning speak.

It's a great intro or reintro into the profound love of God for us....

†††"To have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession, an infinite concession, given to man, but it is also eternity's claim upon him." – S. Kierkegaard

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