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How would you feel if God told you to kill your only child? Would you ignore God? Would you continue to follow God? Would you actually do it? Would you call God crazy? Would you turn your back on God? Just what would you do? This book... [Read on]
I enjoyed this book a great deal. Sweet askes inisightful and deep questions particularly as they relate to Abraham, God and us. There is more to Jesus that just knowing stuff. It also involves knowing people. In a world of Christianity that... [Read on]
A Review of What Matters Most by Leonard Sweet By Adam Koppin What Matters Most: How We Got The Point But Missed The Person, previously released as Out of the Question… Into the Mystery, is a scholarly work by Dr. Leonard Sweet. Sweet is the... [Read on]
When I first picked up this book I wanted to use it as a tool to bring me closer to Christ. And that is exactly what I got. I am new in my faith and am eager to get my hands on everything that I can to help me learn more about the bible. I... [Read on]
I recently received the book One Big Thing by Phil Cooke. The whole purpose of this book is to help others discover what they were meant to do. One Big Thing Phil Cooke mentions, "One Big Thing will help you discover what you were born to... [Read on]
I love Leonard Sweet’s book ‘What Matters Most.’ I would rank it along with the works of Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Mark Buchanan, and Eugene Peterson as being among the top writing on what it means to follow Jesus that is available today. ... [Read on]
As I read through this book, I was thoroughly confused. I’m really not sure if I am just making this book into more than it is or if I truly do not get what Sweet is trying to say. The idea is that we need to have a relationship with Christ. I... [Read on]
WillowBrook Press generously provided me a copy of "what matters most" by Leonard Sweet to read and review. When I received the book I didn’t know it was a reprint of Out of the Question, a book I had read previously. However, it was a Leonard... [Read on]
This rhetorical question captures most of Sweet’s key point, “Is Christianity a proprietary doctrine of the church, or is it a continuation of Jesus’ ministry on earth and an embodiment of his spirituality? Is Christianity a method and strategy,... [Read on]
What matters most? Leonard Sweet's answer is simple - relationships. And one relationship in particular drives all our other relationships - our relationship with Jesus. In What Matters Most: How We Got the Point But Missed the Person Sweet... [Read on]