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  1. brother george
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    many gems of wisdom mined from scripture
    June 14, 2011
    brother george
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: male
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This review was written for The Life You've Always Wanted, Large Print.
    The Life You've Always Wanted

    by john Ortberg

    Publisher Thorndike Press (large print) 2006

    ISBN-13: 978-1-59415-083-8 / Christian Growth

    The author asks, are you missing the life that you were appointed by God to live ? Are you having the life you always wanted or are you in need of a life that is worth living ? By giving God the best time of your life, you could have the life you have always wanted.

    What is keeping you from growing closer to Christ and having a joyful life ? john Ortberg reveals the Christian life is about more than being forgiven and more than getting to heaven. The goal of this book is to help you grow spiritually and become much closer to God.

    Ortberg shares many gems of wisdom mined from scripture, other Christian writings, stories his friends relate to him, and his own personal experiences. This author sometimes bends a few words or a phrase as a liberty of a writer to maintain the readers attention.

    God's purpose in guidance is not to get us to perform the right actions. His purpose is to help us become the right kind of people. Guidance only comes to those who have made the decision to be guided. Each of your thoughts will take you further from God or closer towards God. You have the choice of who will lead your thoughts and which direction you will travel. Knowing scripture is very good, however the knowing of the spirit frees us from the desire to sin. You must arrange your life so that sin no longer looks good to you.

    Ortberg likens the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly to the transformation by renewal of your mind. Understanding the difference between training and merely trying is the key to the transformation in every aspect of life. Spiritual growth is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely. This author uses the example of a marathon runner training consistently to strengthen his endurance for the long run. As we need to practice our spiritual disciplines consistently as exercises to strengthen our endurance for our life long run.

    Ortberg refers to the story of Snow White; Each of us have tasted the forbidden fruit, We all have fallen under the curse. But the Prince comes to free us from the curse and when that happens; "Sleeper, awake rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." If you do not have God in the central role of your life, then you have refused to "let God be God"

    The kind of servant hood Jesus calls us to; is helping others for our own sake. The true indicator of spiritual well-being is growth in the ability to love God and people. A act of service to another demonstrates that you value them. The Life you've always wanted is a life of humility.
  2. Lang
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Great for group study
    September 17, 2012
    Lang
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: male
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    I lead a Bible study group (lay leader) and we have used a number of different books as part of our discussion group. We chose this book specifically because of a previous book by the same author "(If You Want To Walk On Water, You Have To Get Out Of The Boat"). John Ortberg writes a stimulating narrative that is a great catalyst for discussion. He challenges you to broaden your Christian perspective.
  3. Debbie
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Spiritual Disciplines for everyone!
    January 18, 2011
    Debbie
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Best book I've read on the subject.

    I'm giving it out as gifts now!
  4. Doug Rouse
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    December 7, 2006
    Doug Rouse
    This is the most helpful book to my Christian life, apart from the Bible, that I have read in a long time. Ortberg made every chapter fresh, alive, and applicable. If you want to go deeper in your life with God, I heartily reccomend this book.
  5. Dr. Robert W. Kellemen
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    May 3, 2005
    Dr. Robert W. Kellemen
    In "The Life You've Always Wanted," pastor and author John Ortberg calls Christians back to the basics. In fact, you could think of his book as "Spiritual Disciplines 101," or "The ABCs of Growing in Grace," or, as Ortberg himself mused, "One of my private working titles for this book was 'Dallas for Dummies' (referring to Dallas Willard's works on spiritual discipline). His subtitle says it well, too, "Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People." Ortberg did not write to duplicate the thorough work done by authors like Willard, Richard Foster, and Donald Whitney. Rather, he wrote to "explicate" their writings--to provide an easy-to-read and apply approach to the spiritual disciplines for the Christian life. His intent may frustrate some readers or reviewers, but it really does not need to. Throughout Church history, God raised up deep thinkers and deep relaters/doers (Aquinas and Bernard of Clarvaux being one such historical pairing). Every generation needs both. Ortberg's approach is hopeful--it leaves the reader with the belief that, "I understand the spiritual disciplines and I could even discipline myself to practice them, even with my busy lifestyle and scattered life." Thus motivated, readers just might discipline their minds to then also read and apply Willard, Foster, or Whitney. Either way, their much better off for having read Ortberg. Reviewer: Dr. Robert W. Kellemen, author of "Soul Physicians" and "Spiritual Friends."
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