I received a new book about a week ago titled "Primal." It's written by Mark Batterson who wrote a couple of my favorite recent reads: "In A Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day" and "Wild Goose Chase."
I haven't had a lot of time to read the last couple of weeks, but this is one book I find myself drawn back to again and again, if only for a few minutes. Mark is a storyteller, and his emphasis follows personal stories, historical events, and interesting scientific data (where does he GET this stuff), and leads you on a journey to recapture the heart of our faith.
We live in a day and age when it's so easy to complicate and weigh down our faith with so much "stuff", that we forget what's important in the first place. It reminds me of Jesus' words to the church in Ephesus in Revelation 2. They had done all the "stuff" but they'd lost their first love. They lost what was MOST important in the process of being religious.
Mark pulls us back to our roots in rediscovering why we're on this journey anyway. A look at God's incredible love for us and finding our love for Him again.
Powerful words. Powerful message. Powerful, changed lives.
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