Book Title:TRUE FACED Authors; JOHN LYNCH, BRUCE McNICOL, BILL THRALL… The authors of this book relay the message that God’s dreams for us are ultimately not really about us. His dreams only take form for the benefits of others i.e.them feeling loved, filling their heads with dreams and hopes, guiding them, serving them, influencing them etc. God’s dreams for us reflect His heart. If we are therefore not maturing in sync with His heart, how can we distinguish others- centered dreams form our own self-centered dreams? God wants to reveal Himself to us in authenticity. His dream for us is that we would influence others far more out of who we are rather than out of what we do. So, above all else, your destiny requires you to be a maturing person. The Father wants us to mature into the likeness of His Son. True Faced goes ahead to talk about how then we can be true faced before God and others in order to live out the purpose for which God created us. THE MASK Pretending to b...

Book Title: CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED. Author: Rico Tice and Barry Cooper Christianity Explored is an exposition on the Gospel according to Mark. The authors seek to make the readers better acquainted with who Jesus is. Rico Tice, one of the authors, did not have a particularly religious upbringing and thus reading the book becomes more interesting as one seeks to find out what then brought the change in his life. From the introduction of the book that has most of its references from the book of Mark, we are made to keep asking ourselves, ‘Just who is this man Jesus?’ Mark, the writer of the Gospel gives us a clear answer. Jesus is ‘the Son of God’- Mark1:1, He is ‘the Lord’ over sickness, nature, death and sin. As He teaches, calms the storm, raises the dead, heals the sick and forgives sin, He is acting in God’s world with God’s authority. He behaves as if He is the ruler over everything, as if He is God Himself. And if that is true –that Jesus is God- then things start gett...

  ORDERING YOUR PRIVATE WORLD .                   Author: Gordon MacDonald . What on earth is a private world? That’s a good place to start. Gordon explains it as the part of life where we know ourselves. Best of all, it is where self-esteem is forged. Where basic decisions about motives, values and commitments are made, where we commune with our God. As he puts it, for practicing Christians, our most persistent advocate of ordering our private world is the Holy Spirit. Is there need to have my private world in order? From the book, I can most certainly say yes. Our inner world is more spiritual in nature. Here is a center in which choices and values can be determined. Where solitude and reflections might be pursued. It is a place for conducting worship and confession. If neglected, this private world will not sustain the weight of events and pressure that press upon it. Our outer world on th...