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    The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth
    The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth
    The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth
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    The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

    Written by Ted Dekker

    Narrated by Kelly Ryan Dolan

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    In his debut nonfiction work following a plethora of successful novels (White; Three), Dekker exhorts Christians to wake up and find genuine happiness in cultivating a deep desire for heaven. Although he argues that Christians should enjoy the pleasures of earth as a "foretaste" of heaven, he cautions that these pleasures should not be mistaken for the real thing. Relying heavily on C.S. Lewis and the Apostle Paul, he makes a case for hope as the "engine of life." Satan, he says, has redirected our obsession away from God and heaven by filling our minds with earthly things. With the relentless zeal of an evangelist, Dekker illustrates many of his points with excerpts from his novels and from scripture, but his thought flow is sometimes problematic. He offers three practical ideas for setting one's mind on heaven-meditations, readings and corporate exercises-but fails to satisfactorily flesh them out. Although Dekker clearly has a sincere passion for his topic, Mark Buchanan's "Things Unseen" and Arthur Roberts's "Exploring Heaven" are better choices to excite desire for the afterlife.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateJul 15, 2005
    ISBN9781608143887

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    • 5/5
      True and impacting picture of the church and Christianity.
    • 4/5
      Ted Dekker is famous for being an author of “Christian Fiction” - fictional novels with faith-based ideas. This book is far from fiction.I picked up “The Slumber of Christianity” simply because it had Dekker’s name on it. I’m a fan of his and was curious whether his non-fictional work could be as well put together as his fictional works.I loved it.The book awakened my need to pursue the “prize” as the Apostle Paul puts it. Dekker points out that a majority of Christians lives day-to-day without thinking much, if at all, of the heavenly reward we are supposedly pursuing with our Christ-like walk.This read is already being worked into an upcoming message that I will be preaching.
    • 4/5
      Great book - it's a discussion of how to be content while alive, while at the same time long for heaven. The focus is on how christians have "fallen asleep" here on earth - Dekker has pointers on "waking up."
    • 5/5
      The BIG question for Christians is why are we worried so much about our life on earth when it will comprise an immeasurable portion of our eternal life? Why are we not more passionate about the life to come while we are on earth? Before reading this book I never thought about that...