All That Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us [Paperback]

Stan Guthrie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2010

More books have been written about Jesus than any other historical figure. Many of these books ask and answer questions about Jesus. All That Jesus Asks allows him to do the asking and shows why getting the right answers will change your life. Covering nearly 300 questions recorded in the New Testament under twenty-six separate themes, All That Jesus Asks uncovers who Jesus is by examining what was important to him and what he wants us to believe. This unique and comprehensive look at the greatest figure in history will encourage and challenge readers.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

What if we let Jesus ask the questions?

More books have been written about Jesus than any other historical figure. Many of these books ask and answer questions about Jesus. Would we get a different picture of Jesus if we allowed him to ask the questions?

Covering nearly three hundred questions recorded in the New Testament under twenty-six separate themes, All That Jesus Asks uncovers who Jesus is by examining what was important to him and what he wants us to believe. This unique and comprehensive look at the greatest figure in history will encourage and challenge you--and it just might change your life.

"Stan Guthrie is one of the most incisive writers I read. I'm always informed and challenged by his thinking."--Jerry B. Jenkins, novelist; owner, Christian Writers Guild

"All That Jesus Asks slices through the fog of culture and history to place us in an uncomfortable but privileged seat at the feet of Jesus as he teaches and confronts those who would follow him--or challenge him. You will find Jesus's questions to be both spiritually inspiring and unsettling."--Chuck Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship and the Colson Center for Christian Worldview

"Atheists attempt to put Christians on the defensive by questioning the authority and goodness of God. This book turns the tables by allowing Jesus to ask the questions. All That Jesus Asks will touch your head and your heart. I highly recommend it."--Dinesh D'Souza, author, What's So Great about Christianity

"Stan Guthrie leads us into a deeper look at Christ's humanity, authority, and mission. In All That Jesus Asks, you will discover the rugged truth about Christ and what that truth asks of you."--Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni and Friends International Disability Center

"Guthrie's book is a landmark. I urge you to buy it and read it again and again."--J. I. Packer, Board of Governors' Professor of Theology, Regent College

Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today. An award-winning journalist, author, and commentator on the evangelical scene, he has written, co-written, or edited more than a dozen books.

About the Author

Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today. An award-winning veteran journalist, author, and commentator on the evangelical scene, he has edited or cowritten a dozen books. Guthrie lives in Illinois.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Baker Books (November 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801071542
• ISBN-13: 978-0801071546
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6 x 8.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #811,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine. His book, All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, has been released by Baker. J.I. Packer says, "Guthrie's book is a landmark, perhaps a classic. I urge you to buy it and read it again and again."

Stan is also author of Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century and co-author (with Jerry Root) of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Stan's latest book, A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy, is scheduled for release this summer.

Stan writes the monthly "Priorities" column for BreakPoint.org and produces monthly opinion pieces for Crosswalk.com. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.

Stan has appeared on National Public Radio's "Tell Me More," WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, Nightline's Twittercast, and many Christian shows, including "The Chris Fabry Show" and Moody Radio's "New Day Florida."

Stan has a master's in intercultural studies from Columbia International University and a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Florida. He is married to Christine, and they have three children and live near Chicago.

An inspirational speaker, he hosts a weekly podcast with John Wilson of Books & Culture.

A former columnist for CT, Stan served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, "Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?"

You can learn more about Stan, publishing, and journalism at his Stan Guthrie Communications website, http://stanguthrie.com/.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Questions, questions December 16, 2010

By Scot McKnight

Format:Paperback

I've often told students and audiences that, if you read the Gospels carefully, you learn not to ask Jesus questions. When someone asks him a question they more often than not get deconstructed or Jesus probes behind the question to an even deeper personal question. So the scribe asks Jesus, "What is the greatest commandment of them all?" Jesus answers with two answers -- love God and love your neighbor -- and the scribe is challenged to go deeper than he's even been before.

But what one of CT's finest editors, Stan Guthrie, does in his new book is something I've never seen before. Instead of studying the questions people ask Jesus, Stan has provided a veritable sketch of the mission and message of Jesus by examining and grouping the questions Jesus himself asks of others. His new book is called All That Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us .

The book skillfully arranges the questions Jesus asks into:

Who is Jesus?
How do you follow him?
Where is your thinking?
Why is character so vital?
What are some critical doctrines?

Almost 300 questions by Jesus are gathered under those five questions. Stan does something very helpful for all of us: in an appendix he outlines the book by providing the nearly 300 questions and the Bible verse for each.

The book is filled with stories and quotations -- from NT Wright to John Piper -- and observations and personal applications, but Stan writes seamlessly as he ponders what Jesus was doing and why and what he was asking and why. The book is a veritable treasure house of Jesus' ministry and how it can help us today.

Pastors could build an entire summer of sermons from this book, or they could walk through Lent with it, or they could just do a big series ... and I would call it "Jesus Has a Question for You!" The book can be read as a devotional as well.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A strong and needed Christian voice November 15, 2010

By Louis Markos

Format:Paperback

I am a professor of English at Houston Baptist University, and I am always happy when I read a writer who can (in the tradition of Philip Yancey)smoothly combine a reportage-type style with a more literary-type style. Effecting such a fusion is not easy, but Guthrie pulls it off beautifully. He gives us the facts and the statistics and the "current events," but then he moves past such things to make comments of more universal merit. His thesis, that we can learn a great deal about Jesus by carefully considering the questions that HE asked, is a simple but highly effective one, and it enables Guthrie to open up new territories in the gospels, while still saying true to Christian orthodoxy. Guthrie has a strong and unique voice and vision to offer: one that our modern and postmodern world needs to hear.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Transformative November 18, 2010

By Christopher Castaldo

Format:Paperback

I heartily recommend "All That Jesus Asks" by Stan Guthrie. A writer, editor, speaker, and literary agent, Stan is a bright shining star in the constellation of journalists whose work revolves around the centrality of Christ. In this volume, Stan not only explores Jesus' questions, he offers a living portrait of the Lord from whose heart such questions spring.