If I Could Ask God One Question [Paperback]

Greg Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1998

"Hello, operator, I'd like to speak to GOD please?"

If only God had a telephone number. Whenever you're feeling a bit confused, all you would need to do is pick up your cordless and give Him a ring, or at least page His beeper.

God doesn't have a phone but He wants to give you answers. He's left you an instruction manual, the Bible, to help you through your walk on this earth. But all Christians at some point in their faith stumble upon a question they have a difficult time finding an answer to. Not to mention the questions you've always had but were afraid to ask.

If I Could Ask God One Question is ideal for sorting through questions about God, the Christian faith, and the Bible. Questions such as:

How do I forgive someone who's hurt me?

Why do I need to read the Old Testament?

Is temptation a sin?

What does God have to say about parties?

-as well as many others are sensitively answered and will reassure you that God isn't afraid of a heart that is genuinely looking for an answer.

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About the Author

Greg Johnson is the former editor of Breakaway magazine and the author of eight books. A graduate of Northwest Christian College, Greg has been involved with teens for over a decade and has worked with Youth for Christ and Focus on the Family. He and his wife have two sons and make their home in Colorado.

size : 5.3 x 8.3

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764220934
• ISBN-13: 978-0764220937
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,237,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps too simplistic, January 3, 2001

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E. Johnson (El Cajon, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: If I Could Ask God One Question (Paperback)

Greg Johnson has written a number of books on the subject of teens, as he has 20 years experience. And I don't want to take anything away from his ministry. However, while he covers a very broad assortment of questions in this book, he stays on the surface and doens't dig very deep. Most questions are answered in a page or two, and I just don't think you can adequately deal with some of the questions he introduces. In fact, he spends only 184 pages answering 80 questions, and some of the pages are the second pages of a chapter, with only a paragraph on these pages.

Perhaps he should have narrowed the number of questions so he could have dug a little deeper. I would have also liked additional resources at the end of each chapter (for futher digging). As someone who works with high school teens, I know that the way they think goes much deeper than what this book has to offer. Perhaps it is better suited to pre-teens and early teens, but the 16 to 18-year-old audience that I work with wants more. Finally, a book like this--with such a great title as it has--needs to be better organized. There are no table of contents or index. I suppose the way to find a particular question is to mark up your book on your own. Truly, if Johnson could find a way to better organize a future book with more details in the answers, I know many teens who would truly buy it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, March 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: If I Could Ask God One Question (Paperback)

Working with the young people from my Church has been real rewarding. In this book I found the anwsers to most of the questions I had been asked. The book gives simple straight forward anwsers and the Bible scripture to back them