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Furious Pursuit: Why God Will Never Let You Go

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This is an excellent book for discovering how God has always loved and pursued mankind. Tim does an excellent review of explaining that God has always wanted willing hearts to respond to His love. Fear has never been a variable in God's love. Tim explains in detail that God has always been our lover and is furious to draw us into relationship with him.
Tim King and Frank Martin deserves 5 stars. Should be a read for everyone who wants to better understand God.
Rev. Allen Brooks, Tennessee

It is very refreshing to read a work that really describes the true meaning of our relationship with God.

God is so much bigger then our small stories.

I could not put the book down once I began.

Thank you Mr. King for a marvelous work.

This delightful book reminds me of God's unconditional love for us. He loves us and actively seeks us for a love relationship. To realize that God is personal, loving, open, seeking, and desiring His best for me - whatever my shortcomings - is breathtaking. Read it, enjoy it, and forever live in the presence of our loving Creator. God is the Master Designer. Live as He designed you! For love.

Tim King and Frank Martin have written a masterpiece which reminds us of God's eternal presence in every day life. Each chapter combines personal stories with Scriptural insight and truth. This well-crafted book provides great encouragement to every reader.

Here's a small taste from page 117: "It is impossible to walk with God in the past or the future; we can walk with him only in the present moment. And because God doesn't submit to a linear time line, every moment is an eternal moment."

"Our view of time has led us to think of eternity as something in the future, as some grand blessing to come at the end of this life. But what is eternity if it isn't life with the Eternal One? Eternity is living with God today, being fully alive in his presence moment by moment. Every moment is an eternal moment because every moment can be lived in the company of God."

"God longs for us to be fully engaged with him, fully focused on our relationship. He longs for us to step out of our time-limited space and into sacred eternal space. He invites us to step out of ourselves and into eternity with him, to discard the myth of linear time and live in the reality of his immediate presence."

"In God's presence you are enough. In eternity with God, you have enough. In the sacred place, time is always lived in the present moment."

This book will stir eternal thoughts which will last far longer than the reading experience. It's a book worth reading--and reading again to soak deeply in the spiritual truths.

My pastor showed me this book (no, he wouldn't let me borrow it - told me to get my own.) I purchased the book along with the workbook and set about going through it.

This book was very enlightening and challenged me to think of God in an entirely different way. God wishes to have an intimate relationship with me! Using the workbook, I was able to go through challenges that in my thinking. If you use the workbook - it's a 13 week lesson. However, slowing down and going over the challenges in my thinking took me much longer.

Furious Pursuit will help you discover the love and passion God has for you. If you are tired of hearing about what you must do to find God, then this book is for you. Tim King and Frank Martin have written a simply wonderful book that will touch your heart. When it is accompanied with the workbook, Furious Pursuit is great for small group studies and personal devotion. I believe that once you read Furious Pursuit, you will see God in a whole new light. You will love this book.

Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (07/06)


Are you tired of chasing after God with endless lists of rules and impossible tasks? There's Good News!!! "Furious Pursuit: Why God Will Never Let You Go" is a book written for those of you like me who have been searching for God, but always seem to end up feeling hopeless, alone and tired. This book carefully lays out God's larger story of love as the greatest love story ever told.

"Furious Pursuit" simplifies what I always thought was the most daunting task in my life - finding God. So many of the theological approaches today end up making us feel totally worthless, with the path to finding God an impossible task. King and Martin lay out a very simple approach to this - recognizing that God is already pursuing us and letting it happen. We are wooed by God through initial courtship, dating and finally the long-term commitment of marriage. And the best part is? The happy ending in this divine romance is about us.

This well-written and thoughtful approach to God works so well because the authors organize and describe God's relationship with us by using examples of everyday relationships; oftentimes using personal and painful experiences to make a point. So much of the time we are so busy living our lives of quiet desperation that we fail to see that we are part of a much larger picture. It is such a relief to realize that we are an important part of God's story and that his love for us is completely unconditional.

The most poignant section for me was the chapter "Living in the Eternal Moment - Knowing God in the present tense". So many of us spend the majority of our time thinking about past failures or planning how to do well in the future that we lose the wonderful things that the moment offers. After reading this chapter I spent a whole day consciously living in the present and it was tough. Every time I started thinking about past or future situations I brought myself back to the present to be fully conscious of what I was experiencing. You know what I found? I have so many wonderful moments everyday if I take the time to notice them. And if I really think about all the time I spend feeling badly about past mistakes there is nothing I can do to change them except to make better decisions in present situations. And, as for worrying about future situations? I have always been provided with the things that I have needed.

"Furious Pursuit" helped me to see God in a whole new light and to look forward to my everyday relationship with God instead of being overwhelmed and lost. King and Martin have also written a companion workbook to go along with this book and I am looking forward to getting it and following the ninety-one day program.

Received book free of charge.

Subtitled "Why God Will Never Let You Go," FURIOUS PURSUIT opens with Frank Martin's admission that he's tired of chasing after God. Like so many Christians, over the years Martin had been subtly and perhaps even unintentionally fed the lie that we need to spend our lives pursuing God --- as if God is running on ahead of us and daring us to see if we can catch up. His admission, however, led him to a deeper understanding of the kind of relationship God wants to have with us, one that is not based on our pursuit of him but rather on his relentless pursuit of us.

That's good news for many who believe they must strive to find God, impress God, grab God's attention, make God love them, and so forth --- if only they can believe this good news. To bolster their premise that God is the one chasing us, Tim King and Frank Martin have organized their thoughts and the book along the lines of a classic courtship, beginning with the encouragement to stop running after God and allow yourself the pleasure of being the one pursued for a change.

The authors then describe the romance that is already in progress, God's passion for you and what you need to understand about his nature and his desire to be in relationship with the people he created. "Whether or not you like it," they write, "whether or not you ever fully grasp the concept, you are playing a part in history's greatest and grandest Love Story. And although the Story is not about you, it has everything to do with you."

If you've ever read John Eldredge's THE SACRED ROMANCE, this is probably starting to sound familiar. If you haven't, then read on, because the authors at this point lead us to a section on the courtship itself and show us how our understanding of our identity is critical to appreciating God's pursuit of us, how God wins us over to this romantic relationship with him, and how we can fully enjoy that relationship in the present. A final section describes this relationship as a "marriage to be consummated," beginning with a divine proposal that we commit ourselves to God for eternity. The authors describe our positive response to this sacred invitation in this way: "You and I give ourselves freely and willingly into the arms of God, allowing ourselves to be folded completely into the fury of his love and enraptured by the passions of his desire."

Christians who are tired of running after God --- and who have not read Eldredge and others who have written extensively on our role in the larger story of God's love --- will likely find a great deal here that will help convince them that God is indeed the one doing the pursuing and that they can stop all their striving to win God's favor. (King and Martin have also created a companion workbook, which I have not read, that is available separately.)

--- Reviewed by Marcia Ford

This is a powerful book with a simple message: God has always pursued us despite our sin, shortcomings, and faults. Tim and Frank shun dry theology in favor of down to earth advice and words of wisdom from the Scriptures, and the wisdom is that God will never let us go.

Using personal stories and Scripture, the authors comparatively show how love always wins over fear, how God's will for us is to follow him out of desire, not fright; this is because God is not a God of wrath and punishment, but one of compassion, understanding and love. These qualities are the motivating factors in God's continuous and furious pursuit of us.

Great book, well worth your reading time.