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The Porpoise-Given Life: Inspiration from the Cetacean Nation

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This is just an incredible book and much needed in today's pop-theology culture where high sales totals define doctrine rather than solid historical and reasoned faith.

I enjoyed this book very much as I read it! I think it would be a great book for small group ministry. Easy to read chapters make it accessible while the ideas contained in each chapter would allow a small group to go as deep as the conversation allows.

I plan to use this book with groups of older Youth and in my Young Adult Sunday school class.

Leonard Sweet says it best on the jacket cover recommendation: "Too many followers of Jesus look like they've been born in crab-apple season. Chris Hughes has produced a firecracker of a book to throw into every crowd of cranky, contentious, humorless Christians...."

I find each of the 9 chapters well laid-out and in a logical progression. At the end of each chapter is a page with quotes, questions, actions, wisdom, and prayer that would help a group facilitator or just allow an individual to go deeper.

What a wonderful playful metaphor Chris has given us to think about God and life! You'll be blessed by this book.

Chris Hughes quickly joins the best thinkers and teachers of the culture with this beautifully crafted book. It's smart, avoids cliches and pushes the envelope. I have bought extras and shared them with my friends -- first time I've done that. A great tool for the personal journey as well as a jumping off point for discussion and exploration.

This book is a breath of fresh air. This book bridges the gap that has been created between the spiritual and the physical and helps us realize that they are one in the same. In order to have a flourshing spiritual life, we must first be provided, or more importantly, provide others with the basic needs to sustain a physical life. Hughes reminds us that stewardship, service, and justice-seeking become not only ideals but physical manifestations of a worshipful life.

This book is phanominal! It speaks to the issues we face as Christians, made in the image of God, living in a consumeristic, materialistic world not caring for God's creation. It is profound, thought provocing, and challenges us as Christians to actively live in the world but not of the world. Brother Hughes masterfully uses metaphors to enlighten and engage the reader. This book is wonderful for individual reading, but would also be great to use as a Bible Study, for it provides a great guided reflection and discussion questions at the end of each chapter. I highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks to live a life of purpose through "being"; through being Christ to the world; through living in joy; rather than "doing" and conforming to the ways of the world.

Playful, refreshing, profound. Its questions for reflection are nicely laid out for study and discussion groups.