In a world that runs with the need for speed, we feel time pushing us, sometimes even mastering us, as we rush from one thing to the next. Time is as familiar as the clock on the wall, yet it's also a mystery. For poets, philosophers, songwriters, and scientists, time and eternity are frontiers as rich and compelling as the origins of the cosmos and the nature of God. One of the emerging writers and thinkers of our day, Ellen Vaughn, takes us on a stirring journey through this topic that touches us all. How can time-bound humans relate to a limitless God and enjoy his peace? Time Peace examines how we experience time in life's fleeting moments. It explores timekeeping through history and in different cultures and introduces the unique Christian distinctive about it. It soars through the space-time continuum in an intriguing exploration of how science and philosophy illuminate biblical accounts. It helps readers take these truths and apply them to everyday life, freeing us to live at peace in time---and to leave a legacy that lasts for eternity.
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'As an old friend and colleague of Ellen Vaughn I am hardly unbiased, but this is one of the most significant and thought-provoking Christian books I have read. Writing in her usual captivating style, Ellen has made what could be a difficult subject very accessible. The book has had a powerful spiritual impact on me, causing me to re-think the way in which I think about God, particularly in my prayer life. Her explanation of what is meant by `God is light' is profound. 'Because of my ministry, I have read most of the contemporary apologetics works. This one ranks with the very best of them, and it comes at a providential moment. When you read this book and think about the enormity of the universe, the speed with which light and matter is traveling, the interrelationship between time and space, the dimensions of reality yet to be explored, you will realize what pompous nonsense is being spewed out by the latest generation of atheists, Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and company. Ellen's arguments make a mockery of their pompous assertions that there is no God. Read her book and you'll realize that any proposition other than `God is' is on its face absurd. 'Having read Time Peace, I am left with awe and wonder. I highly recommend this book. Give it to your friends. Ellen has written some fine things over the years. This is far and away her best work.' -- Charles W. Colson, Founder, Prison Fellowship <br><br>
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In a world that runs with the need for speed, we feel time pushing us, sometimes even mastering us, as we rush from one thing to the next. Time is as familiar as the clock on the wall, yet it's also a mystery. For poets, philosophers, songwriters, and scientists, time and eternity are frontiers as rich and compelling as the origins of the cosmos and the nature of God.<br><br>One of the emerging writers and thinkers of our day, Ellen Vaughn, takes us on a stirring journey through this topic that touches us all. How can time-bound humans relate to a limitless God and enjoy his peace? Time Peace examines how we experience time in life's fleeting moments. It explores timekeeping through history and in different cultures and introduces the unique Christian distinctive about it. It soars through the space-time continuum in an intriguing exploration of how science and philosophy illuminate biblical accounts. It helps readers take these truths and apply them to everyday life, freeing us to live at peace in time---and to leave a legacy that lasts for eternity.
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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Ellen's best work yet!,
This review is from: Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God (Hardcover)
As an old friend and colleague of Ellen Vaughn I am hardly unbiased, but this is one of the most significant and thought-provoking Christian books I have read. Writing in her usual captivating style, Ellen has made what could be a difficult subject very accessible. The book has had a powerful spiritual impact on me, causing me to re-think the way in which I think about God, particularly in my prayer life. Her explanation of what is meant by `God is light' is profound.
Because of my ministry, I have read most of the contemporary apologetics works. This one ranks with the very best of them, and it comes at a providential moment. When you read this book and think about the enormity of the universe, the speed with which light and matter is traveling, the interrelationship between time and space, the dimensions of reality yet to be explored, you will realize what pompous nonsense is being spewed out by the latest generation of atheists, Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and company. Ellen's arguments make a mockery of their pompous assertions that there is no God. Read her book and you'll realize that any proposition other than `God is' is on its face absurd. Having read Time Peace, I am left with awe and wonder. I highly recommend this book. Give it to your friends. Ellen has written some fine things over the years. This is far and away her best work.
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
There is still mystery, but Vaughn comes to see time in terms of peace and takes her reader there also.,
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This review is from: Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God (Hardcover)
TIME PEACE is not quite a devotional, in which each chapter has a neat self-contained take-away message. Ellen Vaughn has written more of a think piece, in which chapters are short essays or nonfiction stories --- Vaughn is a very good storyteller --- that build one upon the other to ultimately present a devotional package.
In part 1, "Experiencing Time," Vaughn introduces time issues: "Time Flies," as in hours, days, years seem to go by so fast; "Time Hurts," as in we age and die and "its passage hurts." Jumping off from an account of people living and dying in the midst of Europe's 14th-century black plague, Vaughn contrasts how people of faith can view and use time differently than people of despair. "Time is not our enemy when we are friends with God," she writes, before progressing to part 2, "Managing Time," which starts with a curious childhood anecdote of Ellen visiting and accidentally hitting, with her chin, no less, a "lock-down" button in the U.S. Naval Observatory, which keeps or determines the government's official time. (Visitors are no longer allowed.) As Americans we have become increasingly obsessed with and enslaved by time and the demands we require of it. "Social commentators call it a `time-crunched culture.' Psychologists call it `hurry sickness.' Everybody else calls it `multitasking.'" We're paying a high price: "Chronic impatience becomes bottled wrath." From personal experience, contrasting her college years with her professional life (working with Charles Colson, "an enormously productive triple-A personality"), Vaughn discusses two misuses of time: being slothful and being overly controlling, squeezing the most out of every minute. Neither mode of operation is good stewardship of the gift of time that God has given us, Vaughn contends. "Are we often like Martha, distracted and controlling, acting like it's our time, not God's?" Part 3, "Re-Viewing Time: A New Paradigm," delves into the science of time, light and matter --- think Einstein --- and then into quantum physics, all packaged within a theological framework. I've always "checked out" when someone has tried to explain to me the "new physics"; so just the fact that I stayed with and understood the presentation speaks well of Vaughn's prose. She briefly mentions someone who tries to discount Christian faith on the basis of quantum physics. But throughout the book, Vaughn returns to a theme of God being beyond finite knowledge or imaginings. The quantum world? Well, wow. God, our creator and redeemer, has more tricks up his sleeve than we had imagined. In part 4, "Enjoying Time," Vaughn returns to our personal view and use of time, hooking many of her points to Jesus's parable of the steward and to the Gospel stories of Mary and Martha of Bethany. One most wonderful paragraph toward the end of the book is expressed in the context of God caring "more about our character than our calendar." Some Christians, Vaughn says, "become so anxious about time that they regard any interruption as `spiritual warfare'; anything messy that slows them down is thwarting the very purposes of the Kingdom, because God needs them to have an immaculate schedule. This mindset can border on human ego rather than Kingdom effectiveness." Sometimes Vaughn interjects humor that would prompt laughter from a live audience but doesn't quite work on paper. "Hmm, Augustine says in Latin. Hummus. He munches a crust of bread dipped in chickpea spread." Well, okay, now let's get on with the issue at hand --- what Augustine said about time. Apparently a lot, prefaced with this statement: "It is a problem at once so familiar and so mysterious." Though she doesn't say so, I imagine Vaughn started writing her book with the same puzzlement. By the end of her research and analysis, presented in the context of spiritual reflection, Vaughn answers a lot of questions. There is still mystery, but Vaughn comes to see time in terms of peace and takes her reader there also. --- Reviewed by Evelyn Bence
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God (Hardcover)
It's rare to encounter a book like this. By way of remarkable stories and genuine, personal reflections, Ellen Vaughn has crafted a deft combination of the theological and scientific, the deeply thoughtful and the incredibly practical. And her skillful pen makes the entire read compelling and quite enjoyable. Her insights and descriptions prompted numerous "wow-I've-never-thought-of-that-before" and "whoa-my-mind-can-barely-comprehend-this" type moments. . .as well a few "hey-how-did-she-know-that-about-me!"
Don't mistake "Time Peace" as yet another book about time management or personal efficiency or any of those another clichéd, over-addressed time-related topics. Rather, Vaughn provides a view of time that is much bigger than the typical, much more encouraging than the usual. I highly recommend it.
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