Travel with James Emery White through time and space to visit places like Martin Luther's Wittenburg, where the 95 theses were nailed to a church door, or The Eagle and Child pub, where C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and the other Inklings met to write and dream together. You'll encounter many of the important spiritual sites of the history of Christianity and get a flavor for what it was like to be in that place at that time. White then takes you even deeper, exploring key themes from these historical moments such as calling, conversion and spirituality and showing their implications for the Christian life today.
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By Tracey Finck
Format:Paperback
Each of the nine chapters of A Traveler's Guide to the Kingdom takes us to a unique and remarkable destination. James Emery White is our tour guide, describing how the place looks as we arrive, pointing out things we should notice. We start in Oxford at the Eagle and Child Pub, marvel at the beauty of the Chartres Cathedral in France, reel at the stark oppression portrayed at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and still apparent at the Dachau Concentration Camp. He even takes us to St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt at the sight of the burning bush. These places serve as jump-off points for White. Each chapter becomes a meditation on a different topic, all relevant issues regarding life in Christ. The book would work well as a prompt for discussion groups. I found it mentally engaging and spiritually nourishing.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Bill Gibbons
Format:Paperback
To fellow life traveler's, this is the first book I've taken the time to write a review, I'm a verbal evangelist of good books, restaurants, vacation spots, and most importantly, Jesus Christ, who radically changed my life! I discovered James E. White when I picked a another book he's written "Serious Times", I love the gift he has of making an impact on your being in a very positive "Serious" (pun intended) way. I recommend this book to any dedicated Christian who wants to make an impact on people that could change their eternal destiny.
A couple thoughts before I go, 1) My family and I are going through some deep water and fire in a life and death health issue and chapter 8 "Ten Boom House, Haarlem, Holland" strenghtened and encouraged my family . 2) As in the first book I read, I found I was picking up a high lighter and underling quite a few lines, even paragraphs to reflect on and reread. I've been inclined to share these reflections with the people I care about. As I wrap up, I encourage you to get this book and enjoy the journey, A partial quote on Jim's previous book "Serious Times" which is a DITTO on this one, from LON AllISON, Director, Billy Gramham Center, Wheaton College, "...Jim White calls us to to 'Kick at the darkness till it bleeds light' and the way we kick, he rightly assesses, is with 'deepened souls and develped minds' Fill our churchs, Lord, with such illuminated saints, and start with me."
A disclaimer; I recieved this book through the blog "Church and Culture" if I would blog and review it in a total honest, blunt and uninfluenced way. Here it is!
A couple thoughts before I go, 1) My family and I are going through some deep water and fire in a life and death health issue and chapter 8 "Ten Boom House, Haarlem, Holland" strenghtened and encouraged my family . 2) As in the first book I read, I found I was picking up a high lighter and underling quite a few lines, even paragraphs to reflect on and reread. I've been inclined to share these reflections with the people I care about. As I wrap up, I encourage you to get this book and enjoy the journey, A partial quote on Jim's previous book "Serious Times" which is a DITTO on this one, from LON AllISON, Director, Billy Gramham Center, Wheaton College, "...Jim White calls us to to 'Kick at the darkness till it bleeds light' and the way we kick, he rightly assesses, is with 'deepened souls and develped minds' Fill our churchs, Lord, with such illuminated saints, and start with me."
A disclaimer; I recieved this book through the blog "Church and Culture" if I would blog and review it in a total honest, blunt and uninfluenced way. Here it is!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I don't often promote books. But every once in a while a book comes along that needs to be shared with the world. A book that takes you on a journey, in which at the end you will never be the same. At the end of it you will have been transformed.
A Traveler's Guide To The Kingdom by James Emery White is such a book. The author is a journeyman. I feel a kindred spirit with him. I love to travel and throughout his book he takes us to a different location and as he is telling the history, he describes the location with such beautiful words that you feel like you are there with him.
As well as a physical journey, Mr. White takes us on a spiritual journey. Starting at a very basic understanding of where we came from, to our desire to know our Creator, to following Him, trusting Him and living out a life pleasing to Him. And He leaves us with the understanding that it is okay to doubt; that doubt is all part of the journey.
One of the most impacting parts of the book is when the author discusses the concept of clarity vs. trust. He talks about a conversation a man had with Mother Teresa, where she told him that he was holding on to clarity and needed to let go and just trust God. This spoke to me in so any ways.
I am a vision-caster. I am a dreamer. I like to think to the future, of what could be. But sometimes in doing that I get to a place where I need to KNOW the future. I forget to live in the moment, today. I forget to let go of NEEDING clarity and realize all I NEED is to trust God. There is a freedom in that letting go.
A Traveler's Guide To The Kingdom is a book for anyone who wants to find themselves on a journey to a better more fulfilled life.
A Traveler's Guide To The Kingdom by James Emery White is such a book. The author is a journeyman. I feel a kindred spirit with him. I love to travel and throughout his book he takes us to a different location and as he is telling the history, he describes the location with such beautiful words that you feel like you are there with him.
As well as a physical journey, Mr. White takes us on a spiritual journey. Starting at a very basic understanding of where we came from, to our desire to know our Creator, to following Him, trusting Him and living out a life pleasing to Him. And He leaves us with the understanding that it is okay to doubt; that doubt is all part of the journey.
One of the most impacting parts of the book is when the author discusses the concept of clarity vs. trust. He talks about a conversation a man had with Mother Teresa, where she told him that he was holding on to clarity and needed to let go and just trust God. This spoke to me in so any ways.
I am a vision-caster. I am a dreamer. I like to think to the future, of what could be. But sometimes in doing that I get to a place where I need to KNOW the future. I forget to live in the moment, today. I forget to let go of NEEDING clarity and realize all I NEED is to trust God. There is a freedom in that letting go.
A Traveler's Guide To The Kingdom is a book for anyone who wants to find themselves on a journey to a better more fulfilled life.
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Dr. James Emery White is a very good writer. His excellent book, A Mind for God, motivated me to return to the discipline and delight of reading after many years of neglect. Read more
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You sit rapt in a story of history and intrigue and far-away places that you've never seen that we wrought with significance that you never realized existed. Read more
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A Traveler's Guide to the Kingdom: Journeying Through the Christian Life
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