Lover of Life: F. W. Boreham's Tribute to His Mentor (Revised and Expanded) (Paperback)

by F. W. Boreham (Author)

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I like the comments I received by email from a long-time family friend. His email was titled JJD, the name by which the subject of "Lover of Life," Joseph John Doke, was affectionately known. "I'm really glad you sent me the book. I read it cover to cover this morning in the quiet of our garden and put it down feeling the sense of tranquility that emanated from that man. He dedicated his life to bringing people together in matters large and small. His own lifestyle led him to become a revered teacher and master mediator. What I liked so much about the book is that it gets its points across by examples rather than preaching. Each chapter leaves its message. What a remarkable man! Our White House badly needs a person like him to mediate our positions in world affairs." These comments were written during the previous President's administration. --Anonymous Family Friend

Product Description
Many of us have our heroes but we often fail to recognize the people who helped to shape them. In "Lover of Life" the distinguished author Dr. F. W. Boreham draws back the curtain to pay tribute to one of his mentors, Joseph John Doke. This is a tantalizing sketch of a pastor, artist, author, who later in South Africa became a friend and freedom fighter with Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for the rights of minority races. Instead of a treatise on Effective Mentoring, F. W. Boreham in his inimitable way tells stories of how it worked for him and how pivotal such a relationship was in his own life and ministry. It would be good if seminary and denominational leaders put this book into the hands of every seminary student and pastor who are embarking on a new mentoring relationship. This short story about the friendship between J. J. Doke and Frank and Stella Boreham provides a wealth of insight and a hopeful vision of what a mentoring relationship might become (Dr. Geoff Pound). Please check out the other F. W. Boreham books published by John Broadbanks Publishing.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 44 pages
• Publisher: John Broadbanks Publishing (April 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979033403
• ISBN-13: 978-0979033407
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,099,481 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "New" Boreham Book, April 18, 2007

By	Bryan D. Gish (Henderson, KY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am a Boreham collector but most importantly a Boreham reader!!!! If you haven't yet purchased a copy of this book don't delay. If you're not aware this is a reprint of Boreham's original and nearly impossible to find book, "The Man Who Saved Ghandi", the story of his friend and mentor, J.J. Doke. This also includes an introductory essay by the man who probably knows the most about F.W. Boreham, Geoff Pound. So purchase this book and support this new publishing endeavor and hopefully we will see more "new" Boreham books published by the John Broadbanks Publishers.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars F W Boreham: Lover of Life, April 28, 2007

By	Rowland Croucher (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

'Mr. Doke', as Boreham respectfully calls his friend and mentor, was by all accounts - or at least this one - a most amazing human being and pastor.

Here we have John Broadbanks Publishing's first effort at re-issuing out-of-print F W Boreham books. Congratulations to Geoff Pound and Michael Dalton for a beautifully put-together version of Boreham's 1948 book The Man Who Saved Gandhi: A Short Biography of Joseph John Doke.

F W Boreham is Australia's and New Zealand's only really collectable religious author. So what was his special appeal? Well, he wrote about 50 very readable books (and over 2,000 newspaper articles), preached to large crowds in Hobart and Melbourne and around the world between the two World Wars, read thousands of books, but also had a pastoral 'common touch'.

And here we meet his mentor: an amazing man. Doke was - all in one person - a brilliant preacher, wise counsellor, gifted pastor, a passionate and holy Christian, lover of Scripture (he read the Bible through four times most years) and highly committed to 'foreign missions' (he died on a journey to encourage missionaries in the middle of 'darkest Africa').

And he may have been the most authentic Christian Gandhi ever met. Which makes a puzzle out of the Mahatma's often-quoted comment "Oh, I don't reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ." Well, if we take Boreham's word for it, Doke was the man most-like-Christ of any he knew. And Doke was amazingly Christlike to the then little-known Gandhi when they met in South Africa.

You can read these 34 pages in one sitting. Don't. Buy it for your pastor, but read it slowly first. Order some copies to give away.

Shalom!/Salaam!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lover of Life, June 25, 2007

By	Peter Geizer (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In the newly reprinted book, Lover of Life: F W Boreham's Tribute to his Mentor, the author draws back the curtain to pay tribute to one of his mentors, Joseph J Doke. "This is a tantalising sketch of a pastor, artist, author, who later in South Africa became a friend and freedom fighter with Mahatma Gandi in the struggle for the rights of minority races. Instead of a treatise on Effective Mentoring, F W Boreham in his inimitable way tells stories of how it worked for him and how pivotal such a relationship was in his own life and ministry".

The ministry of F W Boreham, as one of Australia's most prolific Christian authors is highly recognised. Dr Gordon Moyes once wrote, "I first read one of Dr Boreham's books in 1954. As a teenager I bought all I could find in second hand book shops. I read a chapter a day. Those books changed my habits for more than fifty years. ......Boreham taught me how to be a busy pastor of a church and at the same time write and communicate to a nation and our largest city. It was only after his death he became my most effective mentor. Fifty years ago, I learnt to repeat a famous introduction of him: "His name is on all our lips. His books are on all our shelves and his illustrations are in all our sermons." Now is the time for new generations to discover one of the greatest communicators and influential mentors in Christian history".

"Lover of Life" provides a wealth of insight and hopeful vision of what a mentoring relationship might become, a book you will want to read more than once!