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Finding faith is not a leap in the dark that requires you to forsake truth and intellectual honesty. In two companion volumes, Brian McLaren affirms the needs of both your mind and your heart as he helps you to find a faith that is real, honest, good, enriching, transforming, and yours.

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There have been times when you’ve felt that if there isn’t a God, there ought to be.

Swept up in the mystery of the night sky, you’ve felt the closeness of its designer. Nature’s extravagant diversity, unfolding in living color, has made you long to know the artist who dreamed it all up. Imagine what that might be like—to actually know God in a way that fills your heart and whispers tremendous value and purpose to something deep within you.

But how can you experience a being you’re not even sure exists? Religious jargon and games can’t satisfy such a longing. It’s got to be real … or nothing at all.

A Search for What Is Real helps you sort through the questions, objections, and concerns that arise when you consider God not as some theological abstraction, but as someone you can actually connect with … and want to connect with, perhaps more than you know.

FINDING FAITH

The Finding Faith books A Search for What Makes Sense and A Search for What Is Real don’t try to tell you what to believe; they are guides in learning how to believe. If you think the spiritual journey requires turning your back on honesty and intellectual integrity, these two companion volumes will speak to both your mind and your soul.

About the Author

Brian D. McLaren (MA, University of Maryland) is founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church, an innovative, nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington region. He's also a senior fellow with emergent (www.emergentvillage.org), a growing generative friendship of missional Christian leaders.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002T451KO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan (February 1, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.59 x 7.2 inches

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Hi, Friends -

When I was a boy, I dreamed of growing up to be an "arthur" (I hadn't mastered spelling yet).

I never dreamed I'd be writing books about spirituality, theology, ethics, and global crises. Instead, I wanted to write comic books. When I realized that my ability to draw had stopped developing at about age 6, I gave up on being an "arthur."

Years later, I became a college English teacher, then a pastor (for 24 years), and during that time, somewhat unexpectedly, I started writing books. Now in my 60's, I write, travel, speak, and help people get equipped and organized to make a positive difference in our world.

I hope you'll find in my books solutions to problems you experience, inspiration for challenges you face, and motivation to grow as an agent of needed change in our world.

I was born in New York, lived in Illinois, but spent most of my growing-up and child-raising years outside of Washington, DC, in Maryland. I'm married to Grace and we have four wonderful adult kids and five absolutely amazing grandkids (don't get me started). We've lived in SW Florida since 2009, where I enjoy a variety of outdoor pursuits, including birding, volunteering as a sea turtle monitor, and fly fishing from a kayak for tarpon.

You can learn more about me and my work at my website and blog - www.brianmclaren.net. You'll also find links to my domains on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Jeffrey A. Vanderhoff

Outstanding book, offering new light for your spiritual path.

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2010

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This is the book I wish I had written. Since I didn't, I am glad someone else wrote it and led me along the journey of faith in this sequence. McLaren begins with an honest look at our options when it comes to faith, beginning with the question of God's existence, examining atheism, agnosticism, and theism, then progressing along step by step with the reader on the journey.
McLaren opens each chapter with a one page preview of what questions are answered, what is addressed, and a diagram explaining where he is going with the topic. This is helpful.

He makes an admirable attempt to answer many of the questions he raises, but also admits that he is more concerned with helping the reader answer the questions. Rather than give what or why as it relates to God, McLaren points us to how to discover our own answers. This is both helpful and frustrating, as what I want are conclusive answers. Once again, it is clear that no such answers are forthcoming, but in this journey I have learned to be more comfortable with questions.
McLaren ends with a close look at Jesus, and the ways that Christians have misrepresented him over the years. He also looks at how Jesus is positively represented, and why McLaren himself is a believer.
Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life is to be seen as Jesus showing the way and being the way, not standing in the way as so many seem to place him today. Rather than view this as an exlusive phrase, McLaren sees it as an inclusive one, whereby Jesus invites IN those whom others have tried to keep OUT: the 'sinners', the tax collectors, the prostitutes, the least and the lost.
McLaren very clearly outlines the 2 choices he felt he had regarding his spiritual journey. He could turn from the faith altogether, and go and do as he pleased, but that would be giving up entirely on his spiritual search. Or, he could continue to follow the well-worn path of his conservative yet exclusive and incomplete religious heritage. Thankfully, he saw a third way. A narrow path winding its way uphill between the other two, with Jesus' footprints in the dust. This is the way he chose, and this is the path he illuminates for you and me in the pages of Finding Faith.

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Wings of dragons

Great for people figuring out what they want in life

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2007

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McLaren does a great job in this book with putting out the options and asking the questions to help people figure out which way they want to go in their faith. He doesn't answer many of the questions - that's for you to do - but he gently prods about church preferences, how you meet God, etc., hoping that in your answers you will find God. It's an interesting approach, and feels fresh. However, this book is geared toward people that are seeking answers to emotional questions about God. His other book in this series is geared for people seeking answers more intellectual questions. I didn't realize this or I would have purchased the other book, given that that's my doubt struggle.

Overall, a good book, and great to get discussion started about how people meet God. It reminded me that my ways are no less valid than my husband's, and that God uses our different personalities accordingly.

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CarSki7

Good for the logical Faith in God searcher

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2012

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Although this book is not as witty or techi-funny as Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, this is a good complement to that book. This author attempts at presenting a well balanced argument for the pros and cons or...the reality of finding faith. This book is 1 of 2 in a series. The authors other book, has nearly the same title, but is about using logic to help you make a conclusion on religion or none at all.

They are a good read, or listen to (if your e-device can read back the text to you...)

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Dan Duyser

Delivered by our Father Himself

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2010

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This book played a crucial role in me coming back to Christ. I work in a bookstore and see tons of books who's titles seem to promise too much - at first glance this book fits that mantra, but I can assure you it is anything but. Brian McLaren does an excellent job writing about what faith is and approaches it in a very inviting way. A recommended read for anyone with questions regarding the legitimacy of pursuing faith.

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Sam Todd

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2017

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Easy to read with good information.