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	• Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential Joel Osteen FaithWords, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 494 reviews view larger image
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Amazing Book

I have read this book before, but I brought this one for a friend of mine and he loved it. Truly inspiring and encouraging.

good biblically based advice on living your life

I actually attend Lakewood often. I listened to the audio book. I think the messages here are good ones. The guidance is biblically based. Pastor Joel Osteen refers to scriptures and bible stories throughout but he also weaves in real life stories and testimonies. As a Christian, I think what is need is encouragement on how to get through the valleys we'll all face and just generally how to stay positive in a world that can get your down. This book teaches you how to use God's guidance (via scripture and bible stories) to live a good life. This is not a book about in depth biblical study but don't discount it as fluff because it's not. For those considering the book remember, you can't please everyone and this book probably isn't for everyone but it's helped me and reinforced some things I've learned in my Christian walk and gave me a new perspective on things like the power of my words and thoughts and just helped me remember to view things in a positive light because God is good!

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Extremely Helpful & Encouraging, Despite Minor Flaws

What an inspiring and uplifting book! I don't condemn the critical reviewers of this publication, but I do pray for them. For far too long the gospel has been hijacked by the merchants of doom - as if fire, brimstone and damnation were the sum total of the message (you think there's fundamentalism in the USA? You should visit Northern Ireland!). Granted, the Scripture has dire warnings (2 Thess 1:8-9) for those who wantonly reject God's gracious offer of redemption through Christ's all-sufficient sacrifice. But what about his "great and precious promises" (2 Peter 1:4) for those who respond? Osteen's message is not that a daily river of material blessings should flow to each believer. There are 5 chapters in a row dealing with generosity! However, St. John said there's nothing negative about God (1 John 1:5) and St. Paul says we should focus on the positive (Php 4:8). Osteen certainly does. He knows the Christian life is not an easy life, but it's a GOOD life - hence his title. You might say "Oh, but the Christian life should be a daily struggle as we each take up our cross". Jesus said in this life we'd have many troubles - and Osteen deals with that topic - but our Lord and Master also assures us he has overcome the world! In other words, there's divine power available to you if you really want to overcome. Osteen challenges you to tap into that divine power. And why not? For a believer "The Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you" (Romans 8:11). Not your next door neighbour, YOU! Exciting, isn't it? The word "joy" appears 70 times in the NT alone. The word "hell" appears 14 times in the entire Bible!

But the book is not without flaws. Tithing is an exclusively OT doctrine. Out of my monthly nett salary, the landlady pockets $2,400 (my home is 4 metres wide). That's about 80%. Were I to donate half of what's left I'd either starve or freeze to death! Osteen's notion that "you can't afford NOT to tithe" is thoroughly unscriptural. Paul never said we're to give some portion of what we EARN. The Greek word "euodwtai" in 1 Cor 16:2 translates literally as "prosperity" (what economists call "discretionary income"), and no specific percentage is named. You will search the NT in vain for any injunction on Christians to tithe their earnings - gross or nett.

Unlike God "whose every word is flawless" (Pr 30:5), it's by fallible human beings that most books are written (and reviewed!!!). Overall, Your Best Life Now is an excellent book. Read it, then buy more copies to give your friends at Christmas!

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Fantastic book, I have read and reread it and have purchased many copies to give as gifts - everyone has loved it.

Natsayers - Please read Rev. Peale's Power of Positive Thinking

The book is wonderful, postive and uplifting. It reminded me very much of the books that Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a minister, wrote in the 1950's. Rev. Peale was considered the most influential spiritual writer of his generation. Today, Joel's books are just what Jesus would have ordered. Too bad you Christian folks don't follow Christ's teachings.

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