It’s about time, right? I’m so excited to share this one with you! N.D. Wilson’s Death By Living is just as good as his Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl, and I’m looking forward to going through it a second time because I quickly devoured it the first time around.
Here are a couple of the many passages I marked:
The world is big, yes. But God is bigger. Yes, your life is a story, but you are carpet-dwelling, dust-mite teensy on the scale of this stage, and number only one in the multitude of His cast.
Your world is tiny, yes. But God gets tinier. Not one dust mite falls through the carpet fibers and into the pad apart from your Father. He’s big enough that small doesn’t matter. Dust-mite drama doesn’t use up His attention, taking it away from something deemed by mentally incontinent college professors to be more worthy of His attention. When one is infinite, one can enjoy two black holes arm-wrestling over a galactic snack, and an uncoordinated junior high defensive end. Infinite goes all the way up and all the way down; and at every level, with equal attention, He creates with the full dose of His personality.
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Clear your throat and open your eyes. You are on stage. The lights are on. It’s only natural if you’re sweating, because this isn’t make-believe. This is theater for keeps. Yes, it’s a massive stage, and there are millions of others on stage with you. Yes, you can try to shake the fright by blending in. But it won’t work. You have the Creator God’s full attention, as much attention as He ever gave Napoleon. Or Churchill. Or even Moses. Or billions of others who lived and died unknown. Or a grain of sand. Or one spike on one snowflake. You are spoken. You are seen. It is your turn to participate in creation. Like a kindergartener shoved out from behind the curtain during his first play, you might not know what comes next, but God is far less patronizing than we are. You are His art, and He has no trouble stooping.
You can even ask Him for your lines.
For more, watch the book trailer here.
This is your chance to get this one for free! Just leave a comment with your favorite recent read, and you’re entered into the drawing. If you share this on Facebook, Twitter, or your own blog, let me know, and you’ll get additional entries. The drawing will close next Sunday evening at 9:00 pm E.S.T. If you’re the winner, you can choose either the hardback version or the Kindle edition. If you’ve already read it, enter anyway and win a copy to give away.
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Yes, yes! Enter me 😉
I recently read this one and of course I absolutely loved it, so if I win it I will give it away to one of my dear friends. ❤
I’d love to win a copy of my own to mark up. 🙂
I recently finished The Road and loved it. I’m thankful for a son who loves fiction and has encouraged me to read more of it.
I’ve read one McCarthy book, and I’d really like to read The Road.
WOW this looks like a great book! Would love to win. I have just finished reading Spiritual Mothering by Susan Hunt, loved it. Am now reading Housewife Theologian by Aimee Byrd and it’s great so far… 🙂
Sharing on twitter and Facebook! 🙂
Oups please do take this double off! Lol I thought I had lost it! Thank you
This book sounds wonderful! Just finished reading Because He Loves Me by Elyse Fitzpatrick. I believe I highlighted half the book. 🙂
Yep, that’s a good one.
Count me in, please! One of the best of my recent reads was Rosaria Butterfied’s “Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert.” Her story knocked my socks off!
Oh, I loved that one! Such an awesome story and very well written.
Ooh, I am glad you added that last part, because I have read this, and it is probably my favourite very recent read too – but I’d love to pass it on. Thanks!
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Yes, please enter me!
Currently I am reading Because He Loves me.
All about Grace…
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A good one!
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Please enter me in your giveaway. Thanks!
I am in the middle of listening to “To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain” and can already tell it will be a favorite of mine.
Thanks for the tip!
American Creation by Joseph Ellis. Thanks Anne!
Haven’t heard of that one. I’ll have to look into it.
“Answering God” by Eugene Peterson — All about the Psalms; so helpful as I prepare our women’s Bible study in the Psalms and so well-written. His vocabulary and insights are truly a joy to read and mull over.
I read that several years ago, and it is really, really good!
Thanks for the giveaway, Anne! I’m currently reading John Stott’s commentary on Romans and loving it: The Message of Romans: God’s Good News for the World
Oooooh, I’m sure that’s a good one!
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I’m also sharing on Facebook and Twitter. 🙂
Please Pick me!!! currently reading Spiritual Depression by Martin Lloyd Jones and How People change by T. Land and PD Tripp.
shared on Twitter
Spiritual Depression is one of my all-time favorites!
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Hello there. I have just finished reading all of Jane Austen’s novels (and couldn’t possibly say which one I liked the best.) Also recently read “Trusting God” by Jerry Bridges and currently reading “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley. All great books. Thanks for the giveaway.
I read Church History in Plain Language a couple of years ago as part of our homeschooling. I really enjoyed it.
I enjoy your blog. I am reading “The Secrets of Happy Families” by Bruce Feiler
Sounds good!
Thank you all so much for commenting and spreading the news elsewhere. The drawing is now closed. I’ll announce the winner soon.