In conclusion, this bad judgment of comers causes me to put him a notch lower on the epic list of fantastic authors, unfortunately. Today, love is a junk-drawer term that is overused – there are no less that 28 entries in dictionary dot-com to define love. Her advice, opinions and expertise appear weekly in countless podcasts, magazines, and online news sources around the world such as The Huffington Post, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, British GQ, Men’s Health, Women’s Health and many more.

John's definition of love is blatant and clear-cut—"This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Place me like a seal over your heart,like a seal on your arm;for ahava is as strong as death,its jealousy unyielding as the grave. This is a book for singles, engaged couples, and the newly married--both inside and outside the church--who want to learn what the Scriptures have to say about sexuality and relationships. Finally— a theology of love that will help you navigate the confusing waters of modern relationship.For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Overall, I really couldn’t keep up in the second half and I honestly don’t think JMC could keep up with himself either.

But Jesus, the embodiment of the creator God, the God who made humans from the dust on the street right outside the door, picks up a towel and starts to clean the grime from between John's toes. He holds a Master's degree in Biblical and Theological Studies from Western Seminary and is the author of two previous books: Loveology and Garden City. This is a book for singles, engaged couples, and the newly married - both inside and outside the church - who want to learn what the scriptures have to say about sexuality and relationships. His passion is the intersection of spiritual formation and post-Christian culture, and to that end, he is regularly found reading the desert fathers and mothers, ancient saints and obscure contemplatives, modern psychologists and social scientists, and op-eds from the New York Times. All of that said, while somewhat disappointing, Loveology is much more balanced and nuanced than most other marriage books of this era, and definitely kinder to women and wives in general.Whether they need help healing from the loss of a loved one or healing from lack of self-love, you will have the skills to help them with unique loving holistic skills that you can only learn here! And while this is probably more on the publisher (Zondervan) than on Comer, it limits the audience to primarily young, single girls. The book plays into common weaknesses of soft complementarian, evangelical talk of love and sex (which I've heard and received most of my life).

Sex, love, marriage, romance, dating and singleness - what went wrong after the Garden of Eden beginning? Loveology uses cookies and similar technologies to provide you with our services, enhance the performance and functionality of our services, analyze the use of our products and services, and assist with our advertising and marketing efforts. I guess I wasn't listening when the experts said that people who marry young have higher divorce rates. This idea of Jesus as the model for how we are to love each othersounds docile and tame and cliché, but when we actually readabout the life of Jesus, it's stunning.And likewise, as I have described, progressive and liberal Christians will have points of agreement but will likely be turned off by the gender and sexual orientation discussions. If I take the position of his intended audience - moderately conservative evangelicals - I'd rate this in the four to five (out of five) range. And for people who want to ask the why questions and get intelligent, nuanced, grace-and-truth answers, rooted in the scriptures. Comer’s not a deep diver, however, and many times throughout this book I wish he would have pressed further, wrestled more, and got specific about the implications and consequences of the concepts he chooses to touch on.

During an analogy in which comer is explaining how you should not let yourself be put in situations where you might be tempted to sin, he says you should not be with someone your dating on the same couch, with the candles lit, and Bon Iver playing. Seems like there are different sections within a chapter that help and allow you to understand and explore the differences between different season. When Jesus finished with the disciples' feet, he asked, "Do you understand what I have done for you? It’s a weird vibe—like Tim Keller meets Mark Driscoll meets Josh Harris meets John Eldridge meets Elisabeth Elliot.

However, in my reading of the book, he does not appear quite so rigid when it comes to his hermeneutics of the Bible. We provide you with all the relationship coach training, skills, tools and certification you need to help you start a successful career in this fast-growing field. In English, we have just the one word— love —to denotea wide range of positive emotion, but in Hebrew, there's a handful,and each one draws out a specific nuance.