One of my favorite preachers to listen to is Francis Chan, who is one intense dude – and his intensity is all directed towards Jesus – which is where I want mine to be!
Chan’s first book, Crazy Love, just came out. I read it last week and highly recommend it. You know how sometimes people will say, “It was like drinking from a fire hydrant”? Well, this book is like drinking from a baseball bat. It’s like Chan holds you down with one hand and beats you with a baseball bat held in the other. And I mean that in the best possible way.
The book is about the greatness of God, but even more about how we should respond to a God that amazing. Chan holds up the standards for true discipleship of Jesus, rather than of the modern-day American church. It’s scorching, again in the best possible way.
Go out and get this book, it’s challenged me in a way that no other book has in awhile.
I heard Francis at a conference last week. He’s Fantastic at beating me down, in a good way of course.
Hi, I’ve noticed that you’ve blogged about Crazy Love, by Francis Chan. Just wanted you to know that the videos to accompany the book are now available to download at:
http://www.crazylovebook.com/videos
Also, a Crazy Love small group dvd with never-before-seen content will be available in January. Because of your wonderful blog post about the book, I’d like to offer you a free pre-release copy of the dvd to review. Please email me your address, and I’d be happy to send it. Thanks!
Angela.Ralston@davidccook.com