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    The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us through the Events in Our Lives

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    How differently would we live if we believed that every dimension of our lives---from the happy to the tragic to the mundane---were part of a beautiful and purposeful design in which no thread were wrongly woven? That's what best-selling author and internationally-known apologist, Ravi Zacharias, explores in The Grand Weaver.

    As Christians, we believe that great events such as a death or a birth are guided by the hand of God. Yet we drift into feeling that our daily lives are the product of our own efforts. This book brims with penetrating stories and insights that show us otherwise. From a chance encounter in a ticket line to a beloved father's final word before dying, from a random phone call to a line in a Scripture reading, every detail of life is woven into its perfect place. In The Grand Weaver, Dr. Zacharias examines our backgrounds, our disappointments, our triumphs, and our beliefs, and explains how they are all part of the
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan Audio
    Release dateJul 3, 2007
    ISBN9780310269540
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    • 4/5
      I was amazed at how the author could take an idea I already had and put it into words that not only crystallized the thought but added to my understanding of it. I will definitely be reading other books by Ravi Zacharias in the future.
    • 4/5
      The subtitle of this book is "how God shapes us through the events of our lives". The author expounds on this theme, illustrating his points with his usual logic and personal stories. I enjoyed it very much and would suggest it to anyone interested in Spiritual topics.
    • 4/5
      This is more a collection of thoughts around a certain theme than a linear narrative. Dr. Zacharias examines our lives as we perceive them vs. how God sees them. He suggests that though we are trapped in the everyday, and everything seems to happen to us in a jumbled sort of random way, in reality, God is working out a pattern that he has thought out ahead of time. In fact, the minutiae of our lives is meaningful and significant if we can only view it in the right context.
    • 5/5
      Ravi Zacharias God Bless your soul. Thanks for blessing us
    • 5/5
      I'm bias and really love Ravi Zacharias. This book was full of interesting tidbits of his many personal experiences in life and many valuable quotes and references to substantial works in various areas of study. His table of contents outline all those key issues of one's thinking that show be on a list of "things that really matter" when searching for meaning in life; Your DNA Matters, Your Disappointments Matter, Your Calling Matters, Your Morality Matters, Your Spirituality Matters, Your Will Matters, Your Worship Matters, Your Destiny Matters. Each chapter is world of its own dressed with a wealth of knowledge and insight. This is beyond a self-help book, or even an inspirational book. This book really challenges one to think (assuming you do really believe in the One True God of the Universe) ways to recognize and verify His awesome hand in working in your life. Dr. Zacharias really brings his points home by writing in a more personal level rather than focusing solely on theological and philosophical rhetoric. Naturally as an world-leading apologists he referenced and cited many works of philosophy, science, and theology, but the information wasn't overbearing and balanced enough to draw in the mind of the most ordinary and common person. I did find myself often checking back to the many subtopics to remind myself exactly what was at hand. It was difficult to stop in the middle of a chapter and resume where you left off without having to backtrack several pages. This may be due to the fact I was reading this book casually over the course of two weeks. Nevertheless, I do believe I would want to re-read this book in the future. It's a definite keeper.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. Very insightful and interesting in today's society.
    • 3/5
      I have listened to Ravi and even heard him speak at the Ligonier National Conference 2 years ago. He is a great speaker, has wonderful illustrations, and talks to practical topics. The Grand Weaver is the first book I’ve read by Zacharias. He does a good job with this book in illustrating various areas of our life that God designed and uses to weave our lives. In the chapter on our DNA he discusses how we should accept and celebrate our personality, that this begins our understanding of the Grand Weaver’s design for our lives. Then he discuss our disappointments, explaining that we need to allow our heart to be made tender by God, not callous, by the pains of this world. Then we must strenghten our mind through faith. And always, the cross should be primary, the bridge between him and us.The chapter on our calling defines it as “God’s shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.” Zacharias mentions that this calling may not always feel pleasing, but it will tug at the soul. We are encouraged to submit to God’s design and live a life of humility.I found the chapter on morality interesting. We cannot escape the need for morals but there is a lot of discussion about who creates morals. Morality can become legalism if it isn’t tempered with grace and mercy. Zachias mentions that perhaps the point to some of the parables isn’t what appears to be the main point. Perhaps the older brother was the real point to the story of the prodigal son. I find the story of repentance and acceptance (younger son and father) very reassuring, but the action of the older brother hits too close to home sometimes. Or maybe the real point of the stofy of the good Samaritan is the priest and Levite and their behavior. He uses another one - maybe the point to be learned from the women arriving first at the tomb was the fact that the disciples hadn’t. I think this one is the most surprising for me. I’ve always been amazed that the women were headed to the tomb even though they were aware that there was a big stone they couldn’t move, they trusted that a way to handle it would come up as long as they did what they needed to do. I wonder if the disciples didn’t go because they knew there was this big stone in the way?The chapter on spirituality gets to the point that it is truth what separates true spirituality from false spirituality. We are warned not to get sidetracked by ceremony or legalism. He discusses our will and how salvation also brings a change in our hungers. We will new things. But in our fallenness we often put our energy into peripheral or wrong pursuits instead of concentrating on following Christ alone. We are made to worship, it seems. But our worship belongs to God and we are too quick to turn to other things. In this chapter Zacharias talks about the church and how we are supposed to build each other up, bring hope and healing to each other. But too often there is pulling down, condemnation, and reprimand. Worship is primary and here Zacharias uses the imagery again, worhip “pulls the many threads of life into a beautiful whole.”He ends with a chapter about our Destiny; our eternal life in heaven being known by God and knowing God. I have always thought the image of being completely known is one of the most comforting allures of Heaven. I seldom feel truly understood and often don’t understand myself. To be known completely by a loving God, and perfected to boot, sounds wonderful!I am glad I read this book and found much to meditate on. I found his writing to be a bit distracted and had to search for his point a few times. He speaks much the same way, the stories and illustrations may be disconnected, but each is worthwhile and the effort required by the listener to interpret the whole out of the pieces is a good exercise.

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    • 4/5
      Not a horrible book... but not anything what I was expecting either. There were a ton of entry level take-aways from this book... but I didn't think he really answered his initial question and the book seems a little disjointed. This was the first Ravi book I have read... and I have heard that his others are much better. Either way, there are some really important thoughts to be found in this book... but just wasn't mind-blowing to me.