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kstephensreads's review against another edition
5.0
This will be a book I revisit, probably in a hard copy over an audio. It resonates with me in our current season of preparing to launch our oldest, in the strange melancholy that sometimes comes in middle age, in the temptation to despair when we compare our current times to what was or what we hoped would be, in the frantic pace that our culture seems to impose. It is a call to rest and trust and live faithfully in our seasons, to find God ever faithful and unchanging. I want to reread Mark Buchanan’s The Rest of God and then reread this, as they seem to speak to each other in my mind.
jenlovesferns's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
persistent_reader's review against another edition
5.0
As human beings, we live in time. We have histories. We carry baggage from the past with us. As Christians, redemption isn’t meant to make us atemporal and efface how time has affected us. Rather God orders and knows our times and is with us in them to make all those things new.
Smith is one of my favorite authors. Thoughtful, wise, and giving the reader new ways to think and live as a whole person. This book did not disappoint.
Smith is one of my favorite authors. Thoughtful, wise, and giving the reader new ways to think and live as a whole person. This book did not disappoint.
horatiovws's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
gjones19's review against another edition
5.0
Absolutely captivating. The theology, the writing, the reflections on history and time - I loved it! And I’ll need to chew on these ideas for a long, long time.
dbg108's review against another edition
4.0
Much to appreciate in this pastoral and reflective meditation on time. I'm not convinced that Christianity is essentially an event, as Smith argues throughout. But the present-ness of time and the Spirit certainly invite us to consider the many gifts in our individual and collective pasts, presents, and futures.