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Kingdom of God is a Party., 2005-09-29
This is one great book about an Awesome God, and how the concept of celebrating at God's all inclusive party, which can be wherever we are in any situation! Some new ideas that make sense. Praise the Lord!!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
quick easy inspirational read, 2004-07-14
Some religious folks are so serious, humorless, uptight, and narrow-minded. It doesn't have to be that way. The wonderful quality of this book is that it makes God and faith exciting! In an inspiring, informative, and Biblically sound way, the author shows how living the Word of God can and should be a joyous and spiritually rejuvinating and uplifting (and FUN!) thing and that many of us believers need to re-capture that same spirit and verve. It shows how doing good, living through positivity and love, and leading the lonely, the oppressed, etc to their loving Heavenly Father can be a deeply enriching experience both personally and spiritually.David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
There are better books by Campolo, 2001-10-19
I think Tony fails to get over the main message of his book, values, values and values, through trying to be clever and presenting the Kingdom as a party. The reader is left sruggling with the novelty when getting the message over could be better achieved by not forcing the word party over the top of more appropriate words. Having said that, the message of relationship, joy, living life to the full and living Christianity is there in typical Compolo style for those who can overcome the language. Normaly I think Campolo is an excellent communicator but communicates batter in other books he has written. Choose another Campolo book if you are unfamiliar with the authors beleifs and values, you'll prefer it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
I have to admit., 2001-07-05
I like this book a lot. The title seems sacreligious, but his points are backed up with scripture. The only reason I didn't give it 5-stars is because he doesn't discuss the full range of scriptural teaching on the kingdom of God. But that's okay...after all, I suspect that his purpose in writing this book was only to focus on this one aspect of it. The book is an easy read and I recommend it wholeheartedly.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
An eye opener, 2000-04-19
As usual Tony approaches this topic from a different angle than most. His thesis is that we've somehow lost touch with the joy and happiness of being part of God's Kingdom. From his fresh view of the tithe (10% of national income devoted to a party with God) to buying a prostitute a birthday cake as a demonstration of love, he makes a good case for why we're not enjoying our walk with God and why those who are not believers aren't all that interested about what we have.