Desire
The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers

I bought this book on a whim and it has been one of those reads that really found me instead of the other way around. There is really no way for me to review this book because I think that Christian literature meets you in the place that you're at and the transformation that your heart undergoes is......more

This book was given to me but sat for some months unread - the introduction and opening chapter just didn't resonate. I just wasn't sure where it was going. I put it aside. Some time passed and then I decided to flick through it again, and fell upon the title of Chapter 6: 'The Divine Thwarter'. Int......more

I did not like this book. I did, however, love another one of his books; "Walking with God; Talk to Him, Hear from Him" . I believe timing of reading them in my life had everything to do with liking one book; not liking the other. I must be fair. I read this book while single, while going through so......more

There were elements of Eldredge's book that I loved. Yet, I sometimes found myself thinking he was going over the same things again and again. Also, I disagree with some of his philosophy. I absolutely loved Wild at Heart but didn't like this book as much. One portion of this book I did love was whe......more

John Eldredge’s The Journey of Desire is a book that met me right where I needed to be. The basic premise of this work is that people need to recover their desires, their true desires, and go after them. For believers, that means we need to thirst for and long for life with God that we also need to......more