World Changers
How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things

Every year at my church we give out hundreds of backpacks for school to families in the neighborhoods surrounding our church. It’s kind of a big deal at our church. There is music, candy, food, backpacks, school supplies, and prayer tents. Last year a woman gave a 3 minute sermonette at a planning m......more

This was a good read. My biggest issue with it was that Laurie repeated the same ideas over and over and over. There would be some new ideas in each chapter, but then he would ultimately end up bringing it back to these same concepts for each Hero he talked about. The final chapter was the best in t......more

Hebrews 11 could be called the Heroes Hall of Faith or a roll call for who in the Bible deserve to be called Earth Changers. Each of these heroes had great faith in God but were far from perfect people. In fact, in some ways they were more flawed than you and I. Yet God used them to change the world......more

The key is faith Pastor, author, and speaker Greg Laurie talks about ordinary people in his book "World Changers. How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things", published by Baker Books. He defines a World Changer in the introduction of the book: "A world changer is simply an individual—ma......more

Greg Laurie looks at what we can learn about living the Christian life well from examining the walks of several of the people mentioned in Hebrews 11. I normally like to spread books on Christian life like this over several days but my copy of this audiobook was about to expire so I plowed through it......more