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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House (1 Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0310234492
  • ISBN-13: 978-0310234494
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,490 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #28 in  Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian Living > Testimony & Inspiration
    #44 in  Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Theology
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Reveals the God you've longed to encounter: a Father head-over-heals in love with you and committed to your highest joy.

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How Do You Explain a Love That Has No Explanation? What will happen if you let it touch your heart?

God loves you not because you are flawless, not because you are a perfect person, but just because you are.

In Love Beyond Reason, John Ortberg reveals the God you’ve longed to encounter: a Father head-over-heels in love with you, his child, and intensely committed to your highest joy. Ortberg takes you to the very core of God’s being to discover a burning, passionate love that gives, and gives, and gives. He explores the life-changing ways this love has expressed itself through Jesus. And he shows how you, like Jesus, can love your mate, your family, your friends, and the world around you with the same practical, transforming love.

Dispelling your fears and misconceptions of God, Love Beyond Reason brings you face-to-face with the Love that frees and empowers you to love.

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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, inspirational, simple., 15 Feb 2005
By C. Chambers (Shenfield, UK) - See all my reviews
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Love Beyond Reason is a deeply moving book. John Ortberg uses the analogy of being a much loved but in need of some attention rag doll to great effect. A rag doll may be broken, scruffy, in desperate need of sorting out, but it is an object of great affection to its original owner. He writes "God doesn't just love you because He has to, He loves you because He wants to....God likes to love you."

He takes us through a very helpful chapter called "Love Pays Attention" which is so simple but true. "God notices things your mother has never even thought about." God pays attention to you, focuses on you, God sees. Through the 12 chapters, we journey through God touching the untouchables, being the Lord of the second chance, the teacher, leading us in "the roundabout way" because that is the way that is best. Many people have written about the desert or wilderness experience with God. This is also a helpful chapter on this subject, exploring how the word of God's love can often mean so much more in the barren places. To be loved when you are getting everything right, that's easy to believe. To be loved when you are getting it all wrong and "feel you may be more hindrance than help to whatever work God may be doing in the world" - that is simply amazing. That's grace. "That's life to someone who's dying."

His chapters on being safe in God's love and on the whole issue of hiding are just so wonderful. God as your protector, whether you can see it or not. God absolutely for you and fiercely defensive of you. His last chapter on The Ragged God speaks of God becoming flesh in Jesus, experiencing the raggedness of human life and in that we see His glory. "His glory is not just His power and might and majesty. His glory is that He would come to this corner of the universe....to a ragged people He could not bring Himself to discard. One day He laid aside His majesty and bliss and came knocking at your door. One day He came just for you."

This is a book that does what is says. It moves the love of God from your head to your heart if you will let it. It "frees and empowers you to love." I commend it to you.

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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars God loves YOU, and He loves you as you are, 7 Sep 2000
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"Her name was Pandy," the story begins. Pandy was a doll which was once adorable, but now only a rag doll. There was no reason anymore to like Pandy. But the girl did love Pandy, and loved her so much that Pandy became lovable to anybody who loved the girl!

With pictures like this John Ortberg shows us God's love to "rag dolls" like us. A love beyond reason and comprehension, a love that simply is.

The book also retells several stories from the gospels. "Jesus touched the leper." Yes, go on? Read it again: "Jesus TOUCHED the leper!" A man carrying af deadly, horrible, contagious disease that had made him an outcast, a man you would not even like to see. But Jesus loved him so much that he saw him and touched him. He also healed him, but suddenly it doesn't look like the greatest miracle in the story.

Every chapter has something new to tell, every time showing new aspects of God's immense love for us. If you doubt God really loves you, let this book be an eye-opener. If you already know God loves you, read the book to learn more about how much this means. Highly recommended for anybody.

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ortberg's book is almost must reading for parish pastors., 19 Oct 1998
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John Ortberg's latest book is one of a few that brings joy to my reading life.  It meets three criteria I have for my favorites as a parish pastor with strong constraints on my time. 1. It was personally enriching,  2. It will be helpful to many of my parishoners, 3. It will give me lots of sermon illustrations.

John Ortberg is one of those wonderful pastors who preaches well and people love to hear him preach --  and writes well -- and people love to read him. Years ago a woman who had been abused by her husband and went through a horrible divorce told me that as much as she believed intellectually that God loved her -- she could not accept emotionally that God loved her. I gave her John Powell's book, "Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am."  She said it helped.  Now, if I can just find her again, I want to send her, "Love Beyond Reason." It will not only give some help, it will encourage some healing.

Once in a while a book comes along that ends up on every parish pastor's book shelf.  This is one of those books. Get one for yourself and another for your church library. (After you've used all the illustrations!)

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