A Kingdom Called Desire
Confronted by the Love of a Risen King

(Disclosure: I received this book for free in return for an unbiased review. I am not required to write a positive review. The opinions that follow are my own) "What is it we most deeply want?" "What do you want? What do you really want?" These are easy questions to ask ourselves, but incredibly hard o......more

This short book had one powerful idea in it. Most Christians today are not falling short in their relationship with Christ because of 'How?' questions. Rather many have failed to answer the simple question of 'Why?' in a satisfactory way. Their heart is perpetually restless for sin because it has ne......more

A really nice short read positing that Christians and Christian culture spend too much energy asking "how?" when the right questions to ask are about our desires-- "why?" and "what do you want?" We try to sate our deepest desires with religiosity or sin or achievement or family or whatever but ultim......more

very basic and simple point...that is what I enjoyed about it. But the depth of undiscovered life bound up in looking at our desires is overwhelming. Solid book and I appreciated the non-Bell like writing that was straightforward and didn't try to pull any punches by tweaking orthodox vocabulary.......more