I had read just enough little bits of information about Carl Jung, the founder of psychoanalysis, to know that in his writings one perceives a capacity for the spiritual side of life.

In the pages of this powerful book, James Hollis will rock your psychological world. He himself experienced a midlife depression that moved him out of a 20-year career as a literature professor and into the broad field of Jungian analysis. So he knows personally whereof he speaks.

In addition to maintaining a private practice, Hollis is executive director of the C.G. Jung Educational Center of Houston.

In the pages of this book he will alert you to the many “derivative” factors that may have dictated or heavily influenced your life thus far. He may move you closer to the “original” that you truly are, or, in the language of psychology, he may put you in closer touch with yourself.

He treats a variety of presenting symptoms and clarifies the nature of the cause: if the soul can’t move us to its larger agenda for our lives through our natural proclivities and through dreams, it will hit us with sleeplessness, depression, and a host of other ills.

Hollis’ earlier mastery of literature greatly enriches this voyage for the reader.  

In his words, “The engagement of the soul’s agenda is our real task in life, and this journey is our real home.”

“Because God has loved you, He wants you to love Him as well . . .”

“What is the one thing God wants from you? He wants you to love Him with all your being . . . Your experiencing God depends on your having this relationship of love. A love relationship with God is more important than any other single factor in your life.”

These words from Experiencing God are the heart of the work.

Using “Seven Realities of Experiencing God” as a framework, Henry Blackaby and Claude King teach enlightening lessons – for example, God always takes the initiative in inviting you to become involved with Him in His work.

The seven realities include experiences that virtually always accompany this invitation.

The authors make the potentially transforming observation that your developing a loving relationship with the loving God Who pursues a relationship with you is more important to God than anything you could ever do for Him.

I can’t guarantee that on completing the reader’s journey through this book that your invitation to join Him in His work will immediately follow.

But I can tell you that within a few days of completing it that is exactly what happened to me.

Dyer awakens the spirit in The Power of Intention. By taking readers on a journey that he has experienced over his lifetime, Dyer guides them to recognize and respond to a higher purpose – an intention level that is higher than the superficial demands of the ego.

This book is not an autobiography; it is a verbal illustration of how Dyer lives his life and how readers can learn to appreciate and receive abundantly all that life has to offer.

I have purchased three copies of The Power of Intention, two of these as gifts, and will likely buy more as I see the chance to give this great book to others.

Stephen
Lawrence, Kansas

Good to Great is possibly the best guide to working in an organization, leading a business, or building a church, to be found anywhere. Jim Collins takes eleven outstanding (or I should say “great”) firms and compares each of them with a similar firm in the same line of business.

As Collins says, “… we took perhaps the most important step in the entire research effort: contrasting the good-to-great companies to a carefully selected set of ‘comparison companies.’ The crucial question is: What did the good-to-great companies share in common that distinguished them from the comparison companies?”

Collins isolates the fundamental differences and provides readers with sufficient information to equip them to use these concepts in their own unique situations.

The book stands out as an insightful study that provides clear concepts to facilitate greatness. If you want your organization to go from good to great, this book is a must read.

Stephen
Lawrence, Kansas

With the exception of the Bible, Unspoken Sermons by George MacDonald is the best book in my library.

The setting of MacDonald’s early life and writing was Victorian-era, Calvinist Scotland.

He was a profound seer who possessed both the literary gifts and education necessary to effectively articulate his scriptural knowledge and spiritual insight.

MacDonald’s is an enormous, resonant faith. He gets to the heart of scriptural meaning and events. His rendering of the temptation of Christ in the wilderness and of the raising of Lazarus extracts these stories’ most vital messages as their meaning applies to every person’s life.

MacDonald fearlessly takes on man-made theological doctrines and exposes both where and why they are false.

It has been observed that MacDonald’s unique message is the absolute perfection of God. This is right on the mark: “Of all things rid yourself of an impoverished faith.”

Readers will find familiar scriptures brought to mind here in a fresh and beautiful way, explained thoroughly, and rendered in a way that both enlarges and enlightens them.

Johannesen Publishing lists the MacDonald books it publishes along with this slogan: “To Uphold Another Century.” This is what Unspoken Sermons will do. It will get readers’ attention, enlarge their view of God, and cause His light to go up in their lives.

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