This is an update on a post from 8/05/2006 to include a couple of additional reviews and comments.
First the additional reviews about this outstanding book:
http://www.theologyforthechurch.com/1/post/2010/12/good-christians-good-husbands.html and
http://abedis.posterous.com/a-review-good-christians-good-husbands
For this latter review, I include his final thoughts:
These questions and more are asked and answered in this short but profound little book. I read it in one setting and was positively convicted, wrecked and challenged to live my life with intentionality unlike before. I recommend - no, plead that every minister, layperson, wife and husband read this. Rarely will I tag a book with "must-read," but this is a MUST READ. Robbyn Abedi
I could not agree more with Mr. Abedi's encouragement. As a hobby, and as a coach, I regularly recommend books to people and there isn't one I point towards more than this one.
Author, scholar, mom, and wife Doreen Moore has done an incredible job portraying the most important part of any man's Christian life; his marriage, his ministry. But Ms. Moore did so while comparing not just marriage and ministry, but the lives of three of history's most visible Christian preachers: George Whitefield, Jonathon Edwards, and John Wesley.
This book will be one that will gradually catch on and talked about for years and years.
It is a must read for every Christian husband. Too many of us have bad viewpoints of our family life vs church life, even concerns about the balance, as if there is one. A friend and mentor once told me that when Jesus said to "go ye therefore..." He particularly meant "as you go about." We men, if married and/or with children, "go about" as husbands and dads more than we want to believe.
Doreen Moore does an great job telling the good, the bad, and the ugly truth of their impact and its legacy.
To that end...read well!
Danny
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