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God in Slow Motion: Reflections on Jesus and the 10 Unexpected Lessons You Can See in His Life
God in Slow Motion: Reflections on Jesus and the 10 Unexpected Lessons You Can See in His Life
God in Slow Motion: Reflections on Jesus and the 10 Unexpected Lessons You Can See in His Life
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God in Slow Motion: Reflections on Jesus and the 10 Unexpected Lessons You Can See in His Life

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Jesus was not in a hurry.

He had only three years of public ministry—three years to heal and teach and change the world—but the Bible never tells us he was rushing through them.

We are the ones who rush through them. Catching the gist of this parable. Smiling at the punch line in that dialogue. We can race through the Gospels in hours, fully briefed on Christ’s life, but hardly changed.

Until we sit down with Mike Nappa’s God in Slow Motion. Nappa hasn’t carved up the Gospels for quick review or sliced them into tiny pieces for academic study. He has taken ten important moments from the life of Christ and reveled in them, chewing on their words, relating them to life, comparing them with modern culture, allowing the Spirit to work, and letting Christ change him. 

The result is a rich, personal, and biblical narrative about Jesus and how His purposes unfold, then and now. See how God is sneaky about his glory. How he presents evidence for belief. How he can be comforting and terrifying at once. This is the “good news” in all its many-splendored wonder: the life of Christ, frame by frame.

And it is worth every minute because it will change you too.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherThomas Nelson
Release dateAug 20, 2013
ISBN9781400204632
God in Slow Motion: Reflections on Jesus and the 10 Unexpected Lessons You Can See in His Life
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Mike Nappa

Mike Nappa is an award-winning, Arab-American author and editor of Christian books and ministry resources. He holds a master's degree in English and a bachelor's degree in Christian Education, with an emphasis in Bible theology. He is a contributing writer for Crosswalk.com, Christianity.com, Beliefnet.com, and TheGospelCoalition.org. Mike served in ministry for years and co-authored a number of books with his wife, Amy, before losing her to cancer in 2016.

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    Not the type of book I usually read—it’s more inspirational than educational, more conservative than liberal—but this one is really good. The author promises that through ten “lessons” (events from the New Testament) he will take you on a journey, “traveling the road of Christ’s life in search of the underneath things.” That’s what Nappa means by “God in slow motion;” slowing down the New Testament stories frame-by-frame to catch a glimpse of the real people who came in contact with Jesus.Many of the ten “lessons” are borderline oxymorons, highlighting the complex simplicity (see, I can do it too!) of God’s nature. Beautiful sorrow, brutal love, insulting greatness. Mysteries, each, and God loves a mystery. Like the mystery of God’s unexplained entrance as a baby rather than a warrior, or the mystery of how things all seem to turn out alright when God is in control.Do not miss chapter 5, “Stolen Miracles.” The unnamed woman with an issue of blood will earn a special place in your heart, as she tries to steal a miracle. She fights through a crowd to touch the hem of Jesus’ garment, hoping to be healed. The coup succeeds, the getaway doesn’t.Imagine her fear when Jesus goes looking for her in the crowd. “Virtue” has gone out of him, and he’s determined to find out where it went. But if she is exposed, it will not only bring her embarrassing malady to light; it will inform dozens, maybe more, that she has broken the law and made the crowd unclean by brushing up against them. Yes, she was a legal outcast, required to keep her distance from people. Things are about to get ugly, right?No. Not with Jesus in control. Nor will it in your journey with Jesus. As Nappa encourages in the last line of his book, “May you always be found holding the nail-scarred hand!”

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