Don Nori - The Love Shack

THE LOVE SHACK

THE PLACE PEOPLE SEARCH FOR THAT

DRAWS THEM TO BEST SELLING BOOKS LIKE

The Shack, The Love Dare, Woman, Thou Art Loosed!,

The God Chasers, Your Best Life Now, and others.

THE LOVE SHACK

DON NORI SR.

Copyright 2009Don Nori

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BOOKS BY DON NORI SR.

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His Manifest Presence

How to Find Gods Love

The Hope of the Nation That Prays

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Tales of Brokenness

The Angel and the Judgment

The Love Shack

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Which road leads to the Love Shack?

What will get you to where you want to go?

The best answer is based on the question:

Where do you want to go?

W hat are we really looking for in a best-seller? I think were looking for answers to questions that many of usmillions of ushave about life now, and life after.

I need wonder to explain what is going to happen to me, what is going to happen to us when this thing is done, when our shift is over and our kids kids are still on the earth listening to their crazy rap music. I need something mysterious to happen after I die. I need to be somewhere else after I die, somewhere with God, somewhere that wouldnt make any sense if it were explained to me right now. Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz

Current best-seller Blue Like Jazz addresses the gray area of Christian matter. Appealing to every persons deepest thoughts, desires, and hopes, this book raises spirit-probing questions that many dont dare askyet long to know the answers. Intellectual assent will no longer suffice. Reason does not provide rest for the soul. We long for more. We long for reality. We know deep down inside our hearts that we can touch eternity in this life. No amount of doctrinal drivel will change the reality of truth and passion. We want to touch God. Here. Now.

I dont just want to know what there is in the afterlifethat stuff is easy to believe since I will experience it after this life is overbut I find myself asking, Is this all there is to Christianity? Do we give our hearts to the Lord for only the life to come? Are we really doomed to struggle with the fears of divine rejection, hopelessness, and near-eternal fatal sins our whole lives? I am here now to simply hang on until I die? For me, it is hard to imagine that Jesus did all that He did just to populate Heaven. Surely there must be destiny, fulfillment, and happiness here in this life. Dare I hope for more?

The old traditional religious beliefs dont work for me anymore. I am certain you have heard some of them: Christians are not promised happiness, only joy. (Huh?) If you are even moderately wealthy, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Christians are doomed to suffer; it is our lot in life. (Hmmm. Cant wait!) God doesnt personally speak to believers anymore. (Great foundation for a relationship!) I am sure you can add to this dismal list of religious excuses for not experiencing the fullness of our salvation in this life as well as the next.

In William Youngs popular novel The Shack, the author pulls our faith out of our brains and back into our hearts, the only place it can grow and prosper.

Gods voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerners access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book. Especially an expensive one bound in leather with gilt edges, or was that guilt edges? Freedom is an incremental process.

Both of these books are written by men who challenge todays religious status quo, bringing readers to the edge of their assigned pews and leaving them wondering: Is there something more? Is a deeper spiritual relationship possible? Is there a meaning and purpose to my life beyond working, eating, sleeping, dying? Am I really just a pawn, as the old clichs proclaim? Does anybody love me? Am I really alone? Can the divine affect my life here and now?

I dont want to be a pawn or a tool or a vessel or a worker bee. I want to know that I am loved in this dimension and in every dimension through which I pass. I want to know that divine love can be felt, yes, felt from God directly to the depth of my soul in a tangible, recognizable way. I want to know that this divine love is not fickle and moody and subject to my failures and my mistakes. I dont need a god who is just like me, or any other human being for that matter, who is inherently off balance and skewed. I need the anchor for my soul to be just that, the anchor. I need Godwho offers a steady, reassuring sense of love and commitment to me, even when I am not doing so well. This is the God whom I dare to love!

After 36 years of marriage to my extremely divine wife, Cathy, I can tell you that I have truly come to understand and experience Gods love for me in a very real way through her. It is as though I stumbled into a relationship that was and still is much bigger and much more profound that I can ever comprehendtrue love.

Unconditional love is eagerly promised at weddings, but rarely practiced in real life. As a result, romantic hopes are often replaced with disappointment in the home. But it doesnt have to stay that way. The Love Dare

Love. What hasnt been written about love since the first writing utensil hit the first flat surface? Yet people still search for the answer to true love. The Love Dare was published in 2008 and has sold more than 300,000 copies; and at this writing, it is still going strong! Considering that most books sell an average of 9,000 copies,