Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter in an Urgent Day
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Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter in an Urgent Day  -     By: James Emery White

Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter in an Urgent Day

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Weilding his degrees in theology and history like twin daggers, White (A Search for the Spiritual: Exploring Real Christianity) lays bare the zietgeist, exposing the problems of postmodernity (pluralization, relativism, humanism) while concentrating on the solutions (prayer, discipline, reading to develop the mind), and especially those which we can exhibit in our own lives. The author brings such varied voices as Bruce Cockburn and Peter Kreeft to life as he portrays the giants of intellectualism as forming a still active troupe, rather than relying on history as a tableau.

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Title: Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter in an Urgent Day
By: James Emery White
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192
Vendor: InterVarsity Press
Publication Date: 2005
Dimensions: 8.25 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 9 ounces
ISBN: 0830833803
ISBN-13: 9780830833801
Stock No: WW833803

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  • A 2005 Evangelical Christian Publishing Association Gold Medallion finalist.

How can we make our lives matter?

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson lived in serious times. And, because they chose to live serious lives, they turned the course of history.

As the modern era transitions into postmodern turbulence, we, too, find ourselves in serious times. How can we make a difference in the world around us? How can we be an influence for Christ? Most important, how can we make our lives matter?

There is a a great movement of God set loose in the world. In this book, James Emery White explores what it means to be at the front lines of what God is doing. When serious times are met with serious lives, the kingdom of God is advanced.

Come and discover a life of significance.

Author Bio

James Emery White is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church and an adjunct professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, both in Charlotte, North Carolina. He holds M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees in theology, history and biblical studies. White is the author of eleven books, including A Search for the Spiritual and The Prayer God Longs For.

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Pastor and professor James Emery White offers a challenge to all Christians in his book, Serious Times. The primary question that weaves like a thread throughout the book is this: “Will your life matter in this urgent day in our nation?”
Combining his knowledge of theology and history, White serves as a guide through the Middle, Renaissance, and Enlightenment ages of our ancient world to today’s Postmodern era. He illustrates how an individual Christian, standing bravely alone, can influence the culture for good amid the spiritual crisis of each period.
Moral relativism, narcissistic hedonism, pluralism and numerous other “-isms” have each had their distinctive negative effects on the Christian fiber throughout the ages. Yet, in spite of the unraveling of those moral fibers, there were men and women who wanted their lives to count for good. These Christians marched across the landscape of history carrying a torch for righteousness in the midst of darkness.
White charges that it is once again time for Christians to step forward and pledge their lives to making a difference. Just as hurricane-force ocean waves change a coastline, so the past has reshaped religion, causing America to become a divine supermarket with personal religion being whatever suits one's taste. White proclaims that “Staggering numbers of ideologies and faith options compete for attention.” The media have become the giants that shape our perceptions and our opinions, persuading us that there is no such thing as truth. Personal pleasure and fulfillment are the ultimate concerns.
But down through the ages, the voices of those who came to call the world back to a true view of humanity in relationship to God were loud and clear. William Wilberforce, C.S. Lewis, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther and others became the models for us to follow. White gives the challenge when he proclaims, “Christ is the reformer of culture but he needs transformed lives through which to work. Individuals who’ve had their lives touched must now turn around and touch others.”
The reader who desires to understand the profound effect that the past has had on our culture, and even on our lives this very day, will find the book worth the read. As a history lesson, the book’s effectiveness could have been enhanced by an artistic timeline enabling us to “connect the dots” of the ages more easily. But as a spiritual challenge, it hit the bull’s eye of my heart and begged the question, “Am I willing to give my life to something that will live on long after I am gone, that will be bigger than I am, and will affect all of history–even into eternity?” -- Char Binkley, Christian Book Previews.com

Editorial Reviews

"A compelling charge to Christians regarding how they will seek to influence today?s world." -- Practical Homeschooling, July/August 2005

"It is quite a feat to write a reflective, historically grounded book about urgency, but James White has accomplished exactly that." -- Philip Yancey, Author of Reaching for the Invisible God

"My soul is quaking under the impact of this book. Rather than another yawning treatise on cultural demise, Jim White calls us to 'kick at the darkness till it bleeds light.' And the way we kick, he rightly assesses, is with 'deepened souls and developed minds.' Fill our churches, Lord, with such illumined saints, and start with me." -- Lon Allison, Director, Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College

"James Emery White has done it again. In this new work, Serious Times, he has given us not only a thorough analysis of the cultural challenges we currently face but a skillfully developed response that calls for the church to deepen our souls and develop our minds as we seek to answer the call of our day. White's well-written and readable volume is indeed a serious mandate for these serious times. The theological depth and careful thinking displayed throughout the book will strengthen pastors, teachers and laypeople who engage in these important issues. I heartily commend this book." -- David S. Dockery, President, Union University

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