Book update: Kindle version is online; Nook coming soon!

The Kindle version of Between the Lines: Christianity for Misfit Christians ($4.99) is now available along with the paperback version ($9.00) on Amazon.com.

The Nook version should be up very soon; it already works on the Nook for PC software. Just a register/upload cycle away from Barnes and Noble!

For those of you with other eReaders, I have an ePub version (which is what Nook uses) that I need someone to try out. Volunteers?

The Dream Giver

I've been itching to write this for a month, and a thoughtful email from a friend pushed me over the edge. This book gave tongue to the words in my heart in 2003, and still re-inspires my convictions that God, the Dream-Giver, has placed in each of us a Big Dream. That dream, and the passion that comes with it, come straight from his own heart.

I'm not likely to improve on the back cover of the book, so here it is:

"Welcome to a little story about a very big idea. This compelling modern-day parable tells the story of Ordinary, who dares to leave the land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream."

"You, too, have been given a Big Dream. One that can change your life. One that the Dream Giver wants you to achieve. Does your Big Dream seem hopelessly out of reach? Are you waiting for something to someone to make your dream happen?"
 

Unfortunately, Dream Giver came out just as Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life was really getting up steam, ultimately selling 30M+ copies. "Purpose Driven" was on every church marquee in the country, it seemed. It completely overshadowed everything else at the time. Very driven, very get-it-done, and opposite my conviction that God is calling his children into his dreams, not driving his children like cattle to market-purpose. ("Purpose" is a great "planning" book, and way too many million people have had their lives changed for the better for me to bash it. But there's this other piece that sustains our purposes, the Dream, and that's my focus here.)

Our God is calling out the beauty he placed in each of us before the Creation, so that his "Word," us, will return to him having fulfilled his purposes for it and us. He's journeying with us in that return to the heaven-land from which we were conceived, through the joys and trials, always offering light and  companionship. When we pursue our dreams, there often comes a time when he says, "Let me show you something new. There's more. The best is yet to come." Dream Giver is a wonderful reminder of the One who will take you to your dreams and places beyond.