Faith Beyond Reason

It's been a while since I have reviewed a book. Too long. I will definitely try to do this more often! In fact, I have been toying with the idea of starting a book club for a while now - but I don't know how interested people will be in doing one, and I also don't know if people would have the time. I guess I won't ever know unless I actually do it.

Anyway.

First off, I just want to say that AW Tozer is a great author. I have a read a few of his books now (I think this was my third?). And each one has been a blessing to me spiritually. I actually finished 'Faith Beyond Reason' a while ago now but I feel that I need to share how good it was - just to try encourage more people out there to read this and other AW Tozer books!

Like the majority of books I have in my growing collection, this was another acquirement from a book sale. Two bucks very well spent.

mine was a different cover
but ah well, you get the idea

Faith Beyond Reason is actually a collection of sermons preached by Tozer from the Gospel of John. In this book, Tozer covers a lot of ground - the book is about faith, but Tozer unpacks what faith means in light of conversion, the character of God, discipleship, conscience, hypocrisy, temptation/sin, holiness, and the truth. The great thing about this book (and a lot of Tozer's books) is that truths are simplified into digestable chunks. He can pack a lot (though not too much to overwhelm you) into one sentence, so it doesn't take him a lot of pages to get his point across.  

Because these were a collection of sermons from Tozer, I thought the book had a different style to previous books I had read by Tozer. Faith Beyond Reason had a lot more anecdotes and illustrations in it - though at times tangental, and often hilarious, they still helped to illustrate his point.

If you haven't treated yourself to a book by AW Tozer, get to it and maybe one day we can book club it up.