"The best book I have read this millenium" is on Vyrso!

No, this is not the exclamation of a mid-western housewife home maker about the latest Amish romance novel (indicating rather someone who reads approx one book per decade), but this is well-known Baptist blogger Wade Burleson's verdict about a book on the kingdom of God. He put his review onto his blog as "A must have book" - and he really really makes a compelling case for going out and buying it (he lifts it over ten thousand historical books in his library and head over shoulders of the contemporary stuff!)

The book, by the way, is written by a professor Streett at Criswell College, Dallas, and endorsed by not only Wade, but also by people as diverse as Ed Stetzer and Brian McLaren. I immediately checked for a Kindle version (bad habit, I know) and found it's below ten dollars at Amazon. Search for it yourself if you want to read the customer reviews (all of them give five stars). There seems to be no ePub version at alternative retailers, so (better habit) I checked Logos.com (no hit) and finally Vyrso.com - and it's not only here, it's even cheaper than elsewhere!

https://vyrso.com/product/32908/heaven-on-earth-experiencing-the-kingdom-of-god-in-the-here-and-now

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Joseph Turner

Thanks for the suggestion. It looks interesting!

Milford Charles Murray

Peace, Mick! Thank you for your "reference"! *smile* Just ordered it and will be excited to begin reading it later today! Much appreciated!

God Bless You for all your many and various "sharings" with your brothers and sisters on these Logos Forums!

Sherri Huleatt

Sounds like a great read! Thanks for sharing this, NB. Feel free to share your feedback with Vyrso's new Ratings and Reviews feature!

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499291#Comment_499291

I will - after I've read it [:)]

And I think I will do good on my introductory remarks and post a review on an Amish romance novel...

George Somsel

I wonder how many books he read in the previous millennium. He must be a really old codger!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499298#Comment_499298

I wonder how many books he read in the previous millennium. He must be a really old codger!

You've probably got him beat.

EDIT: Just realized we've all read plenty of books in the previous millennium. We just rolled over to a new millennium about 13 years ago.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499294#Comment_499294

I think I will do good on my introductory remarks and post a review on an Amish romance novel...

Just did so, check out http://vyrso.com/product/14100/paradise-valley (which is free, by the way).

I know that some people like to make fun of Vyrso and claim it's just Amish romances (actually there are only 242 hits for "Amish" in a catalog of over 12 thousand books), and I normally wouldn't look at these, but I tend to take 95% of all free books offered here (no, I'm a slight bit more discerning regarding free Kindle books) and found this one a nice read with more to it.

But Vyrso is much more, I think only one third of my Vyrso books are fiction at all - and occasionally, real gems are among the Vyrso offerings. If "Heaven on Earth" lives up to what the reviewers say (and the look-into pages from Amazon I read), it's definitely one of them.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499304#Comment_499304

What's an effective way to filter out novels in the Vyrso app?

Peter

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499304#Comment_499304

Just purchased this book on Vyrso.com but its not showing up in e Vyrso or Logos app. How long should it take? Just curious.

Peter

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499299#Comment_499299

I wonder how many books he read in the previous millennium. He must be a really old codger!

You've probably got him beat.

I have no way to know whether I've read more books than he or not since I don't know how many he has read (for that matter, I don't know how many I have read). [:D]

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499314#Comment_499314

How long should it take? Just curious.

Resource purchases are typically instantaneous. There was a problem yesterday with the servers & purchases… I don't know if they are still having troubles or not. I assume you used the same username & password, right?

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499320#Comment_499320

I wonder how many books he read in the previous millennium. He must be a really old codger!

You've probably got him beat.

I have no way to know whether I've read more books than he or not since I don't know how many he has read (for that matter, I don't know how many I have read).

I could have meant that, but I could also have meant that you were an even older codger than he is. I left it up to you how to interpret it, because whatever your first instinct was, I could always say you were wrong and I actually meant the other thing. But I really was thinking of both. [;)]

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499325#Comment_499325

I wonder how many books he read in the previous millennium. He must be a really old codger!

You've probably got him beat.

I have no way to know whether I've read more books than he or not since I don't know how many he has read (for that matter, I don't know how many I have read).

I could have meant that, but I could also have meant that you were an even older codger than he is. I left it up to you how to interpret it, because whatever your first instinct was, I could always say you were wrong and I actually meant the other thing. But I really was thinking of both.

How can you say that when I've made it clear that I will be 39 on my next birthday? [;)]

Eric Weiss

No, this is not the exclamation of a mid-western housewife home maker about the latest Amish romance novel (indicating rather someone who reads approx one book per decade), but this is well-known Baptist blogger Wade Burleson's verdict about a book on the kingdom of God. He put his review onto his blog as "A must have book" - and he really really makes a compelling case for going out and buying it (he lifts it over ten thousand historical books in his library and head over shoulders of the contemporary stuff!)

The book, by the way, is written by a professor Streett at Criswell College, Dallas, and endorsed by not only Wade, but also by people as diverse as Ed Stetzer and Brian McLaren. I immediately checked for a Kindle version (bad habit, I know) and found it's below ten dollars at Amazon. Search for it yourself if you want to read the customer reviews (all of them give five stars). There seems to be no ePub version at alternative retailers, so (better habit) I checked Logos.com (no hit) and finally Vyrso.com - and it's not only here, it's even cheaper than elsewhere!

https://vyrso.com/product/32908/heaven-on-earth-experiencing-the-kingdom-of-god-in-the-here-and-now

Just in case you wanted to know...

Based on the excerpts I read at Amazon.com "Look Inside!" after signing in with my account, I think Wade Burleson's praise is a bit hyperbolic. And while Burleson in his Amazon review says "Heaven on Earth is easy to read without being puerile (childish), serendipitous, or (for lack of a better word) silly," I felt that what I read of the book preview was quite a bit below the level this subject merits, even for a lay audience.
I suspect the book is somewhat of an outgrowth of this, which is from his bio page at Criswell.edu: "Kingdom-Driven Evangelism." Peer-evaluated paper given at the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education national meeting, Washington, DC, October 2005.
When I did a Logos search for the uses of "gospel" and its related lemmas (euaggelion, etc.), it became apparent that the terms were often connected with "kingdom" (and hence "King"), and thus any proclamation of the Gospel needs to relate to the Kingdom and its King if it's to be faithful to Jesus' message. For many people whom I know this is not a new idea or new understanding of the New Testament or the Bible, though maybe for Streett and many of his salvation-oriented fellow Baptists it is.
Though I haven't finished it yet, it might share a lot with Scot McKnight's The King Jesus Gospel (or maybe it doesn't; I didn't see McKnight's name listed in the chapter Notes at the end).
YMMV, of course. [H]

Streett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/499346#Comment_499346

As the author of Heaven on Earth, I assure you this book is not an outgrowth of a 15 page ETS paper. It is the result of ten years immersed in Kingdom of God studies. I have read every major work on the kingdom and most minor works. I interact with the latest scholarship on the topic. Hopefully, you will read it and be captured by the kingdom as I have been. Blessings.

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/503710#Comment_503710

As the author of Heaven on Earth, I assure you this book is not an outgrowth of a 15 page ETS paper. It is the result of ten years immersed in Kingdom of God studies. I have read every major work on the kingdom and most minor works. I interact with the latest scholarship on the topic. Hopefully, you will read it and be captured by the kingdom as I have been. Blessings.

Welcome to the forums Alan and thank you for stopping by to comment here. I look forward to reading your book.

I hope that you will participate in the forums more in the future.

Milford Charles Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/503718#Comment_503718

As the author of Heaven on Earth, I assure you this book is not an outgrowth of a 15 page ETS paper. It is the result of ten years immersed in Kingdom of God studies. I have read every major work on the kingdom and most minor works. I interact with the latest scholarship on the topic. Hopefully, you will read it and be captured by the kingdom as I have been. Blessings.

Welcome to the forums Alan and thank you for stopping by to comment here. I look forward to reading your book.

I hope that you will participate in the forums more in the future.

Peace, Alan! *smile* It is indeed pleasant for us on these Logos Forums to have the great honour of your dropping by to share a quick greeting! Thank you!

I most certainly echo Bruce's words! *smile* I bought your book near the end of June and am enjoying it immensely!

Please stop by again when you have opportunity and chat with us a bit, eh???