Brad Hambrick

A useful book which offers practical spiritual guidance and reasonable solutions to address time management which may affect burnout. I would say the biggest benefit to this book is that it is 40 pages long and does not dwell too long on any one subject. However, I felt that the suggestion to budget time took a larger part of the book than necessary and could be a distraction. The beginning discussion on what burnout is and the symptoms of burnout one can use to diagnose are invaluable and make the book worth reading again.… (más)

Too often the teaching of the church (when there is such teaching) has been at the polar extremes of either total, unnuanced condemnation of individuals who experience same sex attraction or total acceptance of not only the individual, but also the ensuing behavioral identities arising from same sex attraction. Both of these extremes miss the mark in different ways, and in this book the author addresses what is a healthier, more biblical view. There's a lot more that can and should be said about this subject than what a 100-page book can contain, but Brad Hambrick makes a good and valiant effort to kick-start conversation on what has been a very sensitive and controversial subject within the christian church. This is a very accessible, quick read that can help individual Christians examine and change how they view and interact with people around them who experience same sex attraction, while not compromising biblical doctrine on sexuality.… (más)

A nice, practical-minded study on the Beatitudes (Matthew v, the beginning of the Sermon on the mount), it suffers from using modern, psychological-sounding vocabulary that did not sit well to this fourth-generation Evangelical with Reformed leanings; perhaps new converts will fare better. The ‘vulnerability’ language did not click with me as being anywhere Biblical, even if sometimes it made sense by mentally translating it into ‘humility’.

It also broke my expectations of being just like other titles in the series, that deal with real personality, emotional issues people have, such as borderline personality, depression, burnout; I expected to read a booklet on how to deal with the paralysing fear of vulnerability that characterises some people I know and have to deal with daily.… (más)