Book Review & A Giveaway!

A few years ago when I was new to twitter a young, spiky-haired Pastor from Nashville started following me. His tweets were genuine, funny, and Christ-centered. But I quickly came to realize he's not your
average Pastor. He tweets a lot about his beautiful family.
But what captivated me quickly about Pete Wilson was how well & deeply he loves people.
He's so incredibly passionate about his community, and I don't just mean in Nashville.
He leads the very popular Cross Point Church but I'd say his biggest impact is
leading others even outside Nashville to a more devoted relationship with Christ. 

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After following him on twitter for a bit I soon started following his blog as well. It quickly became a second devotional for me every morning. Daily Pete stretches my concepts of faith, my personal relationship with God, and especially my commitment to love others. Frankly, in the last 2 years I've learned more from listening, reading & watching Pete love others than I'd learned in all my years of church. 

His first book Plan B is one of my favorites! It is so well written in a spirit of love and redemption, that came to me at a point in my life when I really needed to be reminded of God's grace. But his latest book Empty Promises was so good that I read it twice. After I read it initially, practically highlighting every page, my husband wanted to read it so we studied our way through it together. It's not a heavy, wordy textbook, but it is a life-application of God's Word that kept me focused from start to finish.

Watch the trailer for the book (below) and you'll see what I mean:

When I read the subject matter was about idols that block our relationship with God, I really thought this might not apply to me. Ha! Just typing out that admission of arrogance is embarrassing to me now.

Pete so eloquently and gently pointed out how we all battle habits that get in the way of our worship and relationships with a God. Most importantly, he teaches through God's Word how to recognize what it is in your life that's hindering you from utter devotion and how to allow God to fix it. My favorite quote from Pete's book came towards the end: 

"We think what we want is a bigger title, better looks, more popularity, larger sums of money, the perfect spouse. However, what we really want is the person we were made for - Jesus - and the place we were made for - heaven."

Everybody's looking for great books to read this summer
and I can't encourage you enough to add Empty Promises to your list.


In fact I love it so much I've decided to
Give Away a copy to one of y'all!!


There are no hoops to jump through to enter. You don't even have to follow my blog.
Just leave me a comment stating that you want to be entered.

And stop back by next Thursday, to see which random winner will win
a copy of Pete Wilson's book Empty Promises!