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Title: Secret Message of Jesus
Subtitle: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything
Author: Brian McLaren
Narrator: Paul Michael
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-02-09
Publisher: christianaudio.com
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
In The Secret Message of Jesus, McLaren clears away the dust of 2,000 years of the Christian religion to get to the most important questions facing Christendom: Could it be that the church has misunderstood or, in some cases, intentionally distorted Jesus' core message? What if Jesus was right - but right in different ways than we ever realized? What if many of us have carried on a religion that somewhere along the way missed rich and radical treasures hidden in the essential message of Jesus of Nazareth?
McLaren calls on us to look hard, think deeply, and search long with him...even if the answers overturn our conventional ideas, priorities, and practices.
"Through the years, I have frequently had an uncomfortable feeling", writes McLaren, "that the portrait of Jesus I found in the New Testament didn't fit with the images of Jesus in the church." Out of that nagging discomfort arose this groundbreaking book. He writes: "I'd like to share my search with you, and invite you to be a part of it. I don't want to spoil the ending, but I'll let you in on this: the farther I go on this search, the more inspired, moved, challenged, shocked, and motivated I become about the secret message of Jesus."
Brian D. McLaren is an internationally known speaker, a member of the board of directors of Sojourners, and the author of 10 highly acclaimed books on contemporary Christianity, including A New Kind of Christian and A Generous Orthodoxy.
Critic Reviews:
"Pastor and best-selling author McLaren revisits the gospel material from a fresh - and at times radical - perspective... He does an excellent job of capturing Jesus' quiet, revolutionary style." (
Publishers Weekly)