The Book and its Topic

In Chasing Daylight, Erwin McManus looks at the story of how Jonathan (son of King Saul) and his armor-bearer took on the Philistines and changed the course of Israel’s history. When everyone else, including Saul, chose to be passive, these two heroes were brave enough to trust God and act on his instructions. God saw what they did, and He came through for them. He helped them because they decided to seize a divine moment.

That is exactly what this book will encourage you to do. Chasing Daylight encourages you to seize the power of every moment! Divine moments are opportunities. We should not take them lightly or let them slip past.

In Psalm 37:4 the Psalmist said “Delight yourselves in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Erwin uses this verse to illustrate that you will not necessarily get what you desire when you delight in God, but rather that God will give you new desires. He says “When we are passionate about God, we can trust our passions.”

Isn’t that awesome? Go back and read it again. We no longer have to sit back and be careful. We tend to always be worried that our heart’s desires are in contrast to God’s heart. When we were still sinners, it surely was. But now, as long as we are absolutely passionate about God and have an intimate relationship with Him, we can trust our passions and act on them.

In fact, that is exactly what God is waiting for...

In Philippians 4 Paul encourages us to think about and act on anything noble, anything good. This is what we should do. Unless we get a clear no from God, we have free reign. We can advance!

The Book and its Topic

The Dream Giver is all about those things most dear to us that we do not necessarily like to talk about – our dreams. This book aims to help you follow your God-given destiny.

The well-known author and Bible teacher, Bruce Wilkinson, shows us that our dreams are from God. God gives us dreams to have us depend on Him and walk out our lives in a deep love relationship with Him. Moses and countless other Biblical figures had such dreams and we read in the Bible about their lives spent in pursuit of these dreams.

The dream giver starts with a parable about Ordinary. Ordinary is a Nobody living in the Land of Familiar. The story then goes on about how Ordinary has a Big Dream and his journey to achieve it.

The second part of the book concentrates on your own dream journey.

Bruce takes you through a number of stages you will encounter in pursuing your Big Dream. It starts with realizing that you do have a Big Dream and if you lost it, it is just a matter of digging deep enough to find it again.