Christ Alive: Reflections from the Shadows of Life into the Light of God
Ebook
Overview
Christ Alive is a book of fifty-two lessons for every week of the year that takes the reader on a clever, humorous, roller-coaster voyage of discovery, where Christ is consistently found in places where we might least expect or want. From Vladimir Putin to prisons, from psychopaths to the homeless, with a little visit to our mums, dads, and the seven deadly sins along the way, the breadth of the author’s professional experience is unrivalled. Accessing our human status-anxiety, the “nothing” people, criminal behaviors, and much, much more, there is a lesson included for every week of the year, life lessons sure to have readers gripped with God at their center. The author unashamedly confronts our modern-day struggles and judgment of each other, faith, and God and tackles these topics from his spiritual, academic, and practical experience. Some of the topics are light, others are dark, but all have one core conclusion at their heart. Like The Beatles, the author too concludes that love is all we need. Then again, as he says, Christ has been saying this all along. It’s just that perhaps we haven’t been listening.
John brings to bear on this series of weekly meditations the broad range of his experience and acumen. As a criminal law lecturer and preacher, he can draw out a wide range of insights and tell a story where we see the overlap of biography and parable. His motivation is not to amuse but to bring to bear on the darker areas of life the light of God. I thoroughly recommend this book.
——Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Glendalough and Primate of Ireland
In its turn moving and amusing, this book is suffused with hope and cheerfulness as well as an irrepressible sense of humor. Through his insightful interpretations of recent events and deft use of examples, John Deane-O’Keefe shows the reader how the belief in the risen Christ has lost little of its inspirational power.
——Timothy Mooney, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin
- Title: Christ Alive: Reflections from the Shadows of Life into the Light of God
- Author: John Deane-O'Keeffe
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 174
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798385236626, 9798385236602, 9798385236619
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385236626
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-25T15:05:00Z