How to be Perfect by Daniel M. Harrell

My Thoughts:
I haven’t finished reading How to Be Perfect: One Church’s Audacious Experiment In Living the Old Testament Book of Leviticus. It gives to cause to pause, wonder, contemplate and reread. If you’ve ever had trouble reading Leviticus and wonder what in the heck all that boring gobbledygook is doing in the bible — or if you’ve just tried to read Leviticus and gone to sleep — you’ll want to read Daniel Harrell’s book.

How to Be Perfect will not put you to sleep. It is funny, it is thought provoking, it is convicting, but it isn’t boring. If you want to better understand the roots of our Christian traditions and you want an even clearer picture of just how radical Jesus’ teachings were in the context of the culture he lived in, you’ll want to read this book. You’ll find sample pages below.

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It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!

Today’s Wild Card author is:

Daniel M. Harrell

and the book:

How to be Perfect

FaithWords (January 5, 2011)

***Special thanks to Sarah Reck,Web Publicist, Hachette Book Group for sending me a review copy.***

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Daniel M. Harrell is senior minister of Colonial Church in Edina, Minnesota. For 23 years he served as a minister at Park Street Church in downtown Boston. He is the author of Nature’s Witness: How Evolution Can Inspire Faith as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Leadership Journal, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and Regeneration Quarterly. He holds a PhD in developmental psychology from Boston College and has lectured at Fuller Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Gordon College, and Boston University. He lives somewhat obediently by grace in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter.