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Lauren says:
I read Blue like Jazz my senior year in highschool which was about 4 years ago now. I was taking a leadership class and we were all reading it together. It opened my eyes in so many ways, and I had so many realizations about my own life. Recently this past semester I gave it to my boyfriend Jordan, and He just finished it on his plane ride to visit his family in Seattle.
Oh and P.S. I can't wait for his new book to be released. "Let Story Guide You" this year or Early 2008!
posted Jun 23
David Miller says:
So I'm told that Blue like Jazz is going to be a movie. Do we know if this is true? Stoked if it is...
posted Jun 22
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JØRDAN says:
Hey, I was just surfing around the internet and found Donald's FLICKR page. It shows two photos he took sitting around with two other guys working on a screen play for Blue Like Jazz.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donaldmiller/
posted Jun 28
David Miller says:
very nice! You were right...I am very excited.
I hope the message of the book rings out in the movie.
posted Jun 28
JØRDAN says:
Yeah, I think it's pretty incredible. I want more info! Is this going to be a major motion picture? An indie film? Is anything confirmed?
posted Jun 28
JØRDAN says:
From Donald Miller, regarding the screenwriting:http://donmillerfans.net/2007/06/13/blue-like-jazz-the-movie/
posted Jun 28
JØRDAN says:
Today I am flying home to Seattle from Tennessee. I plan to re-read Blue Like Jazz during my 7 hour flight.
posted Jun 22
Sara says:
i've read 'blue like jazz'
and the book completely changed my thoughts on christianity.
i don't think i really began to understand what God's love was or even how to
show it to other people, untill i read Don Miller.
I think the part that struck me the most was how he focused on
living out your love for other people (and in doing so, living out your love for God)
as opposed to the oh-so-popular pushing our beliefs on other people.
I guess i realized it's not our job to see how many people we can get on our side.
but it's about loving other people and bringing into the world a clearer idea of who Christ is through our example.
posted Jun 13
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JØRDAN says:
Yeah, I agree. I think the whole reason to be "Christ-like" is just to simply love people the way Jesus did.
posted Jun 14
brandon says:
Donald Miller helped usher in a change in my life...
Seriously...
He challenged me to rethink my faith...
I truly want to be a Christ-follower, not a "Christian," which just stirs up the bad taste that so many have in their mouth for people that call themselves such...
posted May 31
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JØRDAN says:
Sometimes I hate to align myself with some people who call themselves Christians. Whether it be very very liberal in their thinking or very legalistic. Some "Christians" don't get it. I realize the greatest thing is to love. Love Christ. Love your neighbor. Love the rich. Love the poor.
"And the greatest of these is love."
posted May 31
Timmay! says:
Some of my favorite ideas in "Searching for God Knows What", revolve around the theory that the Bible is some sort of self help book that should be followed as a series of steps towards happiness, holiness etc. I really love how Donald Miller urges people to read the Bible as stories about men and women like us. Who had struggles and sins, but where able to be used by God to accomplish his divine purpose. It is reassuring to say the least. Paul was a Pharisee, a self-appointed Holyman who persecuted Christians, but he was changed by the love and life of Jesus Christ. I sometimes feel that the church as a whole is some sort of self-appointed holy organization bordering on pharisitical practices and needs to realize the basic human aspect of faith. Which, to me is. That faith is hard. It is demanding. It calls us to be bigger than ourselves through the power of Jesus who was bigger than this world. It is not just a sunday morning and a quick God "fix". People playing church culture. It is in the line at Walgreens when some lady has decided to do ALL of her grocery shopping there and I'm late for work. It is a 24/7 internal attitude adjustment, based on the concept that we are bigger than our sinful human nature, because Jesus has given us the power to be. It is finding a precedence of hope and perseverence through the stories of Jesus and his followers, and realizing the human aspect of their struggles. Not just the steps that led them there. I guess I really appreciate the persepective that Donald Miller presents. He says that reading the Bible like a set of steps robs us of intimacy with God. Seems logical, a love relationship is not based on the steps and motions needed to maintain the realtionship. Rather, the steps and motions of that realationship are based on a deep passionate feeling which is indescribable outside of the feeling of love.
posted May 30
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JØRDAN says:
Along with the whole "self help" thing...
I liked when he talked about how to read the Bible. He described how he looks at it as a bunch of poetic writings of people who were distressed, in jail, beaten, stoned, etc. These people weren't perfect who wrote the Bible, but they were honest in the true sense of the word. They wrote heart felt letters to churches who were struggling with things.
I think if people read the bible as a literary book almost like poetry, rather than trying to find some sort of "meaning of life in the cosmos" then we might be better off and truly start to understand who God really is.
posted May 30
Courtney says:
I have read, Blue Like Jazz, Searching for God Knows What, before it was Through Painted Deserts, it was something like Prayer and the Art of Volkswagon Maintenance. Those are the three I have under my belt.
posted May 28
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JØRDAN says:
Me too. I think that Through Painted Deserts was very entertaining. I laughed a lot at some of his stories.
posted May 29
JØRDAN says:
What books has everyone read here? I would like to talk about topics but I feel we should all have a consensus of who's read what...
Cheers.
posted May 28
JØRDAN says:
I guess since I have created the group, I will be the first to post. Donald Miller, in my opinion, is an incredible author who places personal life experiences in his books to convey a very realistic approach to faith. After reading his works, I have personally taken a second look at faith and spiritually with God and have developed new insight to how, in today's society, Christians can approach faith in a realistic way. He points out different parts of the bible that lead me to believe that all Jesus wanted us to do was live and love.
posted May 28
JØRDAN says:
For those who have read Through Painted Deserts...
Here is a photo of Paul:http://www.flickr.com/photos/donaldmiller/605061300/in/set-72157600457568000/
posted Jun 28
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David Miller says:
its nice to put a face with the name
posted Jul 8