This review of Dug Down Deep is particularly meaningful because the young woman who wrote it has tracked my journey as a writer for many years. Gretchen was a subscriber to the magazine I published back in high school and a big encouragement when my first book was released. Now she's a wife and mother. On her website, Young Ladies Christian Fellowship, she wrote the following about the book...
I've always identified with Mark Twain's line, "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me--it is the parts that I do understand." It's been my excuse for staying away from theological debates, it's been the reason you'll find me more often in Psalms than in Revelations. But reading Dug Down Deep was a convicting reminder that I can't get so steeped in simple tradition that I forget the reason I am living thus.
Sometimes it is easier to act like a Christian than to be a follower of Christ. But in his new book Dug Down Deep: Unearthing What I Believe and Why It Matters, Joshua Harris sounds a compelling call to dig down deep into the truths of why we believe what we believe so we will know how to live....
The best thing about the book Dug Down Deep is that it continually points you to the Book of books. It is the sort of book to be read with a Bible in hand, the sort of book that will make you set it down and pick up the Bible instead.
That last paragraph just might be the biggest compliment I've heard for the book. And I hope it's true. I hope it points people to the Book of books.
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