Product Description

With inspiring stories and thought-provoking questions, Ravi Zacharias traces the multiple threads of our lives, describing how the unseen hand of God guides our joys, our tragedies, our daily humdrum to weave a pattern of divine providence and meaning.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10927 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

From the Back Cover
How differently would we live if we believed that every dimension of our lives—from the happy to the tragic to the mundane—were part of a beautiful and purposeful design in which no thread were wrongly woven? That’s what best-selling author and internationally-known apologist, Ravi Zacharias, explores in The Grand Weaver.

As Christians, we believe that great events such as a death or a birth are guided by the hand of God. Yet we drift into feeling that our daily lives are the product of our own efforts. This book brims with penetrating stories and insights that show us otherwise. From a chance encounter in a ticket line to a beloved father’s final word before dying, from a random phone call to a line in a Scripture reading, every detail of life is woven into its perfect place. In The Grand Weaver, Dr. Zacharias examines our backgrounds, our disappointments, our triumphs, and our beliefs, and explains how they are all part of the intentional and perfect work of the Grand Weaver.

Also available: unabridged audio CD.

About the Author
Dr. Ravi Zacharias is the founder and president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. He has spoken all over the world in great halls and universities, confronting spokespersons of other beliefs - and no beliefs - with impact and grace. The author of many books, he powerfully mixes biblical teaching and apologetics. His weekly radio program, "Let My People Think," is broadcast over 1,500 stations worldwide. He and his wife live in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ravi Zacharias es un conferencista de apologética muy popular y autor de varios libros. Su programa de radio Let My People Think se transmite por más de mil emisoras radiales en todo el mundo. Ha escrito varios libros, entre los que se podrían mencionar ¿Puede el hombre vivir sin Dios? Y Jesús entre otros dioses. Fue coeditor de IS Your Church Ready?, un libro asociado a ¿Quien creó a Díos?

Customer Reviews

He Is In Love With The Lord
Great! This man is truly in love with Jesus Christ and uses many life situations to show where God is working.

Intellectually Bankrupt
The introduction starts out telling the story of an Indian father/son weaving team creating beautiful saris out of thread, then uses this as evidence in a rather absurd leap:

"Now if an ordinary weaver can take a collection of colored threads and create a garment to beautify the face, is it not possible that the Grand Weaver has a design in mind for you, a design that will adorn you as he uses your life to fashion you for his purpose, using all the threads within his reach."

It's downhill from there. Lots of colorful analogies that hold no bearing on the conclusions he draws from them outside the visual metaphor he creates. But I'll be honest, I couldn't bring myself to finish it after getting half way through. Perhaps all the really great stuff is left for the end. I doubt it.

Know the genre...
I often read books by C.S. Lewis and A.W. Tozer, and Ravi Zacharias had written a rather succinct introduction to one of those author's books. I expected his book to therefore be similar. While it is a well written book, it is more inspirational in flavor than I typically prefer. If you are looking for a book similar to Max Lucado's style, with a little more theology and a little less story telling, this is probably a good fit for you.