Stop Taking Sides

This book is a nice little read.  It takes some difficult, often complex, issues and makes them very easy to understand and apply them to your Christian life.  Mabry’s style is absorbing and easy to read, with plenty of useful anecdotes and advice on how to apply what he discusses to your day to day gospel living.    

It covers a broad range of topics and brings to light many things you may have struggled with on your Christian journey.  Equally suitable to new Christians looking for comprehensive answers to some seemingly conflicting biblical texts as it is to more mature Christians who may have not yet fully considered the issues Mabry discusses.  

If you want advice on how to manage the tension, as Mabry calls it, between your faith and your political persuasions, between God’s plans and your responsibility for your choices or actions, between (gospel) victory and personal suffering or between having a strong personality and being a weak person (plus many more ‘tensions’) you need to read this book.  Find out why understanding how managing these ‘tensions’ leads to less anxiety in your Christian life.  Why you need to have, amongst other things highlighted, a steadfast faith, meekness, humility, kindness and love.  

I personally will look at Psalm 23 and the Beatitudes (especially the word ‘meek’) in very different ways after reading this.  I better understand why I walk through the valley of death and why I need to be more meek in future gospel conversations. 

Brian Sinclair