And the Shofar Blew | 
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2004 winner of a Retailer's Choice award from Christian Retailing In the Old Testament, God called his people to action with the blast of the shofar, a ram's horn. God still calls his people today. In this relevant and timely contemporary novel, dynamic young preacher Paul Hudson is committed to building his church--but at what cost? As Paul's zeal and ambition build, he loses sight of the One who called him. As Paul and those around him struggle to discern what it truly means to live out their faith, they must ultimately choose between their own will or God's plan.
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Customer Reviews:
• Great Reading. Couldn't Put It Down 18 July, 2008
Francine Rivers really nailed it with this novel. Very timely and current with changes that are taking place in churches today. Well written
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• Wow! This Is A Must Read!!!! 17 August, 2008
This book was excellent! I couldn't stop reading! I wanted to get back into Eunice's world! The character development was wonderful! Very believeable! I cried when Abigail passed, and I loved the wisdom and respect from the elders. Buy it, read it, and give it to friend to enjoy as well!
Respectfully submitted,
Aimee
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• So Current To Out Lives Today. 02 June, 2008
I love Francine Rivers books. I first read the book then listened to it on audio.
has valuable lessons for us in todays world on being judgemental and becoming to caught up in worldly success and missing the more important things in life like those who love you.
A must read.
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• Wake-up Call In The Form Of A Novel 28 July, 2008
In the Old Testament, the prophets called people to repentance by blowing the shofar, or ram's horn, and calling for a sacred assembly. In Rivers's novel, the shofar is the horn on a semi truck that almost hits a man head-on, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
All Christians can fall into the ways of the world, and in this story, it's a pastor of a fast-growing church who falls into the ways of the world, blinded by ambition, and eventually he...well, I'll let you read the book and find out. The book was written in 2004, before the famous fall of Ted Haggard, yet in some ways reminds me of Haggard. In other ways, the pastor reminds me of the watered-down Christianity of Joel Osteen, although Osteen has not fallen as far as the Pastor Paul Hudson, the main character in the book.
Interestingly, a pastor named "David" has an adulterous affair, and a pastor named "Paul" has a Damascus Road experience, and a church elder named "Samuel" tries to warn him before his fall, and a faithful church member named "Steven" is hurt and in affect martyred because of the pastor's ambition. Francine Rivers knows how to use Biblical names with great symbolism in her novels. It reminds me of her use of Hosea in her novel, Redeeming Love.
This book is truly a wake-up call for pastors and church leaders. I'm glad I read it. I'm glad my wife, who had already read the book, said to me, "You're not like that jerk." But I'm still glad I read the book as a reminder of the pitfalls to avoid.
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• My Favorite Christian Story Writer. 31 July, 2008
I have loved & enjoyed almost every single book by Francine Rivers & have never been dissappointed with a single one. Our book club has studied a couple of her novellas and learned so much. I don't know of another author I love to read as much as Francine Rivers. I pass my books around and share them with anyone who wants to read good Christian novels because they're just too wonderful to sit on a book shelf.
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