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| Author: Jim Palmer
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 282248
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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.6
Dewey Decimal Number: 277.30830922
ASIN: B0013L8BUG
Publication Date: October 17, 2006
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God is BIGGER than you think November 2, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
In a world of religious professionals and high powered churches that resemble more of corporate America than they do the peasant carpenter from Nazareth, Jim's book is a breath of fresh air. Divine Nobodies is for anyone who is tired of pat answers and jumping through religious hoops. This book will help you to find God through average, authentic, everyday people - Divine Nobodies. If you're searching for Jesus without the religious strings attached this book is for you.
There's got to be more to God than just going to church... October 30, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There's a lot that you can say about Jim's book; but in hopes that you'll read this review; I'll keep it short.
This book opened up parts of my heart that I'd closed off due to my past with churches and religion. It made me laugh, cry, and question areas of my life that were "off limits" before reading the book.
If you've felt in your gut, "There's got to be something more to God than just church and reading my bible..." then I'd highly recommend picking up this book! It opened my eyes and heart to a lot of new possibilites, regarding God, life, forgiveness... A good book from a good man.
A Rare Find... October 25, 2006
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
Finding a writer who is able to be both vulnerable and Christian is rare. Too often the language of "ought" overtakes the language of "is." Consequently many of the books in the evangelical world intended to provoke spiritual growth settle for passing out the lastest God-talk. And the hard art of letting God's love near our brokeness is never shared. Jim Palmer is a writer who's learned to embrace his imperfect humanity and a God who is comfortable to enter it.
"Divine Nobodies" chronicles how Jim got to that place. In what now feels like a past life, Jim had been a rising star in the world of evangelical leaders. At the time, Jim peddled Jesus-mottos, but never experienced the grace of God moving in among the hurts of his childhood. Jim's ascent into mega-church heights stalled when his marriage fell apart.
"Divine Nobodies" is the story of God rebuilding Jim's spirituality by placing a line of ordinary "Joe's" and "Janes" into his life. Each chapter of "Divine Nobodies" contains an essay about one of these "nobodies"-- a waitress, a mechanic, a wheel-chair bound girl and her father among them-- and how these individual made Jim reconsider what it means to be spiritual. God met Jim in the temple of Jim's damaged emotions, fears, anxieties shared his love.
Jim essay's are warm and gracious. He manages to describe those who hurt him the most with gentleness and honor. Jim seems to grasp how fragile we all are, so he applies self-depreciating humor and vulnerability to disarm his readers and to guide them toward a God who collects "nobodies."
Jim well crafted essays deserve comparisions with the likes of Donald Miller and Anne Lamott. However, Jim's voice is both unique and needed. Jim once perpetuated the subculture which seemed to nearly smother his own faith. "Divine Nobodies" chronicles Jims long walk out of religion and into God's life.
I suspect that "Divine Nobodies" will resonate with the silent majority of injured people who fill our church, people who want to connect with God, but who aren't sure how to introduce God to the dark corners of their hearts. Jim is a loving guide who shows us how.
 4 stars October 12, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Nobody really believes when you rank something five stars. You have something to gain like kickbacks from a publisher or are just overly kind and optimistic. (The reviews before this seem like great examples.)
That being said, I would rank it 5 stars.
I was suprised at how developed Jim's author voice is for his first book. The introduction is a bit shocking, as it is quite revealing. Once you crawl out of deep revelations of his humanity - a good story continues to unfold. Sometimes his story telling is an art form, like the careful introduction of scripture, and others it seems like he has pulled out a soap box. He cares his self-honesty through the book as well, where usually it is a push in the beginning or at the beginning of major topics, he sprinkles it throughout the book. I found moments where I bonded over moments and cried over touching scenes.
That being said - I do agree with Brian Maclaren's assessment. Except it was too jaded - I connect with Jim's writings more than Donald Miller's. Their style is different so it is probably a preferance issue, but it seems like Miller is speaking to the big "church" and allows you to pull it down to where you are and Palmer is speaking to the individual who has been lost in the shadows of the church. He "sheds" the system and does it well.
I shipped my sister a copy a few minutes ago. I look forward to his next book. So like I said 5 stars.
Christopher
Questions worth asking...one man's journey. October 7, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Divine Nobodies will touch the deepest most intimate parts of your being as Jim meanders through life discovering God within and through everyday folks...the divine nobodies of life. You'll cry, giggle, hmph, chuckle and ROFL. Shedding religion is messy business, albeit foundation shaking at times. Jim tells of encountering the round pegs, those questions and life situations that just don't fit into the neat and orderly square holes of religion:
What is church? What does it mean to be the church? If a loving parent wouldn't send their child to eternal hell, how could God? Why do bad things happen? What is our journey about as a child of God...is it about living the `perfect life' a striving for sinlessness? Just how far does God's grace go? Should believers do life with the "undesirables", homosexuals, adulterers, divorcees, alcoholics of the world or does being around "bad" apples spoil the whole bushel...just who are "undesirables" anyway? Is knowing about God the same as knowing God?
If you have an inkling there's something more to God than Sunday services and Wednesday night prayer meetings, pick up a copy of Divine Nobodies...Jim's story will fan that inkling into a knowing that will guide you to a deeper and more intimate relationship with God...and that `is' what life's about.
Read it...then give a copy to others.
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