Book Review: The Healing of Jabez

on September 11th, 2009

I’m in the middle of a few books – but wanted to finish up The Healing of Jabez by John Mauck before we started our Life’s Healing Choices (HSM is calling it HAPPY) church-wide series next week. The book, which will inevitably and maybe intentionally be compared to Bruce Wilkinson’s The Prayer of Jabez, focuses on the life of Jabez through his life of pain to healing. Either way, the book navigates what little we know of Jabez from Scripture and builds a process for dealing with life’s pain. Mauck specifically goes after pain caused by parents, pain we cause other people and the pain that comes from names. The book does get a bit bogged down as an entry-level title with all of the talk about translations and original Greek, but good stuff, especially for the hurting seeker. B-

JG


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Dirk at 5:00am September 14

Sounds like Mauck is trying to set the record straight on Jabez. Probably a good thing given the way Wilkinson seemingly took liberties with the text. Nice to have a book using Scripture to deal with the pain in our lives. Certainly plenty of pain to go around these days.