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The Power of Weakness Kindle Edition

by Keith Giles (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In his second letter to the church in Corinth, the Apostle Paul described an encounter with God that taught him a valuable lesson about humility and perspective.

The author, Keith Giles, explores this Kingdom principal of weakness in the lives of people like Moses, Gideon, Samson, Solomon and even Jesus to help us understand how we can unleash the “power of Christ” in our own lives.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00767W91S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Digital Services (February 5, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 5, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 148 KB
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Keith Giles

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Keith Giles is a former pastor who left the pulpit to follow Jesus and start a house church where no one takes a salary and 100 percent of all offerings are given to help the poor in the community. He has been a published writer since 1989.

He is the author of several books, including: "Jesus Unbound: Liberating the Word of God from the Bible" and "Jesus Untangled: Crucifying Our Politics To Pledge Allegiance To The Lamb."

Keith is the co-host of the Heretic Happy Hour Podcast which has featured interviews with Bart Ehrman, John Fugelsang, Richard Rohr, Brad Jersak, Greg Boyd, and many others.

Keith also teaches several online courses including "Square 1: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction" and other courses based on his many books.

You can follow him online and find out more about his books at http://www.KeithGiles.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Recognize your weakness as a qualification in God's kingdom
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019
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I felt relief after reading this book. Like so many others, I've spent a lot of time trying to overcome or supress my weakness and it always resurfaces. At different times I have attempted to surrender it to God and immediately I felt freedom, but before long the worldly current would cause me to second guess my decision and I would convince myself that I needed to "conquer" that weakness and "take authority" over it. Before long I would be exhausted and feeling constrained once again. I am praying that this time with the help of the Holy Spirit, I can give it over to God for good. I want to be free, but more importantly, I want to see God glorified and exalted through my life.
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Arthur Sido
4.0 out of 5 stars A desperately needed reminder for a church that has lost her way
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2012
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The Power of Weakness is the latest offering from Keith Giles and it was both a pleasure and encouragement to read. In a church culture that sees sickness and poverty and weakness as something to be avoided and prayed about, Keith takes us back to the Bible to demonstrate that God has always used people when they were at their worst or those who were least "qualified".

The bulk of The Power of Weakness is an examination of the lives of a number of well-known figures from the Bible, men like Moses and Solomon and even Jesus Christ Himself, to show the glory of God in achieving great things through the weakness of man. After looking at the compelling evidence from the Bible, Keith turns to a more practical application, each and every individual Christian. If God can and has done great things through the weakness of men like Gideon and Paul, certainly He can and does through weak vessels like you and I. In a church culture that glorifies and exalts the most educated, smoothest speaking and best credentialed men, Keith reminds us that it is rarely the obvious (in our eyes) vessels that God works through.

As Keith points out, there is a reason that God glories in using the weakness of man to accomplish His great works, namely that it leaves no doubt in the mind of those who witness or read about these events as to where the honor and glory belong. It is not because of human talent or skill or intelligence but God alone who accomplishes His tasks. Along with the biographical examples, Keith points us again and again to Scripture to demonstrate his central thesis of God glorying in weakness. This message is not an unusual one in the church but it is one of the many cases where our rhetoric doesn't match our practice. You might hear an awful lot about "not many wise" in the church but look at the guys called to lead and more often than not it is the man who is the best sermonizer or the most educated or the most successful in the community rather than the weak.

I would certainly recommend The Power of Weakness to anyone who is struggling with feeling adequate to serve God or those who are looking at taking the next step in ministry. It is a critical reminder that God doesn't pick the best and brightest to do His work, He often picks just the opposite!
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Jon
5.0 out of 5 stars Power of Weakness
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2012
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I downloaded The Power Of Weakness by Keith Giles after listening to an interview with him on podcast at Revelations Radio Network. Keith is a breath of fresh air in the church today, applying the teachings of the Jesus and his apostles from the beginnings of the church. He runs a house based church, not taking a wage or trying to build an super ministry with all the hype and money gathering that is choking the life out of ordinary christians today. I would recommend the Power of Weakness to every christian and non believer, it would be a huge wake up call to the 'televangelists' and other snake oil salesman out there today, possibly bringing them to their knees if they were to truly read this book and apply its principles.

Keith's main point in this wonderful little book is that we need to get away from our strengths and abilities and surrender to Christ so He can bring His strengths and abilities to our life.

Thankyou Keith for your humble and heart opening tome.
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K. Miles
5.0 out of 5 stars get ready for a paradigm shift.
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2013
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That's what I tell myself whenever a friend of mine recommends a book. and my friend was right. This is the second book I have read that was authored by Keith Giles. Rather, the second one I've read and loved. He gets to the heart of the matter, defines it clearly and does it without raising my defenses. It's kind of like when Jesus was talking to the woman at the well. He told her the truth about herself but instead of feeling wounded she felt freed. I recommend this to my Christian friends who are looking for a closer walk.
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Cosmonaut
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, glad that I read it.
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2014
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Good book, easy to read but profoundly challenging. I will check out his other books & interviews. One two three
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Ian Acheson
4.0 out of 5 stars Important message delivered well
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2013
I received this 100 page ebook as part of a giveaway as a result of buying Frank Viola's new book. Gee, I hope the other gifts I downloaded are as good as this one.

Pastor Giles takes us through the stories of key Biblical figures: Jesus, Solomon, Moses, Samson, David, Gideon to name a few. He demonstrates using Scripture how they only "succeeded" by emptying themselves to fully surrender their lives to God. Samson, for example, was only powerful because the Holy Spirit equipped him with incredible strength.

This book comes at an important time for the church where I believe we may have forgotten this critical aspect of faith. God can only use us when we let Him by depending on Him. All of these Biblical people were weak so they depended on the Father to provide the power.

Well written with strong Biblical references. My only suggestion for improvement would be if we saw some modern day examples of this phenomenon. I get the concept and want to do it, but I'm still not quite sure how to. What do I need to do when I wake up each day to be "weak" and therefore depend on Jesus?

Highly recommended.
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Perry Belleau
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book. It helped me to know more what Jesus and his apostles taught than today churches teach. Thank God for using Keith to wrote it.
Reviewed in Canada on November 2, 2020
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I have his books.
I myself was former independent baptist and also divorced.
I am still glad I understand clear about God's Grace.
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