Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire | 
 enlarge | Author: Jim Cymbala
Creator: Dean Merrill
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0310211999
Dewey Decimal Number: 270
EAN: 9780310211990
ASIN: 0310211999
Publication Date: April 18, 1997
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Amazon.com Review
As though blowing oxygen upon the dying embers of a fire, pastor Jim Cymbala revived a broken-down church in a rough-shod inner-city neighborhood through Christian faith. Twenty-five years ago, the Brooklyn Tabernacle could barely draw 26 people to a Sunday service. Nowadays the congregation is 6,000 strong--filled with converted prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, and homeless people, as well as yuppies and wholesome families. Although he's quick to give God credit for this miraculous success story, Cymbala admits that there may be a few human decisions that led to this Christian triumph. Most significantly, he made sure his church community embraced everyone, from all walks of life--no matter how distasteful or foreign. "Christians often hesitate to reach out to those who are different," according to Cymbala. "They want God to clean the fish before they catch them. If someone's gold ring is attached to an unusual body part, if the person doesn't smell the best or the skin color is not the same, Christians tend to hesitate." Thus, Cymbala encouraged his congregation to adopt the very same tolerant and accepting attitude as their God does. The results? Let's just say a church thrives in Brooklyn. Accomplished cowriter Dean Merrill helps this tender true story stay satisfying and highly readable. --Gail Hudson
Product Description
The times are urgent, God is on the move, now is the moment to . . . ask God to ignite his fire in your soul! Pastor Jim Cymbala believes that Jesus wants to renew his people -- to call us back from spiritual dead ends, apathy, and lukewarm religion. Cymbala knows the difference firsthand. Twenty-five years ago, his own church, the 6,000-strong Brooklyn Tabernacle, was a struggling congregation of twenty. Then they began to pray . . . and God began to move . . . and street-hardened lives by the hundreds were changed by the love of Christ. The story of what happened to this broken-drown church in one of America's meanest neighborhoods points the way to new spiritual vitality in the church and in your own life. Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire shows what the Holy Spirit can do when believers get serious about prayer and the Gospel. As this compelling tape reveals, God moves in life-changing ways when we set aside our own agendas, take him at his word, and listen for his voice.
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This book will change your life! November 16, 2008
Fresh Wind Fresh Fire reminds you of all that is really important. It will take you back to why you loved God in the first place and reignite your relationship with him.
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
 Spiritual Thought Provoker August 17, 2008
This is the story of a church and a man who fulfill the purpose of showing God to a weary world. The emphasis on prayer is what is needed in a day when so many worship the minister or the program. If we prayed more, we would worship God more and would know how to present him to a needy world.
OUTSTANDING June 23, 2008
I was given this book to read by a friend at my church, and I reluctantly took it because I am not a huge reader. After the first chapter, I was hooked and couldn't put it down! There is a lot of good instruction, and the part I like most is Jim Cymbala backs up the instruction with real-life experiences and results. Granted, not all results will be similar to his, but he shows the foundation on which to build your life. I highly recommend this book (I bought one for my father, brother, and father-in-law).
Where the real thing is. May 2, 2008
You can't not believe this man. It is not the most impressive thing that he built up a huge Church starting with about 10 people in a dangerous area of New York.
It is not the most impressive thing that his wife, who has no training in music, helped to write, guide and direct, songs for one of the world's most loved groups, i.e. The Brooklyn Tablernacle Choir. What is a most impressive to me is that they have stayed right where they started about 25 years ago, continuing to be instrumental in thousands of changed lives of former drug addicts and pushers, prostitutes and pimps, gangs and gangsters, gays and lesbians in what is - except by the grace of the Holy Spirit - still in a dangerous area and with quite a few potentially very dangerous parishioners. People feel embraced by YHWH's welcoming Love in Cymbala's Church. And I believe it is His Love that protects them and moves them all.
With that background I knew I wanted to hear what this man has to say.
I wasn't disappointed. The message is simple as he would say himself:
Prayer, and lots of it, first. Everything else later.
Someone said, "Prayer is not preparation for the work. Prayer IS the work." Cymbala agrees.
Inspiring January 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the more inspiring books I've ever read. It makes you want to meet with Christ and see the power of what He can do. Read if you want to be humbled and empowered.
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