The Exceptional Life by Stephen Arterburn

I recieved this book from Baker Publishing Group.
My life is better for having read it.

Arterburn wrote an other book earlier this year which I reviewed for Thomas Nelson titled, Healing Is A Choice. It was a good book but this most recent one, The Exceptional Life, is a better book.

This book is shorter and therefore easier to commit to read. In this book, the author goes over 8 areas of life where we can all be blind sided and miss our walk with God.

He uses stories about people he has worked with in the past or he has some people write dialog about their experiences and he then incorporates their experiences as examples.

The last chapter was the best written and dealt with addiction. The author needs to write his next book starting out with addiction and in fact, write an entire book about addictions.

I believe he has a lot of experience in counseling but I dont know that I would say I agree him on all points.
His chapter on helplessness was also a very good section of the book.

I would have to give this one 5 stars, just because I feel like I am stronger for having read it. That is a pretty strong endorsement.