Turnaround: The Orthodox Purpose Driven Life - A One Month Life Strategy for Spiritual Renewal

An excellent book! We have been using it at our church for "Bible" study. Very helpful and thought-provoking. An action oriented approach to creating a meaningful spiritual life!

Deeply spiritual. Includes Daily Bible verse, reflection, and prayer. Helped me address a lukewarm period. Bought copies for all my friends.

I absolutely love this book! As an orthodox priest, I cherish rich, practical, and applicable books when I find them. This isn't a sort of book that explains complicated theology or spirituality, nor does it even care to attempt that. The beauty of this book is its simplicity. It's short and sweet, and it can benefit just about anyone in their walk with God. It's basically a one-month, daily devotional. I actually love that it's one month because it's long enough to drill some solid points home and not so long that you get burnt out or discouraged. I find that a one-month goal is a good practical length, as opposed to the annual devotional books that may seem like they have no end in sight. Each “day” has about two pages that focus on a certain theme or topic. The structure basically contains a scriptural passage, a patristic passage, the author’s reflection on the theme/topic, and a few questions and prompts for your own thoughts and application, then a concluding prayer. Each day can take as little as ten minutes or more than an hour, depending on how much you meditate/journal. All in all, this is a wonderful resource to boost your spiritual life. I've even used it to motivate a youth group (basically like a one-month long challenge) and they all benefited from it.