God.com: Extreme Intimacy with an Interactive God

"GOD, GIVE ME A BROKEN HEART IF THAT IS WHERE YOUR HEALING CAN START."Either that statement didn't register, or I missed it the first time, but as I read the book for the second time, this request caught my attention, and events in my own life over the past year finally began to acquire some semblance of order. I, also, have lost my lover. In my case, a loving wife of 28 years, the victim of a vicious illness this past April, leaving me a lonely, wrenched, miserable mess; a life turned upside down, by that single, ever-present question...WHY? My heart is most surely broken, and this is without a doubt the perfect place for God's healing to begin.However, that is not the reason I was re-reading this book. I had originally been blessed by the concept that our Father in heaven wishes to communicate His absolute Love directly to and with us, and when I read a review of the book with which I took exception, I was immediately offended, and was re-reading the book with the intention of getting all the points straight in my mind so I could fire off a stinging rebuttal.Do you see where I am going with this? I took exception.... I was offended....I intended to take up the torch and defend the author.....I was going to have MY say in the matter. Yet, the passage that hit me like a 2X4 across the head, was a nugget that I really needed in my own personal life....the interaction that the author wants us to experience in our own lives, that our all powerful, all knowing, ever present Father, through His son Jesus Christ, desperately wants to show His limitless love to us, and communicate with us, if only we will turn from our own petty sense of self importance, and hear what He will say to us. I believe God used that passage in this book to speak directly to me in my time of need. I'm not implying that I believe God speaks through the author, but that He can and will use any means whatsoever that are appropriate to our situation. God can also affect our own interpretation of something in order to provide personal significance. Thank you, "Pat R." for your opinion, because through that, God used my own misguided intentions to provide a personal blessing to me. I pray that you, also may come to experience His Love & Peace that surpasses understanding.

I loved this because it is a sincere attempt at portraying an intimate relationship with GOD. James is honest and transparent in telling us about his constant contact with GOD. He reveals so much about himself and his life and his sins. He also talks about GOD's grace and how he has been forgiven and he today is a willing instrument for GOD's purpose. His journey of surrender is inspiring. I love that he makes it clear that we all have the ability to pray and to listen and hear GOD's will for us. He shows us how to be in relationship with GOD. He teaches us how to pray! This book is a Post-modern blessing!

First I want to address the gentleman's review from Boston. I,too, had never had God "speak" to me as James relates in God.com. But, on Dec. 8, l999, He spoke most clearly and supernaturally through His Word, and others to my mind and heart.In the months prior, I had been privileged to read a draft of God.com. I did not know the author at the time. As I read its pages, I was deeply touched at the transparency of the writer, his poetical phrasing, and more than that, the supernatural relationship he opened himself up to with our Heavenly Father. I wanted that, thinking it was only reserved for the "sacrifical Christian", the missionary, etc. I asked God for that relationship with Him for the first time in my 26 years as a believer. Little did I know He would answer so quickly, for on that Dec. 8, l999, my 27 year old son was diagnosed with brain cancer. God was there...in my face, His love overwhelmingly evident. He spoke to me in my mind and in my heart. He showed me who He was way before "what He was going to do." For six days He continued to unfold for me His supernatural life He wanted me to have from then on with Him.You see, Our Father, wants that for all His children, but we put Him in our box and see Him through our eyes. God.com challenges us to see, to believe, to hunger for that supernatural walk He so willingly wants to give us and anyone who seeks after Him. But, first we must let down the masks, lay our heart and soul bare before a Mighty God, before He can begin that supernatural work in us.Is God.com our Bible? No. But, it clearly calls us to live a more radical life, sold out to Him, through the Living Word of a Holy God!To the searcher, God.com makes a Holy God more real, more relational, without relinquishing who He is. He is just there calling you to a transformed life in Him; asking you to "believe" and He will take you from there with no looking back.I thank God daily for using James to write His words through James' life. It is ongoing for him. It is ongoing for us. Please join me and others as we walk with James and Our God through the pages of the supernatural walk He has planned for us. It is an absolute joy in spite of the circumstances!By the way, my son is fine...no secondary treatment, no cancer. And you know what----God also likes us to dance with Him. I'm learning that, too. The twirls and dips are amazing as He leads the way.Please buy God.com and encourage your friends to also. God will change your heart where only He can through it. God Bless.InI

Just read James Langteaux's excellent, excellent book, God.com. One of the best books I have ever read! It rocks! It's frank, honest, very witty, humorous, a bit irreverant and it speaks to the very generation we're ALL living in. (O.K. and I also got more than a little teary eyed reading it). God.com engages so well the disenfranchised, the disaffected, to those that maybe have grown up in a Christian home but never made the leap to their own faith. It also speaks to the millions who have grown up as products of divorce, who have longed to have a Father they could trust unflinchingly with their very lives. James Langteaux gets high marks for his very innovative style, prose, and layout of the book. He has done a bold thing with the release of God.com. I'm sure some won't get it and maybe others it will offend, but that's O.K. It's not intended for those who have arrived on their spiritual journey, or I should say who think they have arrived, but in reality have never left the station. James Langteaux has really broken some barriers with this call to a revolution to believe beyond what we can see; a call to extreme intimacy with a highly interactive God. It's clear from this book that God rocks James Langteaux and God.com will rock the world.

James Alexander Langteaux uses tech-based analogies along with scripture to describe how to connect with God and grow in a relationship with Him. Throughout the book he draws small portraits of himself by candidly sharing the struggles and pitfalls he faced on his spiritual journey. Infused with a steady flow of pop culture references, twisted metaphors and turns-of-phrase, God.com is a fiercely creative wake-up call for skeptics and believers to break down barriers which hinder an abundant life in God. I highly recommend this book. It's unlike any book I've read on Christian living and I look forward to more of his work.