Discover How to Create a Loving Life in a World of Broken Relationships

Randy V.: I loved this book. Paul Miller walks you through experiences to develop christian character using many of his own examples of trials.

United States on Jul 12, 2023

C M T: Very detailed but extremely easy to read; the sort of book you don't want to put down and end up going to bed too late. Takes you through the story of Ruth, which i thought I knew well but this book brings to attention all sorts of lovely details I had never noticed before. So encouraging how it relates to our daily life too. An exciting inspiring book full of heart

United Kingdom on Feb 03, 2022

Amazon Kunde: Wonderful book. Was sad when it was over. It really made me realize how little I love. I recommend this book to anyone like me, who is living in a difficult situation. It gave me hope that things could get better and change with hesed love.

Germany on Oct 24, 2020

Karen Winters: This book helped me see just how much I’ve bought in to the cultures idea that love is a feeling. It’s so much more! I love how the author weaves together a very Biblical view on love with the story of Ruth and Naomi. I love the illustration of the J curve where I choose to go down into death for the good of another and God raises me up to life. This is a book that I will read again and give away as a gift.

Canada on Aug 22, 2019

Michelle and Carlan Wendler: This may have just come at an especially helpful time in my life, but Paul Miller writes in an accessible and engaging way that somehow convicts and encourages at the same time. Following the story of Ruth, he weaves personal insights into a hard-hitting appraisal of how love requires more of us than we want to give (dying to self) and challenges me to live out of the Gospel in my relationship to my wife, family, ministry team, and neighbors. It is definitely worth the read.

United States on Nov 19, 2017

Paul & Kilby: This timely and much needed book addresses the most important issue ever to face a human: how to live in relationship with someone else. Refreshingly, Miller's wisdom is not directed at any one relationship, and can be applied wherever we find ourselves interacting with another person, even God. His writing drips with the gospel of grace and encourages, comforts, and uplifts people struggling to live in that grace and show it to one another.

It is an easy read––Miller has an effortless, conversational style that moves smoothly and quickly and doesn't leave you bored or confused at any point. He doesn't use Christian-ghetto jargon and avoids controversy or too-minute theology: his aim here is practical help for real life people, and he accomplishes it well. He uses the book of Ruth as his template, but although it is an excellent resource for the Bible reader, it is not a commentary or Bible study manual. It's more of a conversation about life than dissection of a literary text. But don't get me wrong, his exegesis is sound and he certainly gives very helpful insights into the history, context, meaning, and application of this interesting Old Testament book.

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United States on Jun 02, 2015

Allen Smith: In this follow-up book from A Praying Life, Miller’s A Loving Life is really a devotional commentary on the Book of Ruth. As I read through this book, I realized that the story of Ruth is about the heart-wrenching transition of Naomi & Ruth. This book drips with the gospel; Miller beautifully shows a cruciform life reflected in Naomi, Ruth, & Boaz. I was greatly helped by his definition of hesed love as a “one-way, stubborn love… that isn’t centered on fairness” but centered on death and ends in resurrection.

I began to read this book on my darkest day in 2014. Much of this book was read with tears; and I found a very healing read about God’s hesed love in the Gospel according to Ruth. To give you a taste of Miller’s mastery of gospel-centered living, consider his conceptual model he calls the “J-curve“. Christian Scholars say that a biblical worldview of history is linear instead of cyclical; but the line is not flat, says Miller; “it is actually shaped like a J, beginning with life and then going down into death and then upward to resurrection, a J-curve. Jesus lives a J-curve. He describes his life as a seed dying and rising again (John...

United States on Mar 30, 2015

Dorothy: Retelling the story of Ruth, Paul Miller challenges the reader to love sacrificially. The demands of love are hard work and walking this pathway is costly and exhausting. It is a life changing book that leads us to the Saviour and challenges our self centred, safe lives. Through the life of Ruth and Naomi we are pointed to the way that Jesus loved us and died for us. "Hesed "love can transform the way that we live and our relationships with others. This book was a blessing to me and I really recommend it.

United Kingdom on Feb 04, 2015

Mr P New: This is an excellent book that brings out the meaning of the book of Ruth in its ancient Hebrew context. At the same time, it shows great insight in exploring the relationships of the people involved, what true love means, and what it will be like for us to follow God's way, as Ruth did. I found it very helpful and saw things I'd never seen before in Ruth.

United Kingdom on Nov 22, 2014