Enemies of the Heart

As I have read through this book there are positives and many negatives in this book.

The Good: I have found that Andy has a lot of good things to say about four very important topics, guilt, greed, anger, and jealousy. He had many good points on the effects of these forces in our lives as well as many good ways in which we can combat against these problems.

The Bad: I have also, however, been disappointed in the amount of Scripture used to back up his points. It seemed as though he only used scripture when it came up rather than showing his points which can be found in the application of scripture.

He goes on countless tangents removing the flow of his arguments. It seemed as if it took him a long time to get to making his points particularly in the beginning of the book making it hard to want to keep reading as it seemed he said the same or similar things for multiple chapters. He doesn't get around to defining the four emotions until chapter 6 and on.

The second half of the book was much better than the first half as he used more scripture and had good practical points but the dismally slow first half of the book as well as overall lack of supporting scripture discouraged me from giving this book a great review, as it is however, I think that there is better literature on this same subject than this book deals out.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.