Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #310021 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 261 pages

About the Author
Gordon MacDonald has been a pastor and author for more than forty years. Presently he serves as editor-at-large for Leadership Journal and as chairman of World Relief. His most recent books include The Life God Blesses, Renewing Your Spiritual Passion, Ordering Your Private World, and When Men Think Private Thoughts. MacDonald can often be found hiking the mountains of New England or Switzerland with his wife, Gail, or their five grandchildren.

Customer Reviews

More of us men should read this!
At a time when so much Christian 'self-help' literature is so alarmingly unhelpful - it neglects to explain fully just what it is that drives people to do what they do in the first place, and rashly calls things 'sin' without identifying specifics - Gordon MacDonald's perceptive, exploratory, and above all honest approach is a breath of fresh air.

'When Men Think Private Thoughts' is clearly the product of extensive research and soul-searching on the author's part. Exploring the innermost thoughts and motivations that drive us blokes, and identifying common stumbling-blocks, he includes himself in what he says, such that it would be difficult to find him patronising or condescending at any stage. And that is what helps make this book such an engaging read. This is not the work of someone who claims to sit on the high-ground; rather, this is someone who experiences, and has experienced, the same issues that beset us, and who aims to debunk them in turn.

MacDonald voices in the introduction his suspicion, fear even, that more women than men will read the book, due to our general reluctance to explore the things of the mind. Hopefully, though, this will not turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, because, talking now from a personal perspective, I have finished this book understanding much more why I am like I am - and with any luck that has a bearing on how I relate to others. Very highly recommended.

Excellent, very readable and easy to digest and understand!
This book made me think and consider many important issues which have been at the back of my mind as well as some that have been key and at the forefront but which I have neglected to think about seriously until stimulated by the topics discussed therein.

I strongly recommend this book, particularly to all Christian men whom have passion about their faith and a strong desire to look at the organising of their inner self, to assess their own values and the meaning of what God intended should constitute a man!