{"id":1319,"date":"2018-03-14T19:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2018-03-14T19:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:38:57","slug":"book-review-god-of-tomorrow-by-caleb-kaltenbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REVIEW: God Of Tomorrow by Caleb Kaltenbach"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1320 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/51Eh7bemRL._SX336_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=247%2C364\" alt=\"51Eh+7bemRL._SX336_BO1,204,203,200_\" width=\"247\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/51Eh7bemRL._SX336_BO1204203200_.jpg?w=338&amp;ssl=1 338w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/51Eh7bemRL._SX336_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1 203w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/51Eh7bemRL._SX336_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=150%2C221&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/51Eh7bemRL._SX336_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=100%2C148&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/>In an era of unpresented division in America, both in the political arena and in the Evangelical Christian community, Caleb Kaltenbach\u2019s is the lucid voice of reason and compassion that we need.\u00a0 In his latest book, <em>God Of Tomorrow,<\/em> he brings more of that potent cocktail of truth and grace that made <em>Messy Grace<\/em> such an important book.\u00a0 Where<em> Messy Grace<\/em> addressed the Church\u2019s response to the LGBT community, <em>God Of Tomorrow<\/em> widens the scope to address the Church\u2019s response to the shifting culture in general.\u00a0 Encouraging Christians to put aside fear and anxiety, Kaltenbach recommends and then outlines a way of engagement with the culture.\n<p>What many Christians fear most is any engagement with the culture may be the same as an embracing of the culture, but the vision Kaltenbach puts forward is one in which Christians have a transformative and restorative relationship with the culture.\u00a0 Like Jesus, Peter, and Paul before us, we lead off with love and kindness.\u00a0 Kaltenbach\u2019s thesis is what he calls \u201cThe God Of Tomorrow Principle\u201d: \u201cSince tomorrow belongs to God, we can graciously offer hope to people today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, Kaltenbach presses all the hot buttons: LGBT issues, immigration, racism, terrorism.\u00a0 Through it all, what he emphasizes is understanding, kindness, grace, and hope.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t the pie-in-the-sky version of \u201clove your neighbor as yourself,\u201d this is the real deal\u2014the messy version.\u00a0 What I resonate most is the quiet confidence that Kaltenbach\u2019s writing exudes.\u00a0 His language is unadorned and humble, but filled with hope.\u00a0 His words call Christians to live in the same way.\u00a0 If God holds the future, then that gives us the confidence to love without fear.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important and timely book.\u00a0 I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Please Note: This book was gifted as a part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingforbooks.com\/\">Blogging for Books<\/a>\u00a0Reviewers Program in exchange for my unbiased review of this work. This has in no way influenced my opinion or review of this work.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era of unpresented division in America, both in the political arena and in the Evangelical Christian community, Caleb Kaltenbach\u2019s is the lucid voice of reason and compassion that we need.\u00a0 In his latest book, God Of Tomorrow, he brings more of that potent cocktail of truth and grace that made Messy Grace such&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=1319\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOOK REVIEW: God Of Tomorrow by Caleb Kaltenbach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,12],"tags":[15,32,50,71,75,84,215,111,150,157],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-for-books","category-books-2","category-reviews","tag-52-books","tag-books","tag-culture","tag-faith","tag-fear","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-reading","tag-reviews-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-lh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}