To Be Told

God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future

De: Dan B. Allender PhD

Narrado por: William Sarris

God wants to reveal himself through your story. Discover how he has written your life so far and how he is leading you into the rest of your story.

Everyone wants clearer guidance from God on what to do with their future. In this insightful book, therapist and Professor Dan Allender shows you how to listen to the stories of your life and identify the themes that God has written there. As you begin to understand both the hope and the heartache, you will gain a clearer sense of the meaning that God has written into every detail of who you are. You'll also see how he invites you to join him in coauthoring the rest of your story. God is your author, and he is showing you how to follow him into the future.

©2005 Dr. Dan B. Allender (P)2020 Tantor

Why is telling our story important?

Stories are powerful, they’re also healing . This book is written for that very purpose, it explores why. This book left this reader with encouragement and motivated me to write my story.

Love the perspective of co-authoring my story with God

Actually I am more of a transcriber recording the story that God has for me. I am currently in a place in life where I thought I saw my story playing out but a month ago one chapter abruptly closed and now the current chapter is significantly differnt than where I thought it would be. I am leaning on God to allow him to guide me where I need to be and how it’s supposed ti play out because I’m having a a hard time understing what is happening and why. But trust in the master story teller

Wish Allender had narrated

Good book. But I definitely think you need the workbook to really get started on the ideas if you can’t go to a workshop. I also think Allender would have been a better narrator for this book. He speaks well and has his own podcast. The narrator had a very formal style that didn’t suit Allender writing style well.

How engaging our past story is the key to living our current story fully

The narrator was a little “too perfect” I prefer a narrator who has more feeling when reading the text as often is the case when the author is the narrator
The content is life changing!

Thought Provoking and Inspiring

I loved this book so much that I went ahead and purchased the paperback & workbook. I must say, I was challenged by it's thought provoking content and many times (as I was challenged by my own stories) wanted to run from it. I found myself crying one moment and laughing the next! Though I'm not ready to dive into the work book yet, I know it will be life altering when I do. Well done Mr. Allender, I will never look at my story or anyone else’s for that matter the same again!

The narrator at first sounded robotic and slightly bothered me but after the first chapter I adjusted to his tone and found his voice (along with the content) enjoyable and fatherly.

Highly recommended!!

“Your story is not your own” Dan Allender

I love how Allender touches on the subject of the orphan, the stranger and the widow. He invites you to explore what archetype you might be and then to start writing. I LOVE how he talks so much about knowing our story allows for you to move closer to God. I love his examples of his own story and pieces of others. Dan Allender is one of my favorite authors and has been a source of much healing in my own story!

God is not our controlling puppet master 😢

This book is not in line with Scripture at all! It confuses identity with life circumstances and removes free will with the picture of a controlling God. It does not give credit to the forces of evil for our struggles. This makes me so sad because I believe the process in the book could really help people. But misrepresenting God is a dealbreaker for me.