Closer Than Your Skin: Unwrapping the Mystery of Intimacy with God

by Susan D. Hill

Book Overview

If you crave the real experience of God's presence in your daily life... If you sense there's more to Christianity than service, study, and superficial spirituality... If you're ready to go beyond... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400073820
• ISBN13: 9781400073825
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

transforming

My sister went to a book party with Susan D. Hill and sent me the book. Oh how I wish I had picked it up immediately. Hill is witty and smart, and God and Jesus seem so much more real to my everyday life. I have never enjoyed a book so much that has also made such a difference in me. Fabulous work...please write more!!

Practical approach to intimacy with God

This is an absolutely phenomenal book. If you have ever wondered things like "does God really care?" or "Can you really hear me?" or "How do I know you are there?" read this book! Written in a conversational manner, Susan lays out a road map to paying attention to the little details of life that show that God does care, does hear and is here. In a truly practical fashion, this book cleans out your spiritual ears and allows you to relax and receive the presence of God in your life. From overcoming the obstacles of achieving that intimacy to watching for details, Closer Than Your Skin helps you find a new level in God that you probably never thought possible in this lifetime. In the 30 days since I finished the book, I'm 100% more aware and on fire once again!

Change your view of God ... for the better!

This book is a real life-changer! I got it last week and could barely put it down. For all the people out there who see God as distant, never satisfied with what we do, judgmental, please read this eye-opening book. Susan Hill tells stories and gives coincidences from her life ("Is it odd or is it God?" her husband says to explain the way God works) that reveal how God is just yearning for a relationship with me and with you! I have started to ask what God is going to do through me today, and to tentatively try to address him as "Abba" ("Daddy") in the intimate way that the Bible says He would like to be called. You will laugh, you will cry, you will yearn for that close relationship to a loving Father that Susan convinces us is possible. Enjoy this book -- it's a real delight and I bet it will turn out to be a classic.

A roadmap for a closer relationship with God

Susan D. Hill asks some of the same questions I've struggled with. Does God really care about me as a person? How can I grow closer to Him? Is it possible to really have a one on one relationship with Almighty God? Closer Than Your Skin answers those questions and more. It's filled with stories about people who found God in the most unlikely places. Sometimes our churches seem like social centers, revolving around programs, methods, and organizations. We're so busy we forget the simplicity of a relationship with Jesus. Susan D. Hill stresses the importance of making time for God, for waiting for him to lead us, instead of running ahead, and she shows us how to just enjoy being with him. An excellent book that speaks to the heart.

Beautifully written story about one woman's path to God

Closer Than Your Skin by Susan D. Hill is a hard book to define in just a few words. It's not quite a devotional, but through it I see her devotion to God. It's not quite a biography, but I've learned so much about Hill, I see her as a friend. It's a book written with haunting lyricism about the God moments in Hill's life, and her gentle encouragement to seek your own. She tells her story with brutal honesty about her husband's adultery and alcoholism, as well as her own frequent separations from God. Stories like these abound in Christian bookstores, but Hill writes with such earnestness and heart it's impossible not to feel for her and want your own God moment as well. She describes it a bit like a sneeze: you know it's coming, you can feel it, and there's nothing you can do to stop it, it's out of your control. This is a book you'll read again and again as you travel down your own road to get closer to the Lord.