Deliver Us from Me-Ville

by David A. Zimmerman

Book Overview

Welcome to Me-Ville, where you're surrounded by a culture that celebrates and elevates the individual. The You Utopia where your home, place of work, and even your place of worship, is customized to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1434700097
• ISBN13: 9781434700094
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: David C Cook
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A Winsome, Piercing and Relevant Read

Zimmerman fiercely and humorously explores how he gets hoodwinked by his own ego and by the palace lies of our day. His story quickly invites us to reflect on our own. He teams his candor with reflections from ancient sages and modern day muses. One of my favorite aspects of the book is that he includes practical "escape routes" -- questions and actions we can engage to be liberated from our own Me-Ville. Great read.

Great advice offered by "Me-Ville"

From the first paragraph of the first chapter to the last, this book is a humorously insightful read. Sprinkled with well-distributed quotes, references and an abundance of real-life experience, "Deliver Us From Me-Ville" takes a real look at the trappings of self-centeredness and the various "escape routes" not only leading to other-centeredness but to the ultimately valuable and important goal of a truly Christ-centered life. Individuals in American society will easily relate to the ease with which we get caught up in our own personal supposed utopia, our "Me-Ville". Zimmerman, however, offers solutions to change our lives in order to better ourselves and others; to live in a way more pleasing to the Lord--the way He intends for us to live.

Freedom from Me-dom

Zimmerman has written a superb book that somehow successful blends clever wit with deep introspection-- not an easy feat. David summons Bonhoeffer,Merton, and his own adventures in narcissism to describe our inability to save ourselves from self-centeredness. Deliver Us From Me-Ville is a smooth read. Don't mistake that last sentence as code for saying that the book is fluff. There are passages in the book that command repeat readings.

This book is an insightful self-effacing needle that bursts our and his balloon, so it can be inflat

This book is well worth the read. Zimmerman deftly uses pointed humor to burst, his and our own "Spiritual Ego's". This leaves the reader with one primary task.....look in-ward and up-ward. By doing so you will grow or at the very least be aware of your/my own pride. I tend to buy several and pass them along.