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love it as much as the original Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, but it was still good, He gently pokes fun at the state of the modern Christianity, which made me laugh out loud at times, but some of it made me sad as well.
I decided that with or without rereading "The Horizontal Epistles of Andromeda Veal" and "The Theatrical Tapes of Leonard Thynn", I was going to finish rereading this Sacred Diary! Once opened, it just couldn't be put down!

I laughed, I cried!

Adrian Plass just has a unique way of showing how funny and wrong the Church and Christians can be, but how God loves us all anyway! A little more thoughtprovoking than the earlier 'diary' by the same author, but there are still some very funny moments.
The second time I read it, in, was less than two years after the first time, so it wasn't quite so hilarious, but still well worth reading.
It ties up a lot of loose ends from the earlier Plass books,

Added after third reading in:

The first three books were to coin an overused cliché a breath of fresh air when they first appeared, in the earlys.
Plass spoke honestly into a generation of young people who had grown up in evangelical circles, but were starting to ask open and sometimes difficult questions which the leaders were reluctant to answer.
Modernism was giving way to postmodernism in the West, but the church in general was failing to keep up, Plass encouraged us to laugh at ourselves, and to poke gentle fun at some of the foibles of the church from within, while at the same time focussing more closely on the God who loves us despite everything.


I had been concerned that this sequel, published in, would prove a disappointment, but was delighted to be proved wrong.
I smiled in many places, and chuckled few times, and found myself thinking about the contents at odd times long after I had finished.


Rereadingyears later, I enjoyed it afresh, and yes, despite knowing most of the punchlines and the general outcome of the stories, I still found myself laughing out loud more than once.


Highly recommended, although it makes the most sense to read this after, at least, the first Sacred Diary book.



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Inte lika bra som den första men fortfarande rolig! Slutet var mycket berörande! The fourth book in the Sacred Diaries series, which came out indid you know there's one as recent as.
I was a teenager when Plassmania swept the Christian world in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and Germany apparently.
I even went to see him live at Greenlane Christian Centre alongside as many other people as could fit in that venue.


His dry humour and the things he could apparently get away with saying about Christianity made him a bit of a hero to a thoroughly churchified teenager.


Anyway, I picked up this hardcover book at the Lions Club book fair recently for something like, . . and now I'm hooked again and hunting down his other books,

The thing about it is that yes it's funny sometimes very very funny but what I hadn't appreciated previously was the incisive critique, and the serious bits that address real issues.
Plass follows the old trick of laugh, laugh, laugh, truth bomb, laugh, laugh,Very funny. Adrian Plass exposes the inconsistencies that haunt even sincere Christians, Ook fantastisch. I loved this book. Adrian has a gift to tell it how it is, and tell it how it should be, No one makes me laugh and cry and feel like everything will be ok like Adrian Plass, Highly recommend for anyone who struggles with faith, who sees the faults in the church, or who needs a good laugh and some solid encouragement.
Was honestly afraid this book wouldn't hold up against the original but is at least as good as the first Diaries.
Love this book just as much as the first Diary, Makes me laugh out loud a lot! A delightful mix of offthewall British humour and sharp reality, interspersed with inspiration to touch the heart.
. . and the funny bone. As one of the characters states, Adrian downplays his strengths and lays out his weaknesses to help others my own wording.


One of my favourite passages:
When Adrian desires a support group for his speaking ministry, his wife says of him: "You get very cross, indeed, when anyone says anything remotely critical.
" When Adrian denies this, his son writes him a short bit of verse: "Freely I confess my sins, For God has poured His love in But when another lists my faults, I want to smash his face in.
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The kind of humour and pickmeup honesty that is refreshing,
I can't remember how many times I've read these books, but Plass still makes me laugh just as hard as ever.
And to have grown up in the church as a

twentysomething I think I also need the books now MORE than ever.


We meet the characters from the first book: sarcastic son Gerald, bewildred and wonderful wife Anne, unbelievably crazy friend Leonard, very religious Doreen Cook
and of course the lost, bloited, egotistic, bighearted, tryingtodorightbutfailingontheway Christian speaker that is: Adrian Plass.


I could fill this review with a tremendous amount of spoilers of the funny, but I'm not, I'm gonna leave the reading and laughing to you my friend, However, I will tell you this: This is not just a laugh fest, This sequel contains a bit more long passages where depth in characters and life are explored in more profound ways than before.
Also that a precursor of what's to come in the Plass world, The book is what I go to when I feel the church is not acting the way i think it should, or when people are stupid, or when I feel insecure about everything I believe in.
This little book contains so much heart through humour, it's amazing,

Don't believe me Believe this: I have three copies of this book, One English, two Swedish. Why, you ask I'll tell you why, I try to convince all my friends to read these books all the time, If someone is finally worn down by my nagging and since too much nostalgia is connected to my original copy I've simply bought two loaners, so as many people as possible get to read this book.
If this makes me a part of the Adrian Plass canon, I don't mind, It's still not worse than Leonard Thynn borowing that cat, Why did he borrow that cat I can't remember, . .

Just kidding, i can SO remember, Read it, read it, read it,
This was a nice, light and funny read about Adrian as a public speaker, He fills us in with all the church characters, including his son, Gerald and wife, Ann, showing that the church is a group of people with all the usual faults and weaknesses but on the whole a loving and supportive bunch of people.
Adrian and his family travel abroad to Australia in this book for him to do some speaking and we have a description of his time there.
Recommended. Adrian Plass has a way of making you laugh hysterically and think deeply at the same time, Feel I have learned more from this book about Christianity and a relationship with God than most of the other Christian books I have read, and it didn't throw it in my face and have me feeling depressed whilst doing it!
Adrian Plass lovers got their initial baptism of laughter through his bestseller, The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass aged/.
The author's account of serious spiritual experiences naturally made him in demand as a public speaker so of course another diary was inevitable.
The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Christian Speaker aged/ continues the misadventures of Adrian's fictional alterego, As Plass gathers regularly with his support group, we meet old friends, including his longsuffering wife, Anne son Gerald, now grown but no less irrepressible loony and loveable Leonard Thynn Edwin, the wise church elder and Richard and Doreen Cook, who are just as religious as ever.
We also meet some new characters, such as Stephanie Widgeon, who only seems to have one thing to say, ever.
. . and who knows, we might even find out why Leonard Thynn borrowed Adrian's cat all those years ago, And finally what is a banner ripping seminar" Despite making fun of Christianity's many flaws and traditions it keeps the core: the love, care, mercy and beauty of our faith.
Very sincere. Maybe to much on a few occasions, And hilarious. Which Adrian manages to combine in one excellent story, Brilliant! Had even more laughedmyheadoff and almostmademecry moments than with the first Diary, Especially loved the Scripture rewrites thing: both hilarious and instructive at the same time,
The first book in a long time that made me sit in the sofa, next to my wife, giggling to myself! : the writing has matured with the writer.
. . the characters haven't Entertainingly meaningful, The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Christian Speaker, aged/Adrian Plass,

The original bestselling Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged½ is a brilliant take on ordinary church members who wish their spiritual life was a little more evangelicaldramatic, and gently pokes humour at evangelical hangups whilst still very much loving the tribe hes writing from.
This volume continues the story but now the fictionalised Adrian Plass is on a speaking tour, Whenever Im feeling a little blue or out of sorts, I reach for Adrian Plass, He should be given out by vicars on prescription, His humour is a little dated now this book was written a while ago, but its heart is good and theres much wisdom behind the humour.
This time, I was struck by the temptation to fame and what a contradiction it is for Christians, If youve never read Plass before, start with the Sacred Diary, Aged,otherwise get this and enjoy, Adrian Plass is a writer and speaker who has produced over thirty books in the last twenty years, The best known of these is probably The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, a gentle satire on the modern church, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.
This and other books have travelled to other countries and are translated into a number of foreign languages, Other books include biography, novels, short stories, a fictionalised account of the authors experiences as a residential child care worker, and collections of poems and sketches.
A bemused Anglican, Adrian lives with his wife and daughter in a small market town near the Sussex South Downs.
Adrian has been in demand as a speaker in venues as varied as prisons, schools, chur Adrian Plass is a writer and speaker who has produced over thirty books in the last twenty years.
The best known of these is probably The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, a gentle satire on the modern church, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.
This and other books have travelled to other countries and are translated into a number of foreign languages, Other books include biography, novels, short stories, a fictionalised account of the author's experiences as a residential child care worker, and collections of poems and sketches.
A bemused Anglican, Adrian lives with his wife and daughter in a small market town near the Sussex South Downs.
Adrian has been in demand as a speaker in venues as varied as prisons, schools, churches, festivals, literary dinners and theatrical settings.
His work also includes contribution to national and local radio and television, Live presentations combine humour, poetry, and story telling, largely revolving around his own inadequacies and struggles as a Christian and a human being.
In recent years Adrian has been joined by his wife Bridget in presenting a varied and dramatic style of performance.
Adrian and Bridget met at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and have found particular satisfaction in being allowed to do a bit of acting.
They have also been privileged to work alongside World Vision on several occasions, visiting Bangladesh and Zambia, writing two books and touring both in the UK and abroad with the aim of encouraging people to take up child sponsorshipTheir work now takes them as far away as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Africa, while trips to Europe have introduced the added dimension of speaking through interpreters.
Not easy when you're trying to be funny!Adrian's latest books include Jesus Safe Tender and Extreme, published by Zondervan, Blind Spots in the Bible, published by BRF, and most recent of all Bacon Sandwiches and Salvation published by Authentic Media.
He and Bridget have also collaborated with friends in Canada to produce a CD of his favourite sketches from the lastyears called Preaching to the Converted while A Touch of Plass, CTAs documentary video, is now out on DVD.
began with a visit to Bolivia for Bridget and Adrian in collaboration with the charity Toybox to look at projects involving street children.
Later on there will be a DVD, a book and a number of presentations promoting their work, Adrian's central motivation continues to be his love for Jesus, although some may feel he expresses it rather eccentrically, His passion is to communicate the need for reality in faith, and a truth that he learned during a difficult stage in his life: "God is nice and he likes me" Some have described his work as being one long confessional.
They may well be right! sitelink,