He needs someone to fight for. All too often we as men enter marriage unaware of the task at hand, the constant battle that is being waged. Well, this third desire shows us that God has wired our hearts to fight this battle, fight for our beauty, and emerge victorious. John tells us that a woman does not want to be the adventure for us men; she desires to be a part of the adventure.

So often as children these desires are at the forefront of who we are. The problem is that the world around us has pushed and squeezed us into its pattern. We have forgotten a once intense desire and traded it in for a safe, polite, boring life. Wild at Heart reminds us of how God created us…after Himself. Our masculine heart is a copy of our Heavenly Fathers', just as the feminine heart completes that copy. Sadly, the world around is not the only one missing the heart's desire. The church has lost it as well. John recommends taking a long hard look at a North American church and not listening to what is said, but seeing what you find. Your findings will show a bored man!

This book is a journey. It brings us as the reader to places we have forgotten. It stirs emotions that we didn't know we had. Chapter after chapter it deals with the issues that have smothered our truly 'Wild Hearts.'

In conclusion, men, I would highly recommend this book as a must read to any of you who are truly desiring to be modern disciples of our Lord Jesus. He Himself demonstrated His wild heart while here among us. I would also like to thank John Eldredge for helping me re-discover my wild heart. Thank you, John, for your obedience. I echo your prayer of helping men and women find their heart, and live the life they both want…the God given one.


Mike Martin
Striving to be a 'Modern Disciple'




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