There’s more to Jesus, urges author—and his book

Lover of your soul gets fuller expression in new Signs publication

Warning! A new book that seeks to provide more complete answers to the question of who Jesus is may not only change your heart but also your mind.

The renewed call within some circles of Seventh-day Adventism to lift up Jesus excites author Pr Shawn Brace. “It’s been much needed and long overdue,” he says. “As I scan the images that have been presented, I just have a huge burden that we provide depth to those images, so we see the fullest and most beautiful expression of who Jesus is.”

This is the impulse for There’s More to Jesus, a new book from Signs Publishing, launched at annual conventions organised by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Victoria and in Western Australia over Easter. It has also launched in North America in the lead up to the church’s summer convention season.

The fresh theological reflections and insights embedded in this book could trigger a stirring paradigm shift in your own heart, too.Pr Dwight Nelson

Brace is minister in Bangor, Maine, as well as a speaker, a blogger and a contributor to Adventist publications. There’s More to Jesus is his third book, each of which, he says, combines his love of theology and of ideas with interactions with real people. In a pastoring context, he explains, “theology is not simply theoretical. It has hands, legs and feet—and frames the questions that [each of my books] seeks to address.”

There’s More to Jesus includes a foreword by Pr Dwight Nelson, Senior Minister of Pioneer Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church at Andrews University, where Brace completed his ministerial studies. Nelson referenced the manuscript for the book in a sermon this past year, testifying to the impact it had in his heart and on his mind.

“The inherent danger in possessing ‘the truth’ is that we can miss the forest for the trees, becoming so enamoured with the parts that we totally miss the big picture—a very big picture, as this book convincingly advocates,” writes Nelson in the foreword. “The fresh theological reflections and insights embedded in this book could trigger a stirring paradigm shift in your own heart, too.”

Reflecting his passion for the topic and its importance for the church, Brace says There’s More to Jesus proved to be his “easiest” book-writing project to date. “I put a significant amount of time and energy [into it],” he says. “But when you’re writing about the Lover of your soul and the affections of your heart that such a thought elicits, the concepts and ideas tend to easily and naturally flow.”

There’s More to Jesus includes questions for personal reflection or small group discussion.

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