This book comes from a man with formal theological training, who then went through personal growth in Christ. First learning About God, to personally learning From God. Wonderful insight to the real meaning of Christianity, a Spirit empowered, personal and intimate relationship with Christ. Frye, personally has found the invisible realm of God, with the daily practice of disciplines to make room for God's Spirit to touch his life and bring him the compassion of Christ towards other men, with the only way possible, through God's Spirit and the faith and intimacy with God, that it requires. This is a book that remains within in evangelical thought in the and the framework of literal Biblical thought, yet goes the step further in seeing the spiritual principles behind the letter. Being one step closer towards seeing God outside of written words.

JESUS THE PASTOR was a book assigned to me for a Christian Ministry class at John Brown University. From the moment I read the cover, I knew that I was going to love reading it. Few books have excited me this much about the role of being a pastor and about the person of Jesus Christ. In my personal journey to becoming a pastor myself, John Frye has put the road in front of me into perspective.

God has used JESUS THE PASTOR in conjunction with other events in my life to teach me that even while I am training to assume the OFFICE of pastor that I can and am called to assume the ROLE of pastor in my everyday life. Being available to others and leading a life ordered around Christ as the focus of ministry is an exciting, blessing, and yet humbling road. Through this book, God has taught me so many things and revolutionized my view point of what it means to be a pastor.

Far be it from me to try to teach my elders, but I would recommend this book to ANY person who occupies the office of pastor in the local church. The Church needs committed servant-leaders and under-shepherds to guide the body of Christ. This book is one of the tools God is using to make that happen.

This book was a cup of cool water for me during a dry period of my life.

It is so easy as a pastor to simply pick up the next kit or program that will somehow escalate your church to the "next level". John Frye has brought us back to the fact that Jesus must be our mentor and guide throughout our ministry. He is to be our primary guide in all of pastoral ministry. It is about aligning ourselves as an apprentice of His.

Through this book I learned how I could better lead others in the character and power of Christ.

Thanks to John Frye for this encouraging work!

As a Civil War know-nothing, I found The Seventh Trumpet both educational and inciteful. The organization-- by calandar dates-- is clever and helps the reader locate the events in their historical context.

Set against a backdrop of real Civil War events, it's fast-moving but left me with a real sense of what life must have been like in the South, how people thought, and how those thoughts translated into action-- or inaction, as the case may be, and how the stage was set for the new generations.

Frye's writing is crisp but descriptive and moving.

The Seventh Trumpet is well written, developing characters through many difficult battles and events during the Civil War. The main character, Page, an Episcopal priest, is called to be Robert E. Lee's Chief of Artillery. He takes his personal servant to war with him, Wilson. Wilson's wisdom and his great sense of caring for his fellow humans makes him an outstanding character and allows the reader to appreciate his emotion and intelligence as he makes his evaluation of slavery vs. freedom. The reader watches the priest win battles, pray to be the winner of a terrible war, and watches Page develop as a more caring and thoughtful person as he experiences the devastation of war. Other vivid characters add humor and insight to the main characters, Page and Wilson. By book's end, The Seventh Trumpet has become a very emotionally moving book. I think the book has special merit by making the reader intimate with the perspective of Virginians before and during the war, without being an apology for the 'Southern cause'.