Does anyone know anything about this man? My grandmother is reading his new book 'The Power of Now' and is enraptured with it. The wiki article does not offer much of anything. My grandmother says that he explains the parables of Jesus like no other she has ever heard.

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Nathan Olaf Brandal
First Baptist Church of Kirkland

"Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure"
GEORGE WHITEFIELD TO JOHN WESLEY

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Oprah loves him. What more do you want to know?

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Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA
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"there is no creature, either in heaven or on earth, who loves us more than Jesus Christ"
Belgic Confession, Article 26

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His beliefs summarized if possible.

Honestly all I know is that he is a new-age guru. But this page may be of some use to you.

Daniel just said everything I could say about him, Oprah and all.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

Watch this video and you'll know everything you need to know.

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Wes Bredenhof
Co-pastor, Langley Canadian Reformed Church
Langley, British Columbia
www.bredenhof.ca

Nathan,
These teachings and "solutions" appear cyclically through the years. One time it will be The Celestine Prophecy" then it will be "The Secret" then Tolle's books. Most of them are men or women who know that if you take a smattering of zen and throw in some hindu thoughts along with references to "what Christ really meant" as part of a way the YOU can change YOU and YOU can control your destiny or sieze the moment...then they will sell a million books before people tire and move on.


Oprah sure is searching for something and perhaps marketing more books than any human ever has. I have listened to this guy and he isn't impressive or dynamic or charismatic in anyway. I think Oprah has made him.
In a nutshell the message is all your answers are within you...either decide to abandon the self or embrace the self but it is you, you, you.
I think they rotate the idea between each book.

As you have noticed his biographical info is incredibly vague.

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Richard H. King
Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
"No matter how far a man goes, he eventually finds out God's already there." John Wayne - the last line in "Chisum"