Here are nine new and challenging ways to look at these familiar verses.

The writing style is direct, controversial, and thought-provoking.  Concise research is presented in an efficient smooth flowing style allowing the reader to pause, process, and return to the text as and when insight and understanding is accomplished.

The book reads easily, and because of it, thoughts proceed fluently --  prompting questions of self, as well as cultural examination.  

One of the recurring themes in the book is the comparison of a “beattitudinal lifestyle” with life in contemporary America.  American readers may find these correlations uncomfortable, as the gulf between American values and Jesus’ recommendations is revealed.