Walking in the footsteps of his family, Mr. Evans gives us sound advice and biblical truths to help inspire us to keep going. It is a challenging read that will make you think and reflect. It will also encourage you to pray and ask God in what direction you should move. Although i know nothing about football, using that analogy, as well as examples from his own personal life, It was easily understandable for me. It will also make you think back to what God has said to you and prompt you to listen for his voice in the future. This is a book you will want to refer to in the future.

I downloaded this title on two separate occasions and both times I only got a portion of the book. I got up to about pg 90 and then realized I had been missing pages from about 60+... just getting every second or third page. Very disappointing! Please check the problem with your digital edition.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is 9 chapters of life-changing values on how to live for Jesus. It will help you figure out what you need to do in your life to move you in the direction God has chosen you.

This book was received as an ARC from Bethany House Publishers in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I could not get enough of the approach Jonathan Evans took to this book and how he incorporated his time in the NFL in comparison to Joshua and Moses' battles with evil and Pharaoh. Having a connection with your higher power is one of the greatest gifts I have ever gotten and this book is clear validation on why. Whenever you have something on your mind that is causing struggle, your time is now to act on it whether you want to see change or not. Always remember that God has a plan for you and remember just because certain events don't happen when you want them to, does not mean that they are not bound to happen for you. I also love the direct tone Jonathan used throughout the book. I felt like he was preaching and I was in the audience shouting AMEN! I know a lot of people in our library community will really be interested in this book.

We will consider adding this title to our B Non-Fiction collection at our library. This is why we give this book 5 stars.

I’m currently going through a rough patch because a contract job I have taken doesn’t seem to be working out in the way I had hoped it would. I got the job without an interview — it landed in my lap almost literally as a gift from God. I’m now debating if it was a gift or not and am trying to figure out what is God telling me about this job. Is it that anything that comes to you too easily will turn out to be not even worth it in the long run? Is it a case of easy come, easy go? Anyhow, when I read the description for Jonathan Evans’ new book Your Time Is Now, I thought it might help me determine what my destiny is with God as it relates to my new job. Alas, no, the book doesn’t go into that too much, not even really as a tangent — even though it did get me thinking about the issue and embellished some of my conclusions on the matter. More to come about that.

This is one of those theology books that have a case of what I call “the Vagues.” The book is so vague that it winds up saying nothing, in my mind. However, I think I can now understand why so many Christian books are so vague, including this one: they’re trying to tick off boxes to make the read as palpable and relevant to as many Christians of a certain stripe as possible. In this case, the book is geared toward Evangelicals — I’m not sure of what flavour of Protestantism that Evans belongs to, but he does talk about sin, Satan, and salvation (and not necessarily in that order). I sort of thought this wouldn’t be a book for me as I went into it, but I was curious to note if there were any lessons that I could take from it that would point me in the direction of what I should be doing with my life — at least, career-wise.

Evans himself seems to be a nice guy. He has a good family and I know this because he shares some interesting stories about his wife and five children in the book. Evans also has a compelling backstory: he’s a former NFL football player turned chaplain for the Dallas Cowboys (which should signal that the flavor of the book is going to be Evangelical). Your Time Is Now is also a remarkably current book. It deals, in part, with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns that we’ve all gone through. So I’ll say upfront that a few good things are going for this book: it’s an easy read, and I’m sure it might be somewhat helpful to Christians who belong to a conservative faith denomination.

However, there’s not much to be said about the content of the volume. It’s as though Evans had a bunch of sermons that he’d written that were loosely connected, and then decided to shoehorn nine or so of them into a short book. Your Time Is Now winds up being remarkably unfocused: it starts off using examples from the Book of Joshua in the Old Testament, but then, maybe about half-way through, it shifts gears and drops the Joshua angle for one about Paul in the New Testament. There’s no discernable reason for the shift. The book chapters take their cues from words, sometimes action verbs, such as “Go,” “Now,” “Yes,” and “Confidence.” How this all ties together beats the heck out of me, and I’ve read the book cover to cover.

That’s not to say that the book isn’t helpful. By the time I’d read the final chapter, I’d began wondering about my job situation and whether or not I’d put enough hard work into finding a job. I’m starting to wonder if I need to bulk up my résumé and just start putting myself out there wherever a decent opportunity is to be found. In other words, I need to do more hard work for God to work His (or Her) wonders through me. Thus, Your Time Is Now does have its utility: it might make you think of some aspect of your life and whether you’re living up to your own or God’s expectations for you. And perhaps there’s a reason or lesson for why I’m going through what I’m going through. Again, maybe I’ve sat back on my laurels too much and wanted job opportunities to come to me rather than go out and land a plum job through hard work and tenacity.

Whatever you take from Your Time Is Now, and as much as the book is mildly enjoyable (despite not aligning with my liberal Christian beliefs), it still doesn’t solve the problem that the book is very much hit-and-miss. Evans tends to ramble on about various things that seemingly have no relevance to the subject of the book, but sometimes his digressions and diversions are entertaining enough. In the end, it seems fitting to say that Your Time Is Now is a book that is a little lop-sided and a little half-baked. It could have been made stronger with the guiding hand of an editor. I would also be challenging and go on to say that Evans could have chopped some of the more conservative aspects of his religion from being mentioned in the text. It could have made the book even more universally appealing — for instance, he brings up that abortion is bad (for no real reason) but drops that thread as soon as he picks it up. Why is it even in the book at all?

Ergo, Your Time Is Now is a mediocre read. Evans has interesting stories and even things to say. He just needs to pay more attention to the overall message. After all, I’m sure he has something to say for people like me — people who are of faith but are going through a bit of a rough patch and could use some spiritual guidance from a book. Your Time Is Now is only less than half that book, alas. It’s somewhat interesting even if it is a less-than-successful book, but I was expecting more from this.