Category: Book Reviews
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Closer than Close, a Review
“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27 What if we redefined what a relationship with God means? We have relationships with our friends. We meet with them over coffee, dinner, or activities. They support us in our trials, and we cheer them on in their victories. Our relationships tend to be meet-ups. Do…
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A Fusion of Krakow and Pope John Paul II
Living inside the biblical story and the story of salvation history. That was the desire of Pope John Paul II, according to New York Times bestselling author George Weigel. In City of Saints, Weigel creates a beautiful spiritual and pictorial travelogue of Krakow, the “city where the twentieth century happened.” (p. 1) Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John…
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Matt & Beth Redman’s Worship Walk
Simple and profound. The Christian walk was meant to be simple and profound. It’s a walk through good times and hard times. Matt and Beth Redman tell us how it can be a worship walk even in the times of suffering. Worship is a choice, and the choice is ours. “In the life of every worshiper, there…
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A Review of Max Lucado’s New View of the Old Rugged Cross
“God does what we cannot do so we can be what we dare not dream: perfect before God.” (p. 71) Max Lucado has compiled over 30 meditations from his books to help readers focus upon God’s great grace in The Gift for All People. As Christians around the world are focusing upon the cross, it…
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Ignite Your Passion for God … a Review
Are you going through the motions of walking the Christian path but lack the excitement you previously possessed or maybe never had? You attend church, sing worship songs, give thanks at meals, and say the right words to church members, but you want to be zealous for God. This is the Bible Study for you.…
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How’s your soul today?
In a sermon in Chicago, A. W. Tozer asked the congregation to pray for him. He asked that they would pray that God would help him live long enough to write a book on the attributes of God devotionally. The Knowledge of the Holy was the answer to that prayer. The Knowledge of the Holy was…
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Heaven … It’s a Promise!
A new year brings a new way to talk about an old subject, heaven. Men, women, and children have shared their stories and imaginations about what heaven is like. Many have claimed that they have been to heaven and back. The Bible gives us much information about heaven. Yet, we still wonder what heaven will…
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Do you know the Holy?
Have you tried to grasp the wonder of the nature of God? “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 And yet,…
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Grace & Freedom when we Lay It Down!
Freedom. Freedom to be what God intended us to be. Freedom to rest in Him. Freedom to let God work. Freedom. Lay It Down is about Gospel freedom. Lay It Down is not about performance … it’s about freedom to live abundantly in all that we were created to be … it’s about freedom to live…