Category: Book Reviews
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Life with a Capital L … A review
Matt Heard, senior pastor of Woodmen Valley Chapel in Colorado Springs, has given Christians a gift with a capital “G” in his book Life with a capital L. A moment in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow forever transformed him. Nikolai Yaroshenko’s painting There is Life Everywhere…
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Colliding with destiny … Finding hope in the legacy of Ruth, A Review
This book is a must read for women who are in the middle of challenging times. I have read the book of Ruth quite a few times, but I had never approached it from the perspective of a young woman emerging from great loss, isolation, and the unknown. Sarah Jakes offers practical insight about…
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The lyre and the lambs … A review
Sydney Avey’s sequel to The Sheepwalker’s Daughter masterfully walks the reader through the winding path of relationships, faith, and discovery. Set in the sixties, tradition clashes with modernity in one neighborhood. Difference erupted in opposition. Dee’s mother’s home burned to the ground in The Sheepwalker’s Daughter. Tradition burned. Dee’s daughter, Valerie, built a modern…
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Biblical Healing and Deliverance … A review
Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and rulers of the darkness of the world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:11-12 Satan doesn’t want…
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If God is Good … Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil – A review
If the Creator of the world is good, why is there evil? Randy Alcorn tackles an age-old question with unique insight and logic. I have asked “Why?”many times. Like Job, never an answer to the question, but a refocus on the greatness of God. Alcorn writes: Grace and forgiveness, both expressions of God’s eternal character,…
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Unwrapping Lazarus, a review
Dr. Pete Carter’s job description is “to bring hope wherever I am.” Unwrapping Lazarus: Freeing the Supernatural in Your Life beckons the reader to unwrap the bindings of traditions and learned religion in order to open our lives to the great and precious promises and possibilities that God has for His children–to live in freedom…
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One way love … belovedness before loveliness
If you eat your spinach, you will be healthy. If you study, you will get good grades. If you smile, people will like you. Pastor Tullian Tchividjian points out that Christians often approach God in the same way. If … then. Sure, we recognize that we have broken the Law of God, and that disqualifies us…
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Enjoy the pleasure of God’s company
Dutch Sheets addresses a much-needed subject for today’s busy Christian in The Pleasure of His Company. Sheets walks the reader through the Bible to examine followers like David, Joshua, Paul, Jesus, and even Samson. Throughout the book of short meditations, he peppers his writing with practical, everyday applications, many times stemming from his relationships and marriage.…