Unleashing the Power to Defeat Our Personal Goliaths Rob Marshall draws from personal experiences and from the life of David in this book of inspiration, practical tips, and sound advice. Taking lessons from the life of David, we learn about the characteristics of faith. We can begin to look for those same characteristics in our [ Read More ]
Hollywood Must Be Destroyed by Daniel Wade Schroder Category: Fiction / Humor 104 pages; ISBN: 1588204510 Once upon a time, Tom Brantley and Michael Lewis were two investment bankers happily muddling through life in a tony New York firm. While they enjoyed their work and a never-ending game of guessing the artists of bad 80s [ Read More ]
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God [Soft Cover]By Francis Chan205 pages, $14.99ISBN-13: 978-1434768513David C. CookNonfiction It is refreshing to read a book that directly addresses the problem inherent in Christianity today. Have many who darken the doors of various churches forgotten the central message of Scripture: the Creator of the Universe loves us all [ Read More ]
If one didn’t look at the title of Dr. Tyler’s book, “Jesus Christ: Self-Denial or Self-Esteem,” they might think they were reading a book about the life of Christ instead of a refutation of the self-esteem movement. Dr. Tyler takes a different approach that’s characteristic of some of the other books on critiquing self-esteem. He [ Read More ]
The Disappearance of God: Dangerous Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness [Hardcover] by R. Albert Mohler Jr. 208 pages, $14.99 ISBN-13: 978-0307456298 Nonfiction The Roman philosopher Seneca noted, “Other men’s sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.” Certainly, it is easier to see the sin committed by others while grudgingly hiding [ Read More ]
There has been an escalation in the number of anti-Catholic imagery and rhetoric in recent times. This is the result of traditional anti-Catholicism and fundamentalism as well as the secular anti-Catholicism of contemporary culture. Traditional anti-Catholicism:It is not uncommon to find anti-Catholic extremist equating Catholicism with Satanism. Some popular anti-Catholic allegations include:* The Pope is [ Read More ]
Exile by Kevin PagliaAmerica House, 1588518744, $19.95 Mathias Kabrea is on the lam, surviving in a universe governed by an all-knowing computer called Nezzar created generations ago to bring order. Instead it brings fear, and at times chaos. The life of a fugitive is the only one Mathias has known, ever since his father was [ Read More ]
The Well-Heeled Murders by Cherry Hartman Category: Fiction / Mystery ISBN: 1883523109 Morgan McRain is not a detective, but certainly she has seen enough episodes of Murder, She Wrote to know the basic routines of searching for clues and deducing the guilty party from a list of suspects. So when the office mate of a [ Read More ]
“Shadow of Light” by Rodney Christian Power is a very good spiritual fiction book. I have to disclose that the book was sent me for the purpose of providing a review, that Mr. Power is Canadian (so am I) and that his middle name is Christian (so am I). If this taints my review in [ Read More ]
Franchising McChurch: Feeding Our Obsession with Easy Christianity. [Soft cover] by Thomas White & John M. Yeats 240 pages, $14.99 ISBN-10: 1434700046 Nonfiction Review by Steven King, MBA, MEd Many years ago, Christianity’s greatest apostle wrote an amazing letter to a church in a thriving metropolis. To the church at Corinth Paul intimated, “I have [ Read More ]
