Julie Cave has a great future in Christian fiction. I was really impressed with her book The Shadowed Mind. I read it in less than two days. I simply couldn’t put it down. While fiction, Cave deals with some heavy stuff in The Shadowed Mind. The main topic underlying the storyline is eugenics, including the…
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Sun Stand Still by Steven Furtick
If you’re not daring to believe God for the impossible, you may be sleeping though some of the best parts of your Christian life. That’s what the back of the book boldly proclaims. Sun Stand Still is a book about having the faith that God can do the impossible in your life. Sun Stand Still…
Book Review – Hipster Christianity
It seems like Christianity is facing an identity crisis. That is the main idea behind Brett McCracken’s book Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide. I was immediately interested in the idea when I first saw the book. Take a look around postmodern Christianity; it’s all about trying to be cool, culturally relevant and hip….
Don’t Waste The Pain by David Lyons & Linda Lyons Richardson
Don’t Waste The Pain was a difficult book for me to read, and yet very timely. Brother and sister authors, David Lyons and Linda Lyons Richardson, take a deep look at the pain in their lives caused by cancer. Linda has dealt with cancer for a decade, while David recently lost a son to a…
Discerning Truth, by Jason Lisle
I finished reading Jason Lisle’s book, Discerning Truth, last night. I have to admit, it was pretty enlightening, even though logic and reasoning aren’t topics I find highly interesting to read about. Lisle’s purpose for Discerning Truth is simple. Explain the logical fallacies that are used frequently in the creation/evolution debate. In order for an…
The Narnia Code, by Michael Ward
Have you ever read The Chronicles of Narnia? The Chronicles are some of the best loved stories of the 20th century, and for good reason; C.S. Lewis wrote so intricately and deeply that you can uncover new layers of meaning every time you read them. Lewis claimed that each of the seven volumes were “all…