Book Reviews
One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land
by Priscilla Shirer
Review by Christy Carmean Have you ever read a book that caused you to say, “Ouch!”? Not because you got a paper cut while turning one of the pages or because the cost of the book was so exorbitant, but because you wondered how God could arrange this particular book to be in your hands [...]
Margin
by Richard A Swenson, MD
Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives Review by Christy Carmean “Margin-less is being thirty minutes late to the doctor’s office because you were twenty minutes late getting out of the bank because you were ten minutes late dropping the kids off at school because the car ran out of gas two [...]
The Circle Maker
by Mark Batterson
Need a jump start in your prayer life? Looking for some good illustrations of answered prayer? Feeling like you need to pray more, but not sure if you can find the time? You want to pray, but can’t seem to find the right words, or even stay awake? If so, The Circle Maker by Mark [...]
Idol Lies
by Dee Brestin
Facing the Truth About Our Deepest Desires “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who [...]
The Seasons of God
by Richard Blackaby
How the shifting patterns of your life reveal his purposes for you “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a [...]
The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God’s Best Version of You
by John Ortberg
Most days I wish that becoming like Jesus was an event, not process. If you are anything like me, the struggle between my flesh and the Spirit is constant. Like Paul shares in Romans 7, I do what I don’t want to do, and what I should do, I don’t. I say things I shouldn’t [...]
Parenting with Love and Logic
by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
“Because I said so.” “No!” “Didn’t I ask you to take out the trash?” “Hurry up or we’re going to be late!” If you grew up or live in a typical home, those phrases probably sound pretty familiar. You may have heard them from your parents. You may have even decided that when you grew [...]
Unglued
by Lysa TerKeurst
Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions Unglued: Upset, disordered, to become extremely upset or angry; to fail suddenly or completely – Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary All of us as women can admit, if we are honest, that we can fall into the category of being unglued with hardly a minutes’ notice. Crazy traffic, [...]
From Faking It To Finding Grace
by Connie Cavanaugh
Discovering God Again When Your Faith Runs Dry If we are really honest with ourselves—we have all been there. Maybe for a few days or weeks, but some of us for years. Most of the time we suffer in silence. It’s just not acceptable to talk about it openly. When it is mentioned, people always [...]
Going Deep: Becoming a Person of Influence
by Gordon MacDonald
“The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.” – Richard Foster When I read that quote it causes me to do some soul searching. Am I a deep person? What am I doing to promote personal depth? And then the next level of [...]