February 1, 2012 – 7:51 am
The Book: Shepherding a Child’s Heart, by Tedd Tripp
The Story: This really is just another parenting book. The “twist” on this one, I guess, is that Tedd Tripp claims that his method of parenting is firmly based in the Bible and is the technique that will guide your kid down the “straight and narrow” from [...]
October 19, 2011 – 9:11 pm
The Book: The Shack, by William P. Young
The Story: Mac’s daughter is kidnapped on his watch. He is watching the kids play while they are camping, there is an accident and his youngest daughter goes missing. By the time she is found in a small shack in the woods, she is dead and her murderer [...]
The Book: The Preservationist, by David Maine
The Story: You know this one, I’m sure. Noah builds a boat. Noah gets the animals in two-by-two. Big flood comes and washes everything away. Noah & his family are the only survivors. They re-populate the Earth. There ya go.
This book bounces from perspective to perspective: Noah, his wife, [...]
The Book: Same Kind of Different As Me: A modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together, by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
The Story: Denver Moore and Ron Hall really could not have led lives that were more opposite than the ones that they were leading: Denver was a [...]
The Book: Kaleidoscope: Seeing God’s Wit and Wisdom in a Whole New Light, by Patsy Clairmont
The Story: The idea here is that kaleidoscopes are kind of whimsical and just offer up random little pictures and yadda yadda. In this book, Patsy Clairmont does a similar deal only out of the book of Proverbs. She just [...]
The Book: Stalking the Divine, by Kristen Ohlson
The Story: One Christmas, Kristen Ohlson wondered into a Catholic church in Cleveland. She had wondered away from any type of religion for years and just wanted to go to church on Christmas. It turns out that this Catholic church has a cloister of nuns called the Poor [...]
November 14, 2009 – 8:12 am
The Book: Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality, by Rob Bell
The Story: This book, as the subtitle says, goes into the connections between God and sex. It starts out very broad, talking about how we’ve distorted sex and our sexuality until it has little to do with what God has in [...]