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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath breaks down our decision-making patterns and helps to identity the problems of our narrow points of view. It’s a business book, but it can be read to help someone... [Read on]
So we rejoin Rhoda, Samuel, and Jacob as they embark on starting a new Amish community in Maine. This second book starts right where the first leaves off. It begins when Rhoda, Samuel and Jacob are suppose to be heading to Maine. I won’t give... [Read on]
Don’t let the size of Humble Orthodoxy by Joshua Harris fool you: this short work is jam-packed with Scripture and truth. Harris takes Paul’s second letter to Timothy as a loose framework for his thoughts on Christian living. In doing so, his... [Read on]
Desiring God, for those not already familiar, is a treatise on the deep joy and delight found in the life of the Church. Since the time and writing of Immanuel Kant, believers have consistently struggled with the concern that taking pleasure in... [Read on]
"Secrets" by Robin Jones Gunn is the first novel in the Glenbrooke series. This is the second book I have read from the series, "Echoes" being the first, but book number three I think. I haven't read them in order. Apparently it doesn't... [Read on]
I loved the reality shown in this book. Yes, kids (and their parents!) will mess up, and yes, God will be there with His grace and mercy when we fail. These 31 devotionals serve as a great starting point for praying for your children in... [Read on]
Jason Jaggard’s book, Spark, is the story of Jaggard’s founding of his Spark Groups, which he describes both through anecdotes and basic theory throughout its pages. The purpose of the groups is to help people move out of ruts and fear and take... [Read on]
Tish leaves her home in Michigan to get away from heartbreak and heads to Alabama to see the house that used to belong to her great-great-great grandparents. She ends up purchasing it and it doesn't take long to find out those same grandparents... [Read on]
Fortress of Mist Book Two Merlin's Immortals By Sigmund Brouwer About the Book The throne is redeemed but the battle is just beginning. In the dark corners of an ancient land, evil lurks in the shadows. Powerful druids haunt the spaces of... [Read on]
Dorothea Dix was a historical reformer in the 19th century. She knew presidents and other influential lawmakers, but how much is known about her life? In her new book, Jane Kirkpatrick takes us on a journey to see what shaped and molded this... [Read on]