Gaining a heart of wisdom
When I pick up my boys after band, play practice, or 4H, I tend to ask pretty much the same questions on our ride home. Nothing profound, mind you, just, "Who did you see?" and "Anything exciting happen?" kind of questions. It's not that I really need to know that they practiced Smoke on the Water again… Continue reading Enjoying the Truth
I've never read a book quite like A Trip around the Sun. Picture two guys -- good friends on camera and off -- moving with easy, relaxed conversation from one topic to another before an audience in a cozy, intimate studio. That's the atmosphere created by Mark Batterson and Richard Foth, as they weave into their… Continue reading Another Day. Another Adventure.
Questions have a way of getting under our skin. They engage us and stimulate discussion where a statement would simply fall flat. Writer, speaker, and entrepreneur John Busaker has chosen eight questions that came directly from the mind and mouth of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospels, and in Dare to Answer, he challenges… Continue reading Eight Penetrating Questions
Seventy years after the end of World War II, The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom's record of courage and grace during the darkest days of European history, has been released in a Young Reader's Edition for youth ages 9-12. Authors Elizabeth and John Sherrill actually travelled with Corrie back in the 1960's and have beautifully captured her story and… Continue reading Seventy Years After the Holocaust: The Hiding Place
In her third book, Gloria Furman promises "to drill down to the things that matter," and her busy readers will find that she does, indeed, honor her word. The Pastor's Wife was written in the small spaces between mothering four children and serving alongside her church-planting husband on the Arabian peninsula, so it is more than simply a… Continue reading Digging Into Grace
In a meandering, three-way conversation with far-away friends, we began to ponder the term: just exactly what does it mean to be "reformed"? Without thinking, certainly with no editorial or theological censors in place, I said, "I would, actually, rather say that I'm reforming!" After that conversation, the statement lingered in memory and wafted its way into… Continue reading Just One Thing: Reforming
Happy 25th Anniversary to you, my dear, patient husband! Saying our vows – you in a spiffy tux, me in yards of satin and lace – we committed ourselves to the union that was being forged between us on that day as ‘heirs together of the grace of life,’” (I Peter 3:7). By the grace… Continue reading Silver Anniversary. Golden Memories.
As an artist, Kelly O'Dell Stanley brings a fresh perspective to her every day living. As a Christian, part of her every day living includes prayer. Praying Upside Down is her road map toward a life in which prayer is not merely an afterthought or a rabbit's foot. Following the paths of her high school insecurities, her… Continue reading A New Perspective
Nancy Pearcy's biographical sketch, woven into the pages of Finding Truth, chronicles her journey from agnostic, teenage skeptic to professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University -- but that is not the point of the book. Her goal is to make a case for critical thinking in the church. Offering her memoir as exemplar and… Continue reading Unmasking the Substitutes
I'll admit it. I can be just a teensy bit compulsive about my daily to-do list. Could this be why it does my heart good to see that God has included lists in the Bible? Chapters eleven and twelve of Nehemiah are, essentially, a series of lists: leaders (v. 3); members of the tribes of… Continue reading Just One Thing: Order
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