Surviving Sorrow – a great new book
Friends, I had the privilege of reading an advance copy of this book, and I highly recommend it. If you have experienced the loss of a child or want to help a friend who has lost a child, get this book! You can preorder on Amazon for delivery when it’s released on March 5. This is the second book my friend Kim Erickson has written for Moody Publishers. The first is “His Last Words” a study of the last days of Jesus. Kim’s story is heart wrenching. She is a terrific writer and Read more [...]Share on social media:
I Seek Truth
Second book I started this week. This one is written by my friend Terry Squires.
Ninety short devotionals, written in first person. They will cause you to pause and consider the God we serve.
If you are looking for a new book to read through the summer, this is it. You will be encouraged.
I Seek Truth, by Terry Squires.
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Launch Team – Unexplainable Jesus
I joined a new Launch Team. I am working through an eight week study of Luke written by Erica Wiggenhorn. I’ll be posting about the study in the next few weeks.
You can preorder the book at your local bookstore. Just ask them for Unexplainable Jesus. It’s due out later this month.
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“Dementia With Grace”
Dementia With Grace, by Vicky Noland Fitch
This short (I read it in a day) and helpful book is a must read for caregivers of dementia patients. Whether you are a professional or family caregiver you will find tips on dealing with aspects of the disease and how to make life better for yourself and your patients. The book included a great Patient History Form I will be using with my clients*. I read it on Kindle but am ordering paperback for my reference library.
*I am working to become a Certified Read more [...]
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Saint Patrick, Book
“Patrick revealed, among other things, that he believed the gospel he preached. He believed that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, Roman nor barbarian. He believed that God can utterly transform a human heart. He believed that he could rely entirely on God’s mercy, rather than being compelled to paper over his own sins. And he believed that even in the highly charged political atmosphere in which these letters were written and read, Christ was the defender of the weak—including Read more [...]
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Proof of Love
“Proof of love for Christ is simply removed all together from the realm of the feelings and place in the realm of practical obedience.”
A. W. Tozer
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Discipleship
“In the working creed of the average Christian salvation is held to be immediate and automatic, while discipleship is thought to be something optional that the Christian may delay indefinitely or never accept at all...The absence of a concept of discipleship from present-day Christianity leaves a vacuum that we instinctively try to fill with one or another substitute.”
~A.W. Tozer, Marks of Discipleship
Page 10. I only got to page ten and this book stopped me in my tracks!
(I received a free Read more [...]
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Spring Reading
I did quite a bit of traveling this spring. After being in Oklahoma for our son's wedding, I hit the road. I was away from home April 11 through May 10. I was able to visit friends in Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, near Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa. I spent a weekend at a women's conference (check out info for the fall conference) and eight days at a study program where I spent time with men and women from around the country. (The summer study program will be Mark.) I attended my youngest daughter's Read more [...]
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Cult. A Book Review
Cult by J. l. PondRudy is a senior in high school. Though he attends a Christian school and grew up in a Christian home, he struggles with habitual sin and hard questions about God. He can't talk to his parents about his doubts, and, until a new girl comes to school, he thinks no one else would understand his questions about faith. Together along with two friends, Amy and Rudy form a cult to explore truth and find answers to their questions .
Like many books I've read the past few years, this novel Read more [...]
