The book is ostensibly about two college football powers in the early twentieth century and specifically about a game where they met in 1912. What the book is really is a detailed account of the Carlisle Indian School and its football coach – Glenn “Pop” Warner – and its most famous athlete – Jim Thorpe […]
John discusses the first of two major themes about the nature of God – God is light. John shows how this truth about God has ramifications for those who claim to be His. 5-7 John says the message we have heard from Him – the Word of Life (Christ) – is that God is light. […]
This is a true story that took place at the turn of the 20th Century in New York. The essential facts of the story are as follows: A sixteen-year-old girl – Evelyn Nesbit – arrives in New York in 1901 and meets a wealthy, influential man three times her age – famous architect Stanford White […]
Written as a social commentary on race, class, politics and greed in the eighties, this book came out in 1987 and is Wolfe’s best-known work of fiction (and rates with The Right Stuff as one of his best-known books overall). I’m a little late to the party in reading it, but when he died earlier […]
John explains the reason for his writing and begins to lay out his case for a true risen Messiah and what that means to those who follow Him. He makes it clear that Jesus was a man in every sense of the word and not simply a spirit. In this short text he also communicates […]
This is the third book by Bowden that I’ve read this year and probably fifth or sixth overall. I’ve yet to be disappointed – he’s really good at whatever subject he takes on. In this case, it’s the NFL Championship Game played on December 28, 1958, between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants – […]
I read this book on vacation because I ran out of reading material and my daughter had it along as her assigned summer reading for high school English class. I’d never read anything by Agatha Christie and am not a seasoned mystery reader. That being the case, I wasn’t used to the rather abrupt ending […]
According to the short biography of the author that’s included on the book jacket, Chuck Carlson was a sportswriter who spent 11 years covering the Packers and this is his tenth book on the team. That being the case, my guess on how this book came about is that his publisher called him up and […]
First John is one of five books written by Jesus’ beloved disciple. It is most likely written after the writing of the Gospel of John. The purpose of the book seems to be twofold – to refute heresy that has arisen in churches John ministered to and to reassure believers by giving them tests by […]
The first half of this book was really dry and I was tempted to give up and move on to more interesting reads. The second half of the book was somewhat less dry and I enjoyed finding out some things about Luther’s life. The bottom line to the whole thing? I wouldn’t bother (I’ve had […]
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