Amos proclaims judgment on seven nations surrounding Israel. He prophesies against Israel’s neighbors before finally working his way back to Israel itself. Six of the seven countries are pagan – the seventh is Judah. The purpose of these prophecies seems to be to show God as judge over all the earth, not just Israel. It […]
Total beach/vacation book. Easy read, no messages, no deep meanings. It’s a science fiction story about a conspiracy in a settlement on the moon. The story keeps your attention and if you’re planning to be on a beach soon – and you like science fiction (and you’re a guy, as it’s a total guy book) […]
Exquisitely written, cleverly structured, powerfully resonant to the very last line. . . . A profoundly intelligent and empathetic novel of privilege and poverty, advancement and entrapment. – Wall Street Journal Simply gorgeous. . . . A State of Freedom is a marvel of a book, shocking and beautiful, and it proves that Mukherjee is […]
The Spanish Flu, which raged across the world as a pandemic from 1918-1920, infected one out of three people IN THE WORLD (500 million out of 1.5 billion). It killed anywhere from 10-20% of the people it infected, so somewhere between 50 and 100 million people died. If the upper range is correct, it killed […]
This is the second book I’ve read this year about the Golden State Warriors. The first book was Golden Days by Jack McCallum, which dealt with one season and specifically on Jerry West’s role with the team. This book is broader in scope as it tells how the team was turned around by Joe Lacob and […]
Jesus concludes His sermon with a final application comparing those who look saved with those who truly are. He already discussed people who go through the wide gate and travel the wide way versus those who go through the narrow gate and travel the narrow way. He explained that there are false teachers who bear […]
This is not a new book – written in 2007 – but I read something about it a few months ago and so have had it on my ‘to-read’ list for this year. I’m glad I did. It started out a little slow, but after a couple of chapters I started enjoying it and really […]
The book is a biography of Chester Arthur and the title refers to his becoming president after James Garfield was assassinated. Arthur had been added to the ticket purely as a sop to the New York contingent at the Republican convention, not because anyone thought he would make a good president. So he was unexpected […]
There are two ways to go about discussing the authenticity and trustworthiness of the Bible. There’s the apologetic view, which seeks to prove the reliability of the Bible through external proofs and historical evidence. Things like: Not one major doctrine of orthodox Christianity rests on a disputed or uncertain translation of the Bible’s original languages. […]
In this text Jesus takes a break from outlining the precepts of the Kingdom and encourages us to get help from the King to obey the King’s commands. He’s at a point in the sermon where He essentially says to His listeners, “If you’ve been paying attention you should realize by now that you stand […]
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