This is a great book that I highly recommend. Below are some excerpts to give you a taste of the book and whet your appetite, or – if you’re a little more of a SparkNotes type – allow you to say you’ve read it without actually having to take the time. Come to me, all […]
This is a series of excerpts from a book called Edwards on the Christian Life by Dane C. Ortlund. Specifically, the words below come from a chapter entitled “Pilgrimage – the Flavor of the Christian Life.” I think they have some resonance for the times we’re living in and pass them along for your encouragement […]
On Christmas Eve we had some friends over and something was said about hobbies. My son and daughter were in the conversation and my son said, “Dad doesn’t have any hobbies.” He didn’t say this dismissively or critically, he just said what he perceived to be fact. It’s actually what I would’ve said about me […]
This book was written in the 1530s by a German monk named John of Landsberg. He wrote in Latin but it was later translated into English in the late 1500s and then into its current form in 1990. It is written as if Jesus authored a letter to His followers (the full original title was […]
I recently re-read this book after having read it when it first came out about ten years ago. I decided to re-read it because lately my prayer life hasn’t been what it should be. Reading it was both encouraging and very sobering; encouraging because of what God can accomplish through prayer and sobering because it […]
This is somewhat of a random book both to write and to select to read. It’s a sort-of history of Oklahoma City written from the standpoint of it being a unique place with a unique history and civic makeup. The book is not exhaustive by any means, and the author builds much of the story […]
This book is a novel written as a biography of Jesus. It takes stories from the gospel accounts and fills in dialogue, feelings and thoughts and puts them into a collected narrative of Jesus’ life. It’s written primarily from the perspective of two people – John the beloved disciple and Mary the mother of Jesus. […]
It’s an enormous book but it’s worth the look You won’t regret the time that reading it took It’s a comprehensive story about Alexander Hamilton And includes a lot about Jefferson and Washington It’s got politics and love, war and duels Guys shooting at each other like ignorant fools Big names, big egos and founding […]
The author begins this book with a fairly provocative statement: In the last few years I have given up on the many medical measures – cancer screenings, annual exams, Pap smears, for example – expected of a responsible person with health insurance. The reason she’s done this – she says later in the chapter – […]
Enormously comprehensive book about Al Capone and the effort to shut him down mounted by Eliot Ness and his ‘Untouchables.’ If you like gangsters and like Prohibition history, this is a really good read. It’s essentially a biography of both men and gives a great picture of what Chicago was like in the 1920s and […]
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