I am reading John Piper’s book When I Don’t Desire God. In a transparent fashion, he admits to 50+ years of fighting the distractions that lure each one of us away from spending our appointed times reading the Word of God:
ADMITTING THE SIN OF RELUCTANCE TO READ THE BIBLE A thousand interesting things compete for [...]
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I did not anticipate this book to be a heavy read and I was correct. However, if you are a Kindle 2 (or even a first generation Kindle) owner, this book might be a good one to add to your collection. The price on Amazon was decent ($4.99 I think) and I found some new [...]
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Another well written historical novel by Steve Berry surrounding returning characters, Cotton Malone, Henrik Thorvaldsen, and Stephanie (Cotton’s former boss). In this story, Malone is reunited with his ex-wife on an adventure from country to country in search of the lost Library of Alexandria and the tomes located within that will unlock both the mysteries [...]
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Finally Alive is a newly published book written by John Piper. Pastor John is the preaching pastor of the church that my family attends in the Minneapolis area. Finally Alive is focused on the Gospel and its message both to the believer and the unbeliever. John unpacks the truths he previously delivered in a sermon [...]
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The context for the book, The Templar Legacy, is detailed enough that it takes a little while for author, Steve Berry, to develop the story’s plot. I found it a little bit of a struggle to be drawn back to the novel during the early part of the book. That was not the case [...]
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A Steady but Riveting Story by a Top Shelf Author
I ordered Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River from Amazon’s Marketplace after reading a brief review by John Piper in his blog. I wasn’t sure how I would enjoy the story which seems to follow a rather methodically pace. What keeps the reader attached is the [...]
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Not your ordinary iPhone “How to” iPhone book
I read the iPhone: The Missing Manual: Covers the iPhone 3G by David Pogue and it served as a “user guide” to most things iPhone. I recently bought Andy Ihnatko’s 2nd Edition of iPhone Fully Loaded expecting it to be a tool to fill in some missing holes [...]
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An Attention Catching Title for a Captivating Book
Timothy J. Stoner is a conundrum for me. Having a some similarity in backgrounds, I found it easy in some respects to relate to his thoughts about how we worship and follow Christ. However, I would characterize this author as anything but typical. I found myself often curious [...]
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A great starter manual for the new WordPress blogger.
When I made a decision last year to get serious about blogging, I had to make two first-step decisions:
1) What platform was I going to use?
and
2) What training tool would I enlist to make me more effective with decision #1?
When I did a book search for WordPress, [...]
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Randy Alcorn’s book Heaven changed my thinking.
Like for many others, trying to imagine what Heaven will be like was difficult for me. The Bible tells us a great deal about Heaven, but I think we often miss most of it because we are too often plagued by the influence what Alcorn calls Christoplatonism. He stresses [...]
