Takeaway: Fixed hour prayer is a great way to focus on God throughout the day, but hard to do in a modern, busy world. Purchase Links: Hardback, Paperback, Kindle Edition For the past couple months I have been trying to do fixed hour prayers. The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime is part of a four book series by … Read more
Last week I profiled my favorite audiobook source Audible.com. This week it is a free source for audiobooks, at least for some people. NetLibrary is not something you can subscribe to, it is something your local library subscribes to. So right off the bat a signficant group of people will not be able to use … Read more
When I agreed to review this book I was specifically thinking of a friend that had asked me for a recommendation for a Chronological bible earlier this year. I knew that such bibles existed but I had not read one. So I was not really sure what to expect. I knew this was not a bible, but a background … Read more
Friday I posted about why the church should be working toward greater unity. Saturday I posted about John Armstrong’s understanding of how to deal with issues of truth, individualism and how God works in history. Today I am looking at how Your Church Is Too Small addresses steps to move forward. In the end I … Read more
Part one of this review is here and part three is here. ___ Yesterday I posted an introduction to Your Church is too Small. It was mostly about why we as a church should strive toward unity. Theorectially, I do not think many people disagree with the idea that the church of Jesus Christ should … Read more
I wanted to like Hear No Evil before I even picked it up. I have been following Matthew Paul Turner on twitter for a while. And most of the time I have really liked his humor. (No one can be funny all the time.) In all the books I have been reading, I have over … Read more
This review is a bit over 4 years old now. I have left the main review in place and just added some of the new features at the top. _______ Since Amazon purchased Audible they have been actively working to increase the integration of kindle books and audiobooks. This has happened several ways. The most … Read more
Tithing can be a tricky topic in some crowds. I have never really understood why it is such a taboo subject. Maybe it is because I am a pastor’s kid, maybe it is because it was never really a question whether you gave or not. So I guess I do not really understand the trepidation … Read more
If you read my reviews frequently, then this book is going to be way outside my normal content. Only about 1 in 8 books I review is fiction. And all except for 2 of the fiction books I have reviewed here have been Fantasy or Science Fiction. I am not traditionally a suspense/horror reader. The … Read more
Ebooks are here to stay. Whether you like the idea of ebooks or not, they are going to be sticking around. Personally, I am trying to move more and more of my world digital. My filing cabinet is almost empty. My bookshelf with the few paperbooks that I really don’t want to get rid of … Read more