Review: Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley

6 December 2011

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Review: Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley

In Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, pastor Andy Stanley calls readers to break free from the destructive power of guilt, anger, greed, and jealousy. These four forces, says Stanley, have the power to destroy your home, career, and friendships if left unchallenged. They take over your life, destroy [...]

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Review: Work Matters by Tom Nelson

20 November 2011

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Review: Work Matters by Tom Nelson

In Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work, pastor Tom Nelson offers a new perspective on work, providing a look at God’s purposes for work in a way that is both practical and theologically based. He helps readers to make the most of their God-given vocations and to treat their work as God intended, as [...]

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Review: Lit! by Tony Reinke

8 November 2011

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Review: Lit! by Tony Reinke

In Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books, former journalist Tony Reinke offers a theology for reading as well as practical suggestions for reading. Using scripture and a great deal of additional research, Reinke provides Christians with a deep, multifaceted look at the topic of reading. Pastor C. J. Mahaney’s foreword does a thorough job at [...]

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Review: Honestly by Johnnie Moore

28 October 2011

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Review: Honestly by Johnnie Moore

In Honestly: Really Living What We Say We Believe, Johnnie Moore, vice president and campus pastor of Liberty University, challenges readers to live an authentic Christian life. He argues that one of the chief problems with Christians, particularly those in the US and other developed countries, is that we have become hypocrites, whether intentionally or otherwise. We [...]

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Review: Putting Plan B Into Action: A DVD-Based Study

24 September 2011

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Review: Putting Plan B Into Action: A DVD-Based Study

You have a story. Everyone has a story. A story of plans that didn’t turn out as expected, people who disappointed you, goals that didn’t pan out. Maybe you lost your job, you and your spouse have been unable to have children, or a loved one died of cancer. In Putting Plan B Into Action: [...]

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Review: Night of the Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos

20 September 2011

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Review: Night of the Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos

What does a transformed life actually look like? In Night of the Living Dead Christian: One Man’s Ferociously Funny Quest to Discover What It Means to Be Truly Transformed, author Matt Mikalatos uses movie monsters to humorously yet thought-provokingly examine this question. The story follows Matt (yes, a character in his own story, which was [...]

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Review: If My Body is a Temple, Then I Was a Megachurch by Scott Davis (audiobook)

17 September 2011

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Review: If My Body is a Temple, Then I Was a Megachurch by Scott Davis (audiobook)

“For Him to increase in my ministry, I had to decrease in my waistline.” That, in a nutshell, describes comedian Scott Davis’ motivation for losing 132 pounds. In If My Body is a Temple, Then I Was a Megachurch: My journey of losing 132 pounds with no exercise!, Davis describes his journey to a healthy weight [...]

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A Marriage Carol by Chris Fabry and Gary Chapman (audiobook)

12 September 2011

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A Marriage Carol by Chris Fabry and Gary Chapman (audiobook)

In A Marriage Carol, Jake and Marlee Ebenezer are calling it quits on their 20-year marriage. On a snowy Christmas Eve, the parents of three young children are driving to their lawyer’s office to sign their divorce papers when they are in an automobile accident. Awaking in an empty car, Marlee assumes that Jake has [...]

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The Guardian by Robbie Cheuvront and Erik Reed

3 September 2011

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The Guardian by Robbie Cheuvront and Erik Reed

Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” – Revelation 10:8 (ESV) In The Guardian, agnostic Anna Riley discovers that God created her with a special purpose: [...]

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Preparing for the Storm

28 August 2011

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Preparing for the Storm

Here in Maine, many people spent yesterday preparing for Hurricane Irene, the storm that at one point last week meteorologists were saying could be the worst hurricane to hit Maine in 20 years. Last I heard, it was expected to hit Maine this afternoon as a tropical storm, a downgrade about which we are very [...]

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