April 2013
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Book Review: Get Lost
This book is your guild to finding true love… with God! In the book it tells you that a girl’s heart should be so lost in God that a man must seek him to find her!This is so not what our society is supporting today, but it is so true. This book helps you discover how to be so lost in God that any man must seek him before they can find you. Dannah Gresh, the author of Get Lost, uses...
July 2012
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Book Review: To Heaven and Back
This is a true story by Mary C. Neal, and it is about her extraordinary account of her death, Heaven, Angels, and life again. In 1999 in the region of southern Chile, orthopedic surgeon, devoted wife, and loving mother Dr. Mary Neal drowned in a kayak accident. She always lived a very active and fast paced life but on that day while going down a waterfall Mary’s kayak pinned against a rock...
May 2012
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Fearless Book Review
This book by Eric Blehm is about the operator from the legendary and courageous SEAL TEAM SIX Adam Brown. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn’t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan—but he was ready. He had already written a letter to his two young children in case the worst happened. He wrote them “I’m not afraid of anything that...
Book Review: The Widow of Saunders Creek
Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero and she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. She just didn’t expect him to sacrifice his life taking on an Iraqi suicide bomber. Several months after his death goes back to the home that Jarrod inherited. Corrie does not want to live without her hero Jarrod....
March 2012
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His Princess Book review
This book by Sheri Rose Shepherd is an amazing book! First of all it is written in a letter form and the letters are from Gods perspective about how much he loves us and how we should live. God sees us as his daughters, his princesses. We should live as if we are worth it. We should never settle for anything less then what God has for us. God is our father and our kind. We are all princesses in...
Book Review: The Scent of Cherry Blossoms
This book is by Cindy Woodsmall, who is know for her amazing Amish novels. This story is about Annie Martin who loves the Plain ways of her Old Order Mennonite people. Martin is Plain Order Mennonite while Aden Zook is Plain Order Amish, but when childhood friendship springs into something more, they are worlds apart. Annie family soon becomes at ends with each other though many tragic events....
January 2012
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Book review: Soul Print
This book is by author and pastor Mark Batterson and it is about discovery your divine destinyand what God’s plan for your life. It talks about the story of David and how he was just a little unimportant shepherd boy, but not to God. God had an amazing plan for Davids life even though he or anybody else know it. It is a good book because it helps you take your strugglesin life to become...
Book Review: Life, In Spite of Me
First of all I have to say this book was amazing!! It is an autobigraphy by Kristen Anderson. She had a a normal loving childhood with parents who loved her and took her to church every Sunday, but it all ended on that one day. One January night, determined to end her pain once and for all, the seventeen-year-old lay across train tracks not far from her home and waited to die, but God had other...
December 2011
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Book Review: The Fourth Fisherman
Joe Kissack had it all… or did he? Cars, a large home, a beautiful wife and family, and a career that most would envy. But he did not have the love of his father. Joe was loves his Hollywood life without a car in the world, while 3 Mexican fisherman were fighting for their lives on a fishing boat stranded in the middle of the ocean. The fisherman, both experienced and talented, and no food,...
November 2011
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Book Review: Mercy COme Morning
This book is by Lisa Tawn Bergren, and it is about a young college professor named Krista Mueller. She is respected and well liked by many and she lives hundreds of miles away from home…away from her mother. It has been more then 10 years since Krista’s mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer. Krista although never really got along with her mom, put her in a first-class nursing home which...
Book Review: Fierce Beauty
This book is by Kim Meeder. It is about standing for what matters most… the inner beauty. In this book Kim takes you though her own journey discovering your inner beauty. In todays society everyone and everything tells us that we must look the best,dress the best, and have the best stuff. To many people have been fooled by the world. God does not care about looks or materal things he cares...
October 2011
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Book Review: Why Church Matters
This book is by Joshua Harris, he also wrote the book I kissed Dating goodbye which I loved so when i seen this as a book for me to review i was excited to read it, and I was not disappointing. Some churches have started to lose their fundamentals in the church. For many of us who attend church it’s just another part of our routine, or we are forced to go. For those who do not attend, but...
September 2011
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Book Review: Raised Right
This book is by Alisa Harris. It is about her life growing up in a family with high political and religious view. Coming from a conservative family Alisa grow up no certain political things, such as abortion is wrong, and gay rights is not ok. But how do things views connect with political elections. After coming out of college Alisa starts to search for her own political beliefs and She began to...
Book Review:Redeeming Love
This amazing good was requested to me by a friend of mine and I could not wait to read it. This books is a modern telling of the book of Hosea,tells the story of a woman who was born to a single mother as a result of her affair with a married man. Angel was brought up in a world of poverty and prostitution. Angel is losing hope and can’t find any way out. Michael Hosea is a Christian and...
August 2011
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Book Review: Waiting for Morning
This book is by Karen Kingsbury, one of my all time favorite authors. This book is the first book in the Forever Faithful series. The book is about forgiveness and healing in a family torn apart but drunk driving. In the book the Ryan family was a typical christian family striving to please God no matter what circumstance they were in…but that is all about to change. One day Tom Ryan and...
July 2011
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Book Reveiw: Dinner with a perfect stranger
This book is by David Gregory and it is about a middle aged man named Nick Cominsky. One day at work Nick receives a invitation to dinner with Jesus Of Nazareth. After receiving the invitation Nick assumes it is his buddy from work playing a joke on him. Nick decides to accept the odd invatation and goes to a local restaurant to see who this “Jesus” is. After getting there and sitting...
Book Reveiw: To be perfectly honest
This book is by Phil Callaway and it tells about his challenge that he was given. The challenge was to see if he could tell the truth, and nothing but the truth for a whole year. This book is a journal about him embracing the challenge and the journey along the way. This challendge leads to financial investment troubles, thousands a questions from friends and family wanting to know the truth, and...
June 2011
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Book Review: The Inconvenient Marriage of...
This book is by Kathleen Y’Barbo. It is a book about Charlotte Beck, she is a spirited stubborn teenage girl who always seems to be messy things up. After she makes one to many mistakes her dad forces her to marry Alex Hambly. Her dad promises to by for Alex’s family debt and allow Charlotte to go to college if they marry.
This is a historical fiction book and not one of the best...
May 2011
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Book Review: Radical
This is an Amazing book, that every Christian should read. The book radical is by David Platt a pastor The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama. This book is a challenge for all Christian to take back there faith from the American Dream and be Radical for Jesus. it makes us think about the worlds view of being a Christian and the biblical view.
This is a book every christian should. I...
Departures Book Review
The book Departures is by Robin Gunn. It is about two teenage girls who go out on and adventure during their Summer! Christy Miller is on her way to Wisconsin to visit relatives, but after getting their she reunites with her old crush Matthew. Christy soon realizes that her Summer is full of possibles and quality time with God. The other main character is Sierra. She is on her way to Montana...
April 2011
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Book Reveiw: I Kissed Dating Goodbye
I absolutely loved this book by Joshua Harris. This book is an insight on dating and relationships in the world today.This book challenges the reader to consider relationships as the God intended them to be.This book is not just about dating but also our relationships with our peers. It encourages the reader to rethink their ideas about relationships and ending the cycle that the world considers...
March 2011
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Book Review: Churched
This book is written by Matthew Turning. This book is an autobiography about the author and how he grow up in a fundamentalist church. This book is full of stories that are witty and full of charisma. It tells his journey growing up in the church and falling in love with Jesus. I loved this book, i thought it was funny and down to earth. I now how it feels to grow up in the church and I found it...
Book Review: When the Heart Cries
This book is by Cindy Woodman and is the second book of the Sister of the Quilt Series. When the main character named Hannah Lapp falls in love with a Mennonite named Paul, Hannah believes that thing could not possible get more complicated… or can it. After walking home from Paul’s house Hannah is assaulted by a strange man, this event tests everything that Hannah believes in.
I...
February 2011
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Book Review: Plain Wisdom
The Book Plain wisdom is a great book friendship among to friends with to different life styles. Cindy Woodsmall is a New York Times best seller author who becomes friend with Miriam Flaud a Old Order Amish . Together these woman share their times of hardship,love, and perseverance.
I enjoyed this book because of the insight it gave me on the Amish life and a true God serving woman. This book is...
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