Tag: book reviews
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A Foundation of Truth
My father was a builder when I was a boy. He and my uncle and the men who worked for them built houses from the ground up. My dad could look at a piece of ground and survey it with his eyes and see a finished house. What just looked to me like piles of…
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The Whole Truth
John 14: 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. There’s always something someone does not tell you when you meet them. You buy a house or rent an apartment and they don’t mention that the toilet doesn’t flush right. An acquaintance tells…
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Method for Prayer – Matthew Henry
Pray The Bible Promoting, encouraging, and assisting biblical prayer http://www.matthewhenry.org/ {Bookmark} Edited & Revised by Ligon Duncan with William McMillan Executive Production by Dan Arnold Español Français بالعربية Not every book thrives in an online format, but Matthew Henry’s A Method for Prayer does! Christian Non-Fiction Book Review by Roger Harned Actual book is online: linked in this review.…
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Seamus Heaney
I have had on my desktop for a month an obituary (or sorts) where I wanted to honor a great poet who lived above the division and violence of politics and religion in Ireland. (I had originally thought, “Northern Ireland,” but that is not how he thought of it anymore than identifying English as Britain.)…
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Christian Anger resource: How to Handle Adversity by Charles F. Stanley
NOTE: Last week we posted a series: ANGRY Children of a Loving God. I wanted to point you toward an additional resource I discovered from a recent study on Christian Anger. I have not read this entire book, yet recommend it with confidence based on the attached: How to Handle Adversity It is important to support…
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Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning – Alice J. Wisler
Christian Non-Fiction Review An Introduction by Roger Harned As I write this on September 21, 2013, my daughter is celebrating her 21st birthday with friends. If you do the math from the cover photo you will see that Daniel Paul Wisler was born just 28 days before my daughter Rachel, who will be hosting our…
