"If you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak." Acts 13:15
Posted in books on Feb 28th, 2010
Head in hands, forehead pressed into my palms, I sat hunched over in a chair on the back deck. Despite the sunny, glorious spring weather, my heart fluttered while I fought to gain control of my floundering emotions. The swelling of my pregnant tummy reminded me that in the near future my life would spin [...]
Posted in books on Jan 26th, 2010
It’s all too familiar to me – what I call the treadmill syndrome of waking and eating and sleeping with life rushing by in my peripheral view. How many nights have I laid my head on the pillow resolving that tomorrow will be different? Tomorrow I will sit down to read picture books to my [...]
Posted in books on Nov 20th, 2009
My friend Lori passed this title on to me, not necessarily something she deemed a “must read,” but interesting food for thought. What she appeared mildly enthusiastic about has provided a very interesting and engaging read for me. I started this book on our beach trip. While I do recommend the book, I would not [...]
Posted in books on Apr 20th, 2009
I think I might be the last person in Tarrant County to read this book. Despite my anticipation to read it – for literally years now – for some crazy reason I’ve just now gotten around to picking it up. Wow. I’ve heard that response from others – family, friends, and even the Barnes and [...]
Posted in books on Mar 14th, 2009
Well, she did it again. For you lovers of well-composed, thought-provoking fiction, pick up a copy of Mary DeMuth’s Daisy Chain and move it to the top of that must-read pile on your nightstand. Just released this month, DeMuth penned a novel that has kept me thinking about her characters and sometimes even praying for [...]
Posted in books on Feb 13th, 2009
Have you read this?If so, would love to hear your thoughts. Of all the books I read in ’08, this stands out most. Don’t know if it’s the absolute best literature I read, but I’m putting it down as most memorable. And most invigorating. I really, really like Mark Batterson’s writing and viewpoint. I think [...]
Posted in books on Jan 31st, 2009
So how do you, in a couple hundred pages, capture the story of your oldest son’s near-death drowning and the ensuing years of recovery and healing? Throw in the combined grief and helplessness of enduring it as a family of five, maintaining your marriage, questioning God amidst a deep-rooted faith, and then somehow communicating it [...]
Posted in books on Aug 12th, 2008
Agh!!! I LOVE this book! First, I love the layout. A collection of 4-5ish page essays, easy & entertaining to read whenever and wherever. Second, I love Niequist’s insights into the spiritual snippets of every day life. She dives deep into the motives and intentions of her heart and describes with refreshing honesty how God [...]
I love it when friends pass books on to us. This one came highly recommended, with good reason. Read it yet? In Family Driven Faith, Voddie Baucham challenges parents to disciple their children in such a way as to instill a multigenerational faith that stretches from generation to generation. This book is making the rounds. [...]
In June 1783, three-year-old Sarah Whitcher wanders into the woods and disappears. Got your attention? Enough to make you want to read this children’s book describing the true story? What about when you read on that for three long days friends and neighbors search the woods in Warren, New Hampshire with no luck, until a [...]