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Book Review: Les Miserables (audio book)

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo My rating: 5 of 5 stars Finished listening to the audio book produced by LivriBox. It is free and it offers multiple readers, some better than others but overall good. They have many classics in their library. This book took me a while to listen, which I mostly did when […]

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Book review: Liturgy in the Wilderness: How the Lord’s Prayer Shapes Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age

Liturgy in the Wilderness: How the Lord’s Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age by D.J. Marotta My rating: 4 of 5 stars I had a hard time getting into it at first, the idea of “imagination” or reimagining (each chapter has this idea) in the Lord’s Prayer didn’t sit well. […]

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Brief review of Inhabiting Time by James K. A. Smith

Inhabiting Time by James K.A. Smith   It was an enjoyable book dealing not with just time in general but our time, how we live our lives in this world God has placed us. God created time and we are part of it. This is significant. We must live keeping this reality in the forefront. […]

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Book Review: Embracing the New Samaria by Alejandro Mandes

Embracing the New Samaria: Opening Our Eyes to Our Multiethnic Future by Alejandro MandesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars For many years now I have been documenting the demographic changes that are happening in the United States, especially among Hispanics (which Mandes documents as well). This has become a political hot topic in our society […]

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Thoughts on “Finding my Way Home” by Henry Nouwen

Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit by Henri J.M. Nouwen Four essays by Nouwen on power, peace, waiting, living and dying. Nouwen was a Catholic Priest, a mystic. He offers a lot of insights into the Christian life. Obviously he writes from his Catholic background and his writings reflect his theology. […]

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Reseña de libro: Alegría por Randy Alcorn

Alegría es un estudio teológico sobre la alegría o felicidad por Randy Alcorn (puede leer sobre su historia y su ministerio aquí en inglés). Alcorn arguye que gozo y alegría son términos e ideas sinónimas. Hace un estudio minucioso teológico usando la Escritura y citas de muchos teólogos del pasado.Personalmente, acepto su tesis sin eliminar […]

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Brief Book review: Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

I have known about Wendell Berry for a while and finally got to listen to one of his books (The book was from Christian audio which offers a free monthly audio book. The narrator of the audio book, Susan Denaker did a great job of keeping my attention). Hannah Coulter begins in a very simple […]

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Review of The Cross and the Switchblade

Here is a short review of The Cross and the Switchblade by my eleven year old daughter. This is the young readers version. This is the story of David Wilkerson sharing the Gospel to gangs in New York City in 1958. God used him greatly and many came to Christ through his evangelistic efforts. A […]

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A review of “A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of the Message

A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of the Message by Winn Collier My rating: 5 of 5 stars I savored this authorized biography of Eugene Peterson. I learned a lot about the man, the pastor and theologian/scholar. Collier does a fair job of getting us to know who […]

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