Max on Life - Max Lucado

Max Lucado, oh how I love your writings.  This is not my first Max Lucado book, and it won't be my last.  This book answers some questions that were sent into Max Lucado about life, and how we should live it.  It is divided into sections like Hope, Help, Home, Him/Her.  Each section has a question, and a Biblically supported answer.  As I was reading, I found myself underlining both Bible passages and commentary that I wanted to be able to refer back to.  This book is a great read through, though it does take time to go through the book.  And, in case you want to look up something in particular, there is a topical index in the back.  Max Lucado even put in a section on writing and how that all works.

I would highly recommend this book.  I'm sure I will find myself going back to this book again and again as life changes and we need to refocus on the Lord.  I received this book through the publisher's BookSneeze program for an honest review.

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The Final Summit

I received this E-book from BookSneeze to read and post my honest opinion.  Well...I love this book.  Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down.  

David Ponder is visited by the Archangel Gabriel and goes to a summit of some of the great minds from history.  He meets with Winston Churchill, Abe Lincoln, King David, Joan of Arc, and others to decide what it is that the world must do so that it can continue to go on.  Each chapter involves a discussion and advice for what the people individually and as a whole need to do to show that they haven't lost sight of what they should be doing here on Earth.  Each answer builds upon the last and leads up to the ultimate answer which you will have to read the book to find out.

This is the first novel I have read by Andy Andrews, and I'm hooked.  I had the opportunity to see him live at Women of Faith and have read his book The Boy Who Changed the World  he is a wonderful comedian and writer.  I can't wait to read another of his books.  Oh, and I'm going back to read the first book in this series, The Traveler's Gift.  

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While the World Watched

So, I thought I knew a lot about the Civil Rights Movement, I mean I learned about it in school in the 1970's and 1980's, right.  Well, I now know there was a lot I didn't know.  But that's not all this book is about.  Carolyn Maull McKinstry gives us a look into her life, a life filled with death, fear, inequality, but most importantly God.  At the age of 14, she lost her 4 closest friends in a Klan bombing at the Sixteenth Street Church, her church, in Birmingham, AL.  Her life was spared by minutes.  But her loss, her anger and her fear would last a long time.  She marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.  But the loss of those 4 friends would haunt her for a long time.

This wonderfully written book leads you through Carolyn Maull McKinstry's life as she comes to terms with the loss and her hatred and comes to forgiveness through the Lord.  Her road was not smooth or quick, but it led her to where she was meant to be.  I received this book to review while I was going through a Sunday School class on forgiveness and how when we forgive others as God forgave us, we are in his grace.  I really loved this book, I had a difficult time putting it down.  I would recommend this to anyone whether or not they have an interest in the history of our Civil Rights Movement.

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