You Can Be Everything God Wants You To Be

I just got a copy of Max Lucado’s book “You Can Be Everything God Wants You To Be” What a great book, I see it used a lot for young adults those that are just heading out into life after high school. Like so many of Max’s books you always come away with feeling great and understanding that God does in fact love you. After I get these books from Thomas Nelson I like to give them out to friends and family. I for the most part get them back after they make the rounds but the last two Max Lucado’s I got I have never gotten back. I know where they are it just they are being read and used. That is the beauty behind his books.
I really liked the part in the book when Max said: “Magnify your Maker”. It made me stop and think what is magnifying mean and what is he telling me here. Webster tells me that it is “to increase in significance”. I need to understand that god made me who I am and there is no one else like me on this earth. God as a mission for me, a work that I need to do and it is up to me to find that work and once I do I need to hit the ground running.
I really suggest if you are reading this review thinking about buy this book I say get it, read it and understand what Max is telling you. God can make you be who you want to be and if you want to be like god then this book will help you find that.
Thanks to Thomas Nelson book review program for me free copy of this great book.

The Map by David Murrow

I questioned this book at first thinking is this going to be a fiction type book or is there some truth to the book. Well I got a little bit of both. David Murrow new book titled The Map is a book that is twofold. First is start with a thrilling fiction type story, some of it seemed a little out there but you have to remember is fiction. The second part of the book gets into the depth of the The Maps that is found within the book of Mathew.
I found this book to be very interesting I have read the bible many times but know when I go back a read Mathew again I will read it a little bit different this time and really understand what Christ was try to teach. I like that there is three journeys a man must go through (please pick up a copy of the book to find out those three journeys) I never really thought of it that way.
If you are thinking about buying this book and you are reading this review I say go for it and read it and really have an opened mind as you do so. This book it great and I am going to go and get his other books and read them. Thanks to Thomas nelson Book review for my advance copy of this book.

A Century Turns

I never really stop to think about how much this country has changed in the last twenty years. The era that Mr. Bennett starts I was just starting me teen years, never really gave any though to what was going on here in the USA let alone the world. I remember some of the things he talks about but some I do not remember. This book is a great tool that I can use to teach me kids what went on in American when I was growing up.
I have read the books America the Last Best hope by the same author and this book is the end piece to those books.
I have always really enjoyed William Bennett’s books, and really love his history books and how he makes them come alive.
A Century Turns is a must have for any history buff like myself or just those that want to know what has happened to this country in the last twenty years. This book needs to be study by are young people and know that we have changed dramatically in the last twenty years.
I am grateful that I was give a copy of this book by Thomas Nelson publishing and say to all who read this review to get a copy of your own and really come to understand this book and the history it teaches.

This your Brain in love

I am sometime a little worried to read self-help book, mainly when they written by a Doctor! Doctor like the use the big words and write them in their books. A lot of times you are spending more time looking up the word then reading the book. But with Dr Earl Henslin new book This Is Your Brain In Love, Dr Henslin, did not need to use the big words here. He made the book simple and easy to understand.
I really like this book it opened my eyes. Many people would say when buying this book or having this book on their self: “I don’t need this book, It is not for me or it is for a friend. I can see that some people would be ashamed to have this book, but the message in this book is one that everyone need, whether you have a strong loving marriage like Anne and David did in the book or if you marriage is at the breaking point. There is a message for all in this book.

Dr Henslin talks about five “lover types they are
1. The Scattered Lover
2. The Overfocused Lover
3. The Blue Mood Lover
4. The Agitated Lover
5. The Anxious Lover

He breaks down each of these lover types in chapters and it is very interesting to see where you find yourself and your spouse. This book is a must read and again it is for all marriages there is something we all need to learn, and marriages is something that we learn from each and ever day.

Thank to Thomas Nelson Book review for my free copy of the book

Sweet By and BY

It has been said many time that it is better to leave thing that you have done in your life in the past. In Sara Evan new book titles The Sweet by and by Jade and her soon to be husband felt that is what would work best for them, they would start the lives together not know much about each other part. But as the story unfolds we find that the skeletons that lay in you closet can never be left there forever. Slowly they start to come out for Jade and take her on an emotional roller coaster only to find out that the struggles that she goes through only make Jade a better person in the end. We come to find out that the past is who we are and we should not be ashamed to live up to it.

The book we me started out a little slow, but then towards the middle it began to pick up and lay out the story of Jade and her past. I really felt that Sara Evans did a wonderful job, and look forward to the next book in this series.

This book was give to my by the Thomas Nelson book Reviewer. The comments made here are my own. I was not paid to review this book. Please visit brb.thomasnelson.com to find out more.

Where is God, is not a question but rather a protest

Where is God is not a question, rather it is a protest.” Is a statement from Dr John Townsends new book titled “Where is God” First let me say that even the cover has you looking for “God” The title is the same color and the background and has you searching for it. Just like many off us today we are searching for God and wanting to know if in fact he is there.
But Dr. Townsend helps to illustrate the point that God is in fact there. We are the ones that are standing the way of allowing God to enter our lives. The World is going to hell in a hand basket and we can only stop and ask “Where are you God, way have you left” But God in fact as not left, he is there waiting for us to call upon Him.

Dr Townsend tells a story of a lady that was pushing her husband to communicate with her, she was terrible upset with the fact that she was not getting what she wanted and was at breaking point. But Dr Townsend put it best when he stated that God does not push us to communicate with him, he lets us know that he is there and waits for us to come unto Him.
At this point in time when there has been so much sadness in the world a book like this is just want is needed. This book should be bought and read and reread and come to truly understand that the question of “where is God,” is not the questions we need to ask, the question we need to ask is found in this wonderful book.

Thanks to Thomas Nelson for my Free advance copy of this book.

NKLV Greatest Stories of the Bible

Thomas Nelson’s NKJV Greatest Stories of the Bible is a must have in every home. In the introduction of the book it states: “Designed as a treasury of the most well-loved and impactful stories from the bible.” Is goes on to say “this is not a bible….this heirloom edition uses scripture portions from the NKJV to tell the story of God and His interaction with humankind.”

This book is very well done. The cover give you the old worn family bible look and the it reads like a novel and not the way normal scriptures verses are writing. I have read the King James Version of the bible my whole life this is the first I have read a New King James Version and the way this is done helps me to understand the bible better then I have before. I love this version and it will make a great family gift to all of my brothers and sisters this year for Christmas.

Thanks Thomas Nelson for an advance copies of this great book. Please visit www.thomasnelson.com for more.