Category: Book Reviews

  • Book Review: Choosing Gratitude

    Choosing gratitude has not always been an easy choice for DeMoss; she shares her struggle with obedience in this area, how she sought accountability, and the things she does to help her maintain an attitude of gratitude to God in all circumstances. I loved reading how God worked in her life and how, when it…

  • Book Review: The Magician’s Elephant

    “Could it be?” said Leo. “Yes,” said Peter. He did not look up at the ceiling. He kept his eyes on Leo Matienne. “What if?” he said to the policeman. “Why not?” said Leo back to him. He smiled. “Enough,” said Gloria. “No,” said Leo Matienne, “not enough. Never enough. We must ask ourselves these…

  • Book Review: Parables of the Christ-life

    by I. Lilias Trotter Isabella Lilias Trotter was born in 1853 to a wealthy London family.  Born with an uncommon talent for sketching and painting, Lilias forsook fame and renown in order to serve the Lord Jesus as a missionary to Muslim women in Algeria for 38 years.  She founded the Algiers Mission Band, which…

  • Book Review: Refuge

    Refuge A True Story of Faith and Civil War by John & Bessie Gonleh with Bruce Beakley In 1989, John and Bessie Gonleh found themselves living in the midst of a civil war in Liberia.  They lived in Paynesville, a place that resembled suburban life in a small American town.  They assumed that the war…

  • Book Review: FlashForward

    Flashforward by Robert Sawyer Flashforward, a novel by Canadian sci-fi author Robert Sawyer, no doubt made more popular by the ABC series by the same name, is the story of a handful of CERN scientists who are experimenting to prove the existence of the Higgs boson particle.  One moment, Lloyd Simcoe and his associates are…