Category: Books

  • Book Review: The Noticer

    The Noticer by Andy Andrews He appears when least expected but most needed.  Usually dressed in blue jeans, sandals, and an old t-shirt, the white-haired sage is a mystery to the small Orange Beach, AL community.  The most anyone really knows about him is his name.  “My name is Jones.  No ‘Mr.’  Just plain Jones,”…

  • Reading the Old Testament

    I mentioned yesterday that I spent all day Saturday nursing myself back to health.  I took my vitamins and drank enough water to drown a herd of elephants. My favorite sick-time activities are watching movies and sleeping.  The television offered me nothing worth watching.  Yes, the Olympics were on, but after 12 days of it…

  • A fast for the LORD

    The weekend didn’t turn out anything like I had planned, but everything happened just like it was supposed to happen.

  • The challenge to love in deed

    Hall and Moore were plugging a new book, What Difference Do It Make? (WDDIM). The new book covers what their lives have been like since the success of SKODAM. Their stories made me laugh. More than anything else, though, I marveled over how two very different men could become such close friends. I decided I…

  • Sojourner Truth

    Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me — and ar’n’t I a woman?