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    Book Review: Built to Last – Collins/Porras

    Get your copy here: https://amzn.to/4mTtRJJ A friend recently recommended Jim Collin’s book, “Built to Last”.  Some of the findings of Collins and Porras are counter-intuitive, but undeniable. From a Christian perspective, not every principle follows exactly, but many of them I believe do have a correlation in church organization and leadership.  The book identifies several

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    Book Review: Unsettled, by Steven Koonin

    Get your copy here – https://amzn.to/4temgHO What stood out to me about Koonin’s book was what it revealed about worldviews and agendas more than the specific data. However, a great deal of information is provided to back up everything the author deals with. First, something about the book. Steven Koonin, who formerly worked as a

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    KJV Sword Bible

    A few months ago a friend shared a link to the KJV Sword Bible – https://www.thekjvstore.com/kjv-sword-bible-large-print/ The website describes the Sword Bible as: The KJV Sword Bible offers a Bible-reading experience made even more enjoyable and enriching with an updated page design for increased readability, difficult terms underlined and defined at the ends of verses, the words

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    Book Review: The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time

    A paperback version of this book is available here: https://amzn.to/4qEVln1 This book review will be a little different as I want to say more about the author than I normally would. The Author – Thomas Cooper (1805-1892) Cooper was a 19th-century English writer, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He was born in Leicester, England. Cooper had

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    Book Review: George Whitefield the Evangelist

    Sometimes a great author writes on a subject that doesn’t interest me. But the author covers the uninteresting subject well. Sometimes a poor author writes of a great subject. On a rare occasion, a great author writes about an outstanding subject. This was one of those occasions. John Pollock is an outstanding author. I’ve read

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    Book Review: “Just Friends”

    Book Review: Just Friends by Mike Ray and Cary SchmidtJust Friends by Mike Ray and Cary Schmidt is a thoughtful, Scripture-saturated treatment of dating that I can almost wholeheartedly recommend. Though the book is becoming increasingly difficult to find, its core message remains helpful and needed. This is especially true considering how confused our culture

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    Book Review: His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine

    Get your copy here: https://amzn.to/4fQz7Kg Gwynne is an excellent author and his research into the subject of this book was extensive. I found the jumping around between the story of the R101 and then to the various characters jarring. I’m sure that’s just a personal preference. The book goes from talking about the R101 airship,

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    Book Review: Free to Focus

    https://amzn.to/3ZEWLTt I have made plenty of productivity mistakes over the years. I’ve found a solution to some problems, but there’s always room for improvement. This book helped in numerous ways but also verified a few truths I’ve discovered the hard way. I wish I had read this 20 years ago. It is not just for

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    Book Review: A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards

    https://amzn.to/4ncDhPU Though I differ with Edwards in his Calvinism, I have great respect and admiration for him. Few can follow in his footsteps intellectually. He was a brilliant man in not just theology, but in every area science he turned his mind to. Intellectually and spiritually, he lived in exciting and changing times. Along with

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    Book Review: Running to Win: The Story of Eric Liddell

    https://amzn.to/3HRPauA Eri Liddell was a world class athlete. Apart from the physical exertions of competing, he could have had a comfortable and acclaimed life. Eric Liddell was a much loved preacher and public speaker. He could have toured the UK and the world speaking in comfortable church and auditoriums. He could have been well-sed of

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