Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher, Walter Brook Press, but I am giving an honest open review of the book from a young straight Christian female persepctive.
The chapters are about a mother, Angela, and her gay son, Christopher. The first chapter belongs to the mother. The second chapter is from the son's perspective. And they continue to alternate thoughout the book.
Christopher's view describes his life growing up and going through school, entering the gay lifestyle, partying and becoming a drug dealer. When he tells his mother that he is gay, she throws him out with the choice: choose being gay or choose your family. He crashes on his drugs and gets arrested. This is where his mother's prayers help lead him to Christ. Eventually, he works through his issues and becomes a Christian minister. He figures the opposite of homosexuality is holiness and he strives to lead a holy life for God.
When I picked up this book, I thought it might be too preachy or might not be kind towards gays. My hope was that the boy might find God and find a godly acceptance of his lifestyle, but I should have known better. Of course, a Christian book has to make the gay lifestyle unacceptable. I guess I should have expected this. I think most Christians will enjoy this book. This book did handle the issue pretty well and better than I worried it might, so I would recommend people read this book. I think it will give some hope and won't discourage others too much.
Skip It: The Seraph Seal by Leonard Sweet and Lori Wagner
Disclaimer: Received this book free from the publisher but giving honest review.
This is a fun Christian end times book. It is a fun read if you like end times and fiction and have the spare time. But most people won't enjoy this book. It gets really cheesy, preachy, fake and phoney... just like you would expect from a "Christian" fictional movie.
Problems with this book:
- Bird that recites paragraph-long Bible poems (not even scripture!)
- The only 8 people born on Dec 21, 2012 all have a detailed "tattoo-shaped" "birthmark" but it is so detailed like a tatto that it could never be a birthmark
- One character gets "saved" and his salvation is SOOOO cheesy, you will die: he's thinking to himself logically, then suddenly stands up and says "I need to be baptised!" AFTER being an unbeliever all his life and having no real revelation or conversion experience
- The US president is the only man in the world with a holograph body that can run around the world beaming from one place to another like in Star Trek
- The main authors' story moves slowly through the book. Like maybe 1 week has passed for them. But months have passed for all the other characters. The time lines don't match up at all! P
- Character meets with the president of the USA to tell him the BIG NEWS... "the world looks like it is coming to an end. I can't tell you how I know this, but I just know it." The president asks him what he would suggest the president do. "I don't know. But I thought you should know this." HAHAHA... STUUUUPID.... Like the president would meet with anyone like that.
- Characters decypher the hidden code... using gemetra... PUH-LEASE!!!! PREDICTABLE...
- Evil president's angry emotions draw thousands of ravens to all land on the White House roof. CHEESY
- The sun is heating up the earth with solar flares, so the people start making suits.... coated with gold and silver so that the suits will deflect the sun's radiation... RIGHT. CHEESY and FAKE!
- Earth's magnetic poles really are reversing in the book!
- One character in the book is a 12 year old boy that is a genius, so they let him into college early. But wait... another character "discovers" the boy is really 36 years old! Why does he think the boy is 36? Because the boy is smart!!!!!!!! DUMB!!! But the boy always tells everyone that he is only 12. But when asked his birthdate, the boy says Dec 12, 2012, which would make him 36, because the book is set in 2048. So what kind of "smart" boy would think he is 12, when he knows he was born in 2012? haha... CHEESY...
The authors took Bible passages and plugged them into the pages of a story:
- 7 seals on a scroll
- Sea life just suddenly disappears and no scientists can find out how it all "vanished" CHEESY
- The sea water turns black.... OOOH... REALLY? CHEESE
- Character sees 4 GIANT horses (bigger than any real horses) - the 4 horsemen of the apocolypse?
This is a fun Christian end times book. It is a fun read if you like end times and fiction and have the spare time. But most people won't enjoy this book. It gets really cheesy, preachy, fake and phoney... just like you would expect from a "Christian" fictional movie.
Problems with this book:
- Bird that recites paragraph-long Bible poems (not even scripture!)
- The only 8 people born on Dec 21, 2012 all have a detailed "tattoo-shaped" "birthmark" but it is so detailed like a tatto that it could never be a birthmark
- One character gets "saved" and his salvation is SOOOO cheesy, you will die: he's thinking to himself logically, then suddenly stands up and says "I need to be baptised!" AFTER being an unbeliever all his life and having no real revelation or conversion experience
- The US president is the only man in the world with a holograph body that can run around the world beaming from one place to another like in Star Trek
- The main authors' story moves slowly through the book. Like maybe 1 week has passed for them. But months have passed for all the other characters. The time lines don't match up at all! P
- Character meets with the president of the USA to tell him the BIG NEWS... "the world looks like it is coming to an end. I can't tell you how I know this, but I just know it." The president asks him what he would suggest the president do. "I don't know. But I thought you should know this." HAHAHA... STUUUUPID.... Like the president would meet with anyone like that.
- Characters decypher the hidden code... using gemetra... PUH-LEASE!!!! PREDICTABLE...
- Evil president's angry emotions draw thousands of ravens to all land on the White House roof. CHEESY
- The sun is heating up the earth with solar flares, so the people start making suits.... coated with gold and silver so that the suits will deflect the sun's radiation... RIGHT. CHEESY and FAKE!
- Earth's magnetic poles really are reversing in the book!
- One character in the book is a 12 year old boy that is a genius, so they let him into college early. But wait... another character "discovers" the boy is really 36 years old! Why does he think the boy is 36? Because the boy is smart!!!!!!!! DUMB!!! But the boy always tells everyone that he is only 12. But when asked his birthdate, the boy says Dec 12, 2012, which would make him 36, because the book is set in 2048. So what kind of "smart" boy would think he is 12, when he knows he was born in 2012? haha... CHEESY...
The authors took Bible passages and plugged them into the pages of a story:
- 7 seals on a scroll
- Sea life just suddenly disappears and no scientists can find out how it all "vanished" CHEESY
- The sea water turns black.... OOOH... REALLY? CHEESE
- Character sees 4 GIANT horses (bigger than any real horses) - the 4 horsemen of the apocolypse?
The Book That Made Your World (SKIP IT)
I hated this book. I hated it so much! It was a complete let down and so so painful and boring to read! The Intro was so boring! Then the first chapter was death! It starts off talking about the importance of having a spiritual life. The idea is that if you don't have a spiritual life, your life will have no meaning. It uses Kurt Cobain lead singer of US grunge rock band as an example of what you may become if you have no spiritual life - a guy who blows his brains out with a shotgun. So you go, well, that's not me or anyone I know, but okay.... And you try to keep reading. But the book turns really stupid! It goes into music appreciation - how God created the world with music built into the creation mathematically. Okay. But all the paragraphs are disjointed. The author is clearly obsessed and in love with Kurt Cobain because he is brought up again and again and again to the point this is ridiculous! I thought this was supposed to be a REAL book. An intelligent book? This is not supposed to be a Kurt Cobain fan book! Oh... and for those who didn't know.... per Wikipedia, this guy was so "different" from others that he demanded/insisted on using a naked baby boy with a long penis as the cover of his CD. And the back? Wikipedia says he took pictures of DISEASED vaginas (from his private medical collection? WTF?) and put them on the back cover. SICK. Is it any surprise he blew his brains out? You have to have a pretty weird mind to get off on such images.
Disclaimer: Received book free from Book Sneeze. Gave honest review.
Disclaimer: Received book free from Book Sneeze. Gave honest review.
Book: No He Can't: How Barack Obama Is Dismantling Hope And Change (SKIP IT)
Disclaimer: I received this book for free from Book Sneeze but I promise to review it honestly and critically.
5 HIGHEST - 1 LOWEST STARS: 2 Stars
READ IT OR SKIP IT? SKIP IT
WHO MIGHT LIKE/HATE THIS BOOK? I think anyone who LOVES politics and HATES Obama will enjoy this book. Anyone who isn't strongly opinionated one way or the other probably will not enjoy this book. If you're not THAT into politics, skip this book. You have got to really be into politics or strongly dislike Obama to enjoy this book.
BOOK REVIEW:
I am a little into politics and I am very unhappy with the Obama's administration, but still I did not enjoy this book. It was long and drawn out. Way too much fluff. Pretty much, the book is about the ways Obama failed: how he failed our economy, our values, and our freedoms. It also portrays this smiling, charasmatic man as having a very different side from that seen in the media: a dangerous side, easily selling his soul and to get to the top. A man with a very direct political agenda that was hidden from voters prior to the 2008 presidential election. A man who easily makes promises sky high, then just as easily and carelessly breaks every single one of them. A man who's many many lies easily roll off his tongue while smiling and nodding. But then, if you are not fond of Obama, you may already know all this about the man. So reading this book will tell you nothing very new. If you love Obama, you may just dismiss the author as being anti-Obama and continue worshipping the president.
This book covers many media stories and a few of which you may not have heard. It covers Obama's promise not to raise taxes and his promise to lower taxes for 95% and also how he effectively will crush America with taxes (something I didn't know). How Obama ends up squashing the the poor and making them even poorer through his policies. How Obamacare destroys the economy and small businesses. How Obama lied about how he increased jobs but the unemployment rate is the highest it's ever been. Pretty much, this book is a fair truthful assessment of Obama's presidency (with a lead towards showing a bit too much love for the Republicans). The book tells a good story and has good facts, it's just too long and drawn out and feels too scattered. I'm sure there are other books critical of Obama that do a better job of getting to the point.
5 HIGHEST - 1 LOWEST STARS: 2 Stars
READ IT OR SKIP IT? SKIP IT
WHO MIGHT LIKE/HATE THIS BOOK? I think anyone who LOVES politics and HATES Obama will enjoy this book. Anyone who isn't strongly opinionated one way or the other probably will not enjoy this book. If you're not THAT into politics, skip this book. You have got to really be into politics or strongly dislike Obama to enjoy this book.
BOOK REVIEW:
I am a little into politics and I am very unhappy with the Obama's administration, but still I did not enjoy this book. It was long and drawn out. Way too much fluff. Pretty much, the book is about the ways Obama failed: how he failed our economy, our values, and our freedoms. It also portrays this smiling, charasmatic man as having a very different side from that seen in the media: a dangerous side, easily selling his soul and to get to the top. A man with a very direct political agenda that was hidden from voters prior to the 2008 presidential election. A man who easily makes promises sky high, then just as easily and carelessly breaks every single one of them. A man who's many many lies easily roll off his tongue while smiling and nodding. But then, if you are not fond of Obama, you may already know all this about the man. So reading this book will tell you nothing very new. If you love Obama, you may just dismiss the author as being anti-Obama and continue worshipping the president.
This book covers many media stories and a few of which you may not have heard. It covers Obama's promise not to raise taxes and his promise to lower taxes for 95% and also how he effectively will crush America with taxes (something I didn't know). How Obama ends up squashing the the poor and making them even poorer through his policies. How Obamacare destroys the economy and small businesses. How Obama lied about how he increased jobs but the unemployment rate is the highest it's ever been. Pretty much, this book is a fair truthful assessment of Obama's presidency (with a lead towards showing a bit too much love for the Republicans). The book tells a good story and has good facts, it's just too long and drawn out and feels too scattered. I'm sure there are other books critical of Obama that do a better job of getting to the point.
Book: Lived Loved by Max Lucado (SKIP)
Product Details
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 3, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1404190066
- ISBN-13: 978-1404190061
- Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.6 x 0.9 inches
READ IT OR SKIP IT? SKIP IT
WHO MIGHT LIKE THIS BOOK? Christians who want to feel good about life and their own religion. Christians who want hope. Women and girls who enjoy devotionals.
WHO MIGHT HATE THIS BOOK? Non-Christians. Impatient readers. Intellectuals who want substance and real answers to the toughest questions and won't settle for "feel good" answers.
AUTHOR: Popular Christian Author Max Lucado. He has written many many books from the Calvinist Christian perspective.
SUMMARY: A daily devotional addressing aspects of God's person and reminding us that God is love and always with us.
QUICK BOOK REVIEW: I found this book meets the expectations of most devotionals - quick feel good answers that don't actually make you feel all that good. They might make you smile a little right after you read them, but half a day later, you've already forgotten them all. This book covers mostly topics relating to who God is (never changing, always truthful, someone you can trust, ) and why you should have hope (don't give up, hold on just a little longer, always be giving just a little more than everyone else, don't worry). After reading this book, I was still left feeling a distance between me and God. The God the book describes isn't the God that most of us know (if we are being truly honest with ourselves). Can we trust God? For what? Not to save us from giving us "too much to bear" and not to save us from calamities (cancer, death of loved ones, natural disasters, car accidents)... The book doesn't address serious answers to serious questions. It's a feel good read that only momentarily satisfies and it weakly satisfies even then. Almost all answers are only half a page long - one paragraph.
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