Mondays are mondays...

ºMondays with my old pastorº, by José Luis Navajo is... let's say... a good book.

However, I don't know if it was a little hard to read because of the day of the theme (mondays are mondays... boring... really boring...) or because of the writing style or because of the fact that, even though the author says he's been in the ministry for a lot of years, he seems to be some kind of 'rookie' because a lot of the wisdom written in the book is like 'Ministry Frustration 101' (or at least in my experience and those really close to us in the ministry has been that way).
For me, the book was really like a compilation of mondays: Sometimes... hard to continue with the reading; sometimes... less hard to get through the pages and sometimes; and sometimes... dangerously close to the give-up-button.
I guess I'm trying to be nice, but this book really wasn't up to expectations.
Sorry.

Little might be the new Great

"The little red book of wisdom" by Mark Demoss has been a delicious glass of fresh water in the middle of a 'wisdom desert' for me.

I work in advertising and, too often, find myself surrounded by anything but wisdom.

I thought this would be another 'illuminated but not understandable' kind of book but the way Mark Demoss share his business wisdom and then his life wisdom, both constructed with the Bible as the base, is powerfully simple.

And, since I have been a lot of my life in touch with people that talk a lot but say nothing at all, I really appreciate a simple truth told in a simple way.

I think that Mark Demoss book is the perfect example of one of the most amazing truths written in it: 'Under promise and over deliver'.

The little red book of wisdom is red indeed, its full of wisdom but its not little (as under promised), but simply great.

And that is how you over deliver something!

Called to Controversy, Ruth Rosen

Before reading this book I didn't know anything about Moishe Rosen and after reading it, I know just a few things: First, he was controversial for Jesus and willing to live up to his calling. Second, he wasn't 'perfect' (at least, not our common idea of perfection). And last, we should imitate his faith, as Hebrews 13:7 says.
In a country like mine (Guatemala, Central America) we christians don't know a lot of jewish people but we know a lot about religion and religious behavior. Even I have some bitter encounter with the 'status quo' that have been anything but pretty.
For me, the life of Moishe Rosen, his work for Jesus and his legacy in his family is an example of faith in the practice, because any christian should understand that he or she is called to controversy when called by Jesus to testify about Him in a world (the personal world) that doesn't want to know a thing about the King of kings.
The reading is good, but it feels long so, get yourself a 'patience tea' and stick to it because it's a good book.
I want to end this little comment with a great and powerful phrase from Moishe Rosen: "Don't let your friends happen to you; don't let life happen to you; don't let things happen to you. Make the kind of friends and the kind of life that you believe you ought to have" (emphasis added).
If you know that you have been called to 'greater things', then fight for that life, have the courage to look for it and found it in Jesus Christ.