Resurrection year, by Sheridan Voysey

Being in the same situation than the marriage of the book (9 years for us) it was a little tired for me to read the book because... well... there are a few days in this kind of trial that you just don't want to remember.
The one thing that I'm really thankful for is that it doesn't end in a 'happy miracle' because, let's be honest, there are a big lot of christian marriages out there that didn't have their 'miracle' and had to learn to live life and enjoy it and be thankful for the life that they received even if it doesn't have a baby in it.
So, I don't know if I can recommend this book or not so I will go with the safest recommendation: Read it at your own risk.
Sheridan, thank you very very much for the honesty. People that doesn't have to live what we have had to live can't understand the frustration, anger and confusion that a christian has to endure in this kind of trials.
Best of love and blessings for your marriage!

Simply God, by Rick Richards

I suppose this is a book full of good thoughts but I can't be sure because, well... I tried to read it but I just couldn't take the personal writing style.
I mean, I don't like at all when a writer uses a lot of corny phrases and 'pop' ideas and stick them to God. The little that I managed to read felt like a 'new age' book or something like that.
I have nothing more to say. Sorry.

What a war!

"Gods at war" by Kyle Idleman is a power book!

You may think that idolatry is an ancient problem or a "old testament sin". You can be sure that you are not an idolater (like I was sure about myself) but you WILL discover that a lot of gods have take foothold in your heart.

I strongly recommend pastors and teachers to read this book and then share it with their congregations.

The author gives you weapons to discover the false gods in your heart by asking the right questions. Also, he gives you a great advice: False gods must be replaced with the real God or they will be replace with another false god.

Pleasure, power, money, love, family... The gods are gods because we turn them into gods and we give them the power to rule over our lives.

And the final word from God is clear: Choose! Your gods or Me!

This book will hurt you. It will confront you. But it will set you in the right path toward the real God.

It took me 4 weeks to read it but not because it was a bad book, not at all, but because we had to make a sermon series about this at church. It is THAT good!

A Theography... indeed

In 'Jesus, a Theography', by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola, we can see the life of Jesus in a whole new way: From God's word's perspective.
The reading took me a very long time but not because the book was bad but because there were so much to take in from its pages.
I think that every christian should read this book in order to get close with facts about the Lord that we seldom forget. For example, thanks to Sweet and Viola's work, we can see the great importance of the answer that Jesus gave when asked for 'whom is my neighbor', or the great and dangerous thing that Jesus did when he spoke in public with a samaritan woman.
Bottom line, this book is excellent but take your time to read it and meditate every single thing that you find inside of it.

The zombie within

"Christian Zombie Killers Handbook" by Jeff Kinley is about the 'New Nature / Old Nature' theme and dilemma in every Jesus follower and being a 'Walking Dead' TV Show fan myself, this little book got my attention right away.


THE DON'T LIKES
I like 'The Walking Dead' TV Show but not because of the zombies (I get really scared with scary movies) but because of the human drama that's envolved in every chapter of the series.
I like to watch those zombies but don't like to read zombie stories, so I didn't like the parts of the book where Kinley tells a story (divided in 'episodes') so I ended up not reading that. Sorry.


THE LIKES
The inner war within a christian is a real issue and there are a lot of books about it. Deep book. Light books. Good and bad ones. Long and short ones. In short: A lot of books.
The theme is not new at all but the way Kinley approach to it, is.
I think that, for the modern reader, there's hardly a better way to describe this battle and perpetual conflict that with a 'zombie within'!
Why?
Do I really have to explain why?
Ok. This is why: The 'old you', the 'dead you' is you, but without really ugly, evil, depraved and bad. That 'you' doesn't want anything to do with Christ. He hates God. He just wants to have some brains for lunch for the sake of eating brains for lunch because... well... a zombie can't die from hunger, right?
The 'zombie you' is dead but still wanting to kill every sign of life that crosses his way.
The 'zombie me' get along with other zombies but hate live people.
The 'zombie us' must be resisted and, ultimately, must be really really put to death.
And that's why I really like the way Kinley approach the book.

We christians tend to forget how really bad we are and how much we need the grace, the wisdom and the light of Jesus in everyday's life, so this is a good book that can help us to take a look (a real one) to the zombies that we're still carrying within and cry to Jesus for help, sanctity, power and life at each moment of our lives.