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Recommend a good book - 2/19/2010 10:47:33 PM
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DeltaPine
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Recommend a good book to read. You must have read it yourself...
I recommend "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" by John Fox,Jr.
This is about love and war and growing up when circumstances are stacked against one's chances for success.
This was a top 10 book in the early 1900s.
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RE: Recommend a good book - 2/19/2010 11:45:12 PM
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One Door Away From Heaven, Dean Koontz
The Immortal, Angie Hunt
The Monkey's Raincoat, Robert Crais
Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, P. J. O'Rourke
The Land of Empty Houses, John L. Moore
That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis
And, well ... mine. 
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RE: Recommend a good book - 2/20/2010 12:04:00 AM
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer - Okay it's a kids book but it is truly a work of art!!
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RE: Recommend a good book - 3/7/2010 4:34:15 PM
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BeyondTheseShores
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Eli by Bill Myers
Thr3e by Ted Dekker
The Oath by Frank Peretti
Wisdom Hunter by Randall Arthur
Vanished by Tom Pawlik
Isolation by Travis Thrasher
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RE: Recommend a good book - 3/9/2010 9:20:49 PM
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Lifestories by Mark Hall
City Of The Dead by T. L. Higley
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RE: Recommend a good book - 3/13/2010 2:05:42 PM
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friend2every1
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No Comprise - Melody Green and David Hazard
The life story of Keith Green.
Speaks for itself. GOOD book.
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To help us through it
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Melt our defenses
Bring us back to our senses
Give us strength to try once more
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RE: Recommend a good book - 3/20/2010 2:11:31 PM
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Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow-The Miller Brothers
Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire- The Miller Brothers
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/9/2010 10:07:55 PM
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I finished reading Josh McDowell's book The Last Christian Generation . Anyone checking the pulse of the American Christian Arena knows that the past 2 generations have not been consistent between what we demand from others and what we do ourselves outside of the church; mainly abandoned the local church in favor of larger churches with more programs and such, judging other people by their political affiliations, being congregational-segregationalists within the christian community, etc. The result is that our children have been watching how we play church, how we put doctrinal differences before the commands to love one another, they hear how it isn't all about money but then they see us live otherwise, etc. No wonder our children have learned not to take the message of the Gospel seriously, and adopt worldly paradigms. We have, as a whole. We do it in what we think is the acceptable manner, backed up by what we think are proof-texts. We have our WWJD version of how to win friends and influence people, the Bible version of the one-minute manager, etc. We keep our children out of the public schools for fear they will get stained by the world.
The generation moving towards adulthood now needs to see Christianity in real life and Josh Mcdowell does a fair enough job defining the problems and the ways to seek God's solution. IMO.
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/10/2010 8:10:47 AM
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
It's subtitled "The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" Relearn the rules of punctuation and laugh like a silly kid while you're at it.
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/23/2010 10:09:42 PM
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River Rising- Athol Dickson
The Novelist- Angela Hunt
Fusion- Integrating Newcomers into the Life of Your Church- Nelson Searcy
Arena- Karen Hancock
The Shadow at Evening- Chris Walley
Waking Lazarus- T.L. Hines
From the Corner of His Eye- Dean Koontz
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/23/2010 10:39:47 PM
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The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/26/2010 7:12:23 AM
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march---geraldine brooks----amazing book! relates to little women.
jamaica inn---daphne du maurier--couldn't put it down!
far from the madding crowd--thomas hardy---Love the scandal and countryside
run baby run---nicky cruz.---christian conversion, powerful story
frankenstein---mary shelley.---I just think it's so so beautiful and deals with nature/nurture.
paradise--abdulrazak gurnah....odd choice, educational, scary, sad. well written very evocative.
othello--william shakespeare..... if you like reading plays.... this makes me cry everytime.
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/26/2010 1:50:42 PM
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steve27a
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Just finished a couple of interesting books. Not really Christian books, but they are about early Christian history. Very long and detailed, kind of scholarly, but have some amazing stuff in them. Both are by John Hagan. One is called "Year of the Passover", and, to summarize 500 pages, in it the year of Christ's crucifixion was determined to be A.D. 36, and the cause of his crucifixion was a summit meeting that was held that Passover between Pilate, Herod Antipas, and a guy called Lucius Vitellius, who at the time was the ranking Roman official in the east. Apparently, it was a hastily arranged meeting, and Caiaphas wanted Jesus out of way so he wouldn't cause any trouble. Very cool stuff that I didn't know before. At the time, the Romans were planning on invading Arabia.
"Fires of Rome" documents the early Christians. This is even more interesting, as the author brings out a whole series of characters who were a part of the Royal court of Nero just before the Christian persecutions. One of them was a former Jerusalem High Priest who years before wanted Paul killed! Paul himself was in Rome at the time and could have easily caused enough trouble to set Nero against him and the rest of the Christians there. So all this stuff is supported by the sources, and I have never heard of most it before. Lots of other cool stuff in "Fires", like how Jerusalem really was laid out in those times, and several chapters on the Jewish revolt and the destruction of Jerusalem.
So I think I understand now the history of Christianity much better, and wonder why this stuff isn't more "out there?"
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/28/2010 3:22:55 PM
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Auben
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I have to agree with Rowenah. Those are all good books (although I haven't read Gogol in so many years I don't know if I can safely recommend it anymore  ).
I'd add:
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Brothers K or The River Why by David James Duncan
Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik (light fiction)
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (science fiction)
Bruchko by Bruce Olsen (missionary bio)
The Good Earth (fiction) or My Several Worlds (nonfiction) by Pearl S Buck
Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/28/2010 8:30:16 PM
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A TERRACE ON THE TOWER OF BABEL - Great contemporary novel. Modern/historical/literary fiction. Provocative and compelling. A few of the characters are strong Christians. Unblinking look at the world today. On line at Amazon.com http://bit.ly/amzntower
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/29/2010 3:38:28 PM
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tomaslerma
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i've only read '90 minutes in heaven' in the past few years, but i want to get into reading more often.. thanks for the post. oh, and 90 mins is a good book that digs deep into a mans near death experience and his struggles afterward.
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RE: Recommend a good book - 4/30/2010 5:29:16 PM
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jaimestarcross
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I would recommend these:
Listen - By: Rene Gutteridge
Excerpt: Nothing ever happens in the small town of Marlo . . . until the residents begin seeing their private conversations posted online for everyone to read. Then it's neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, as paranoia and violence escalate. The police scramble to identify the person responsible for the posts and pull the plug on the Website before it destroys the town. But what responsibility do the people of the town have for the words they say when they think no one is listening? Life and death are in the power of the tongue.
Rooms - by James L. Rubart
Excerpt: On a rainy spring day in Seattle, young software tycoon Micah Taylor receives a cryptic, twenty-five-year-old letter from a great uncle he never knew. It claims a home awaits him on the Oregon coast that will turn his world inside out. Suspecting a prank, Micah arrives at Cannon Beach to discover a stunning brand new nine-thousand square foot house. And after meeting Sarah Sabin at a nearby ice cream shop, he has two reasons to visit the beach every weekend.
When bizarre things start happening in the rooms of the home, Micah suspects they have some connection to his enigmatic new friend, Rick, the town mechanic. But Rick will only say the house is spiritual. This unnerves Micah because his faith slipped away like the tide years ago, and he wants to keep it that way. But as he slowly discovers, the home isn’t just spiritual, it’s a physical manifestation of his soul, which God uses to heal Micah’s darkest wounds and lead him into an astonishing new destiny.
and for a chuckle... read -
Wonders Never Cease by Tim Downs
Excerpt: When a car accident leaves a famous movie star in a coma, nurse Kemp---a medical school dropout---devises an evil plan. Manipulating her medication, he pretends to be an angel giving her messages---then dictates a "spiritual bestseller" he believes will make them both rich. But what will he do if real angels show up?
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