Mini Book Review #11: Give Me This Mountain, by Helen Roseveare. Dr. Helen Roseveare, missionary doctor to the Congo, wrote this memoir with great humility and a sense of humor. She often tells stories that present her at her worst, and it’s precisely this honesty that makes her story so powerful. So many times I could see myself as she…
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Review: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled
Mini Book Review #10: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, by Wendy Pearlman. We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria is a key book to read if you want to understand the Syrian Civil War beyond the news flashes and painful photographs. This is the story of the Syrian revolution, in the words…
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Becoming Elisabeth Elliot Mini Book Review
Mini Book Review #9: Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, by Ellen Vaughn. A new favorite in my growing collection of biographies. Becoming Elisabeth Elliot presents a much more rounded view of Elisabeth’s early years than we have ever glimpsed—we see her insecurities, the difficulties with others that she covered over rather than gossip about, and her steady, determined drive to “do the…
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Boundaries Book Review
MINI BOOK REVIEW #8: Boundaries, By Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend. My short-and-sweet summary of the book everyone seems to be talking about these days! Boundaries is one of those books that I have seen mentioned and recommended by numerous acquaintances and a few close friends. After becoming a friend’s accountability partner after she read the book, I decided…
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My Hope is Not in Essential Oils
My hope is not in essential oils…or Tylenol. My hope is in Christ. We live in an age of quick fixes. Your head hurts? Turn to one person, and he’ll tell you to pop two Tylenol tablets. Turn to another, and she’ll give you the perfect essential oils to rub on yourself and drop into your diffuser. A third person…
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