This book teaches about Godly love from the Holy Scriptures. God has fully enabled His children to express and in fact, be love (agapē) just as He is love. The word love has been made common in our culture. I discuss by the leadership of the Holy Spirit, the importance of elevating this word to its very special place. This love...
This is a spiritual book that everyone should take the time to read. It entails the story of a woman who lived a life of extreme misfortune and hardship. Then a special friend came into her life and taught her the many things we all need to know in order to live peacefully and content. Life isn’t easy and we could all use some...
Mickey Cassman is the varsity wrestling coach at Troy High School. His team just won the biggest match of the year, and the league championship. After the season, Mickey is informed that he is being transferred to Mayville High School, where their wrestling program needs rebuilding. As the new wrestling season begins, Coach...
Do you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #Goodreads? #BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #BookWyrm instances and on #Mastodon. You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create...
I finally finished this book this week (I took a year long break somewhere around page 400) and it's left an impression but I'm still not sure what I think....
Unlocking Urban America's Social Recipes" by James Newsome is a carefully written exploration of the multifaceted socio-political landscape that defines contemporary American urban centers. This literary offering is an erudite dissection of the historical and contemporary forces governing political power, racial inequity, and...
He started playing the violin at 5. At 13, he received a scholarship to the Peabody Institute of Baltimore. At 15, he received a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music in New York. At 21, he led his own orchestra....
It used to be a todo list set up where I just check off and add whatever books caught my interest but it wasn't very shareable so I moved onto storygraph which I liked more than goodreads as the data visualization and breakdown of books via tags and moods gives me a better idea of where I tend to lean in books I seek out and...
Science fiction can lead people to be more cautious about the potential consequences of innovations. It can help people think critically about the ethics of science. Researchers have also found that sci-fi serves as a positive influence on how people view science. Science fiction scholar Istvan Csicsery-Ronay calls this...