What are You Currently Reading?

Apostasy from the Gospel, John Owen.

Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas

Power Filled Living, R A Torrey

Systematic Theology, Wayne Grudem

The Holy Scriptures, NASB

 

Right now I'm reading The Power of a Praying Husband and using it as my daily quiet time as well. I use my Bible in conjunction with this of course.

Me and my wife together are reading the book Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend.

 

NIV
Eugene Peterson's Eat This Book
Call to Discipleship (Karl Barth)
Living by the Book (Howard Hendricks)
Salvation and Sovereignty by (Kenneth Keathly; it's a book on Molinism)
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There is a book in the Treasure Room here that I have been meaning to read for several years. Yesterday I checked it out and started reading. On a whim I searched google books and found that the entire book is there free to download and read. If you have an interest on the life of Christians in the past you would find this book of interest.

The title is:

An English Girl's Account of a Moravian Community in the Black Forest
The book was published in 1860.

The link is:

http://books.google.com/books?id=E5...&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Fatal Convictions by Randy Singer.

Last week: The Mayan Apocalypse by Mark Hitchcock and Alton Gansky

 

Reed, D. R. (2007). Mission to Canaan. Enumclaw, WA: Pleasant Word.



This fictional novel is self-published. I stopped by the author's booth at the Kentucky Book Fair (fall, 2008) and briefly discussed the research he conducted before writing the book. At the end of our discussion, he autographed my copy. A very nice, soft-spoken gentleman.

Now, a few years later (like many book purchases), I am getting around to this book. The reading is light and exciting--good for boys and girls of all ages.



The author wrote the following in the front of my copy.

11-15-08

Bob, I hope you enjoy this adventure story.

D. R. Reed​

From the back cover of the book . . .

Twelve men set out on a covert mission that would impact the future of their race. Commissioned by the great Patriarch Moses, Joshua and his men were to bring back reports on the land God told them to conquer, a land “flowing with milk and honey.”

Based on biblical fact, Mission to Canaan elaborates on the story of the forty days these determined men spent spying on the Promised Land.Considered as bandits and suffering temporary captivity, the men faced constant danger. Day after day they moved quickly and silently through their destined homeland, gathering information about the local defenses in advance of the invasion by the people of Moses.

They returned with tales of giant men, abominable religious practices, and abundant resources. The success of the proposed incursion was doubted by many of the men but Joshua stood firm––God’s promises were true.

. . .

In the style of Jack London and Edgar Rice Burroughs, author Dallas Ray Reed provides the reader with classic tales of a noble quest. His military service and many travels in Europe and the Middle East have given the former college professor an insider's feel for the adventure tales of Mission to Canaan.

Religion / Biblical Biography / Old Testament
ISBN-13: 978-1-4141-0914-5
ISBN-10: 1-4141-0914-8​

You can order the book direct from Pleasant Word or ChristianBook.com.



...Bob

 

One Man's War by Tommy LaMore.

The memoirs of LaMore's experiences in WW II, first as a tail gunner in a B-17, then as a prisoner of war of the Germans, his escape and his travels with the Russian army until the end of the war. He was with a Russian unit that was largely made up of the Mongolian Terror Soldiers. You did not want to meet them in battle. Even the hardened SS were afraid of these soldiers.

 

Courage To Stand by former Minnesota governor and potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate, Tim Pawlenty. I am about 37% of the way through it. A very interesting autobiography.

 

The Last Operative, by Jerry B. Jenkins

 

The Assignment by Mark Andrew Olson.

 

Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy

 

About three quarters of the way through Arthur Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson. Just finished the chapter on the Jacksonian era and religion and on the maturing of the concept of the separation of church and state.

This book has shown me how little I know about economics!

 

Doctor Goebbels / His Life and Death by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel.

A biography of the Nazi propagandist. He was a real piece of work.

 

The entire hierarchy of the Nazi party was a group of mental cases who gained power.

I just finished:

The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

Heydrich is still called "The Butcher of Prague."

 

The Man Who Would Be King by Kipling.

 

"The Story Tellers Daughter," by Saira Shah

Tough read.

Two reviews follow, one from a reader on Amazon and one from Publishers Weekly.

 

Ever read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer? Should be required reading.

 

The movie is great!



Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Trailer


...Bob

 

Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare (1594).

And I have often heard it said unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone. (Act II, Scene 2)​

Listen online at LibriVox.





"Choosing the Red and White roses", Henry Payne (1908).





"The Maid of Orleans", Henrietta Ward (1871).





"Talbot engages in battle", H. C. Selous (1830).



...Bob

 

I really like LibriVox!