ReesesPieces
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Sounds very good Ill have to add this one to the list as well!! Hope God opens your eyes to enhance your heart more towards him!
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Sounds very good Ill have to add this one to the list as well!! Hope God opens your eyes to enhance your heart more towards him!
Navigator
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Don't know if I should call it the female "version" but it IS aimed more at females.
I'm actually reading that now...though I'm not very far.
ReesesPieces
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Speculative
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I just finished Nightmare at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by Perry Stone. I don't agree with everything he says, but he brings up some good points and a whole lotta food for thought. Also been working through A Patriot's History of the United States.
farouk
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Speculative: Kind of like a novel version of The West Wing, right?
Psalm28:7
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I hate when that happens hopefully you will find a way to pull through!
Thank you!
Speculative
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No, it's not a novel at all. It's a book about end-times prophecy.
farouk
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No, it's not a novel at all. It's a book about end-times prophecy.
Speculative:
Oh I see. Ty, anyway.
ReesesPieces
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Sounds interesting, I do enjoy books about important families who push the boundaries!! Let me know your final thoughts if you would, my interest is peaked!
Mike S
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I will.
I'm interested in the Beechers partly because our paths have crossed (a couple of hundred years apart, to be sure) in so many places. Hartford Connecticut, Elmira New York, New York City,etc. But, also, just because they were such a darned dynamic family, and so darn many of them! They were, for the 1800s a little like the Kennedys were for the 1900s. You almost couldn't throw a rock anywhere in New England without hitting one.
I just finished ready Battlefield of the mind by Joyce Meyer... It helped me get my thought life under control. I used to have an out of control mind and my thoughts where crazy and truly not something Jesus would approve of. but now I have learned to submit my mind to God along with all of my thoughts.. God Bless
NinaMMitchell
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19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult. She writes such intriguing novels that I cannot put down. This one is about a school shooting and the aftermath. This book, along with all her books, are written from various points of view, and this book in particular goes from present day to several years prior and back again. I would highly recommend almost any Jodi Picoult novel. Every one that I've read so far have dealt with highly controversial issues ( i.e. a wrongful birth lawsuit) and they have all involved court trials.
tim-from-pa
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Right now I'm reading this free online book:
www.keepersoftheway.org/publications/calendar.pdf
I'm into astronomy and time-keeping and I find this a well researched refreshing hybrid between the astronomical science of the Jewish calendar and the scriptures. And this ain't no little booklet, either! It's like over 400 pages long and the appendixes are actually a little longer than the body of the book! He argues persuasively that many of the churches that insist we keep the Jewish feast days are indeed using the wrong calendar, one that is calculated, so they are not properly keeping the feasts, either. Instead, we don't actually know when the months begin until the sighting of the new moon.
By the way, in reference to Jesus' coming again, the feast of Trumpets being the first day of the seventh month is the only feast we don't know when it will start unless we are watching. Thus, no man knows the day or the hour of that sighting but when it is sighted, then the Trumpet will sound.
www.keepersoftheway.org/publications/calendar.pdf
I'm into astronomy and time-keeping and I find this a well researched refreshing hybrid between the astronomical science of the Jewish calendar and the scriptures. And this ain't no little booklet, either! It's like over 400 pages long and the appendixes are actually a little longer than the body of the book! He argues persuasively that many of the churches that insist we keep the Jewish feast days are indeed using the wrong calendar, one that is calculated, so they are not properly keeping the feasts, either. Instead, we don't actually know when the months begin until the sighting of the new moon.
By the way, in reference to Jesus' coming again, the feast of Trumpets being the first day of the seventh month is the only feast we don't know when it will start unless we are watching. Thus, no man knows the day or the hour of that sighting but when it is sighted, then the Trumpet will sound.
Down Yokel
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I am currently reading Personal declination and the rival of religion in the soul by Octavious Winslow. It's a fantastic book that every Christian should read. Below is the link where it can be view online and I have copied the preface for you to read. It's one of this books that will change your life and walk.
That the subject on which this humble volume treats is vastly solemn, and deeply searching, every true believer in Jesus must acknowledge. The existing necessity for such a work has long impressed itself upon the Author's mind. While other and abler writers are employing their pens, either in defending the outposts of Christianity, or in arousing a slumbering church to an increased intensity of personal and combined action in the great work of Christian benevolence, he has felt that it might but be instrumental, in ever so humble a way, of occasionally withdrawing the eye of the believer from the dazzling and almost bewildering movements around him, and fixing it upon the state of HIS OWN PERSONAL RELIGION, he would be rendering the Christian church a service, not the less needed and important in her present elevated and excited position.
It must be admitted, that the character and the tendencies of the age are not favorable to deep and mature reflection upon the hidden, spiritual life of the soul. Whirled along as the church of God is, in her brilliant path of benevolent enterprise, - deeply engaged in concerting and in carrying out new and far-reaching plans of aggression upon the dominion of sin, - and compelled in one hand to hold the spiritual sword in defense of the faith which, with the other, she is up-building, - but few energies are left, and but little time is afforded, for close, faithful, and frequent dealing with the personal and spiritual state of grace in the soul; which, in consequence of thus being overlooked and uncultivated, may fall into a state of the deepest and most painful declension. "They made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard have I not kept." (Song 1:6)
It is, then, the humble design of the writer in the present work, for a while to withdraw the mind from the consideration of the mere externals of Christianity, and to aid the believer in answering the solemn and searching inquiry, - "What is the present spiritual state of my soul before God?" In the following pages he is exhorted to forget the Christian profession he sustains, the party badge he wears, and the distinctive name by which he is known among men, - to turn aside for a brief hour from all religious duties, engagements, and excitement, and to look this question fully and fairly in the face.
With human wisdom and eloquence the Author has not seen fit to load and adorn his work: the subject presented itself to his mind in too solemn and dreadful an aspect for this. The ground he traversed he felt to be so holy, that he had need to put off the shoes from his feet, and to lay aside everything that was not in strict harmony with the spiritual character of his theme. That the traces of human imperfection may be found on every page, no one can be more conscious than the Author, - no one more deeply humbled. Indeed, so affecting to his own mind has been the conviction of the feeble manner in which the subject is treated, that but for a deep sense of its vast importance, and the demand that exists for its discussion in almost any shape, he would more than once have withdrawn his book from the press. May the Spirit of God accompany its perusal with power and unction, and to Him, as unto the Father and the Son, shall be ascribed the glory!
The rest can be read here
http://www.gracegems.org/W/pd0.htm
That the subject on which this humble volume treats is vastly solemn, and deeply searching, every true believer in Jesus must acknowledge. The existing necessity for such a work has long impressed itself upon the Author's mind. While other and abler writers are employing their pens, either in defending the outposts of Christianity, or in arousing a slumbering church to an increased intensity of personal and combined action in the great work of Christian benevolence, he has felt that it might but be instrumental, in ever so humble a way, of occasionally withdrawing the eye of the believer from the dazzling and almost bewildering movements around him, and fixing it upon the state of HIS OWN PERSONAL RELIGION, he would be rendering the Christian church a service, not the less needed and important in her present elevated and excited position.
It must be admitted, that the character and the tendencies of the age are not favorable to deep and mature reflection upon the hidden, spiritual life of the soul. Whirled along as the church of God is, in her brilliant path of benevolent enterprise, - deeply engaged in concerting and in carrying out new and far-reaching plans of aggression upon the dominion of sin, - and compelled in one hand to hold the spiritual sword in defense of the faith which, with the other, she is up-building, - but few energies are left, and but little time is afforded, for close, faithful, and frequent dealing with the personal and spiritual state of grace in the soul; which, in consequence of thus being overlooked and uncultivated, may fall into a state of the deepest and most painful declension. "They made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard have I not kept." (Song 1:6)
It is, then, the humble design of the writer in the present work, for a while to withdraw the mind from the consideration of the mere externals of Christianity, and to aid the believer in answering the solemn and searching inquiry, - "What is the present spiritual state of my soul before God?" In the following pages he is exhorted to forget the Christian profession he sustains, the party badge he wears, and the distinctive name by which he is known among men, - to turn aside for a brief hour from all religious duties, engagements, and excitement, and to look this question fully and fairly in the face.
With human wisdom and eloquence the Author has not seen fit to load and adorn his work: the subject presented itself to his mind in too solemn and dreadful an aspect for this. The ground he traversed he felt to be so holy, that he had need to put off the shoes from his feet, and to lay aside everything that was not in strict harmony with the spiritual character of his theme. That the traces of human imperfection may be found on every page, no one can be more conscious than the Author, - no one more deeply humbled. Indeed, so affecting to his own mind has been the conviction of the feeble manner in which the subject is treated, that but for a deep sense of its vast importance, and the demand that exists for its discussion in almost any shape, he would more than once have withdrawn his book from the press. May the Spirit of God accompany its perusal with power and unction, and to Him, as unto the Father and the Son, shall be ascribed the glory!
The rest can be read here
http://www.gracegems.org/W/pd0.htm