Saturday, September 8, 2012

Grace more than we deserve greater than we imagine by Lucado

Lucado is my favorite author. He is always inspirational and he never disappoints. If you enjoy spending your time with a book that will give you a feeling of hope and capability then i reccommend you pick up any Lucado book. This particular book, emmerses the reader in GRACE. We toss the word around when its not a mere word but it is a WORK of God. Grace is a noun, its something we get and its a verb; its something God does for us. Grace is amazing, not because it is a noun and a verb but because it is a work of God. A gift. But we forget about it. We over look it. We ignore the power that God drops right inot our hands via the Grace He bestows upon us. If you in anyway could use a reminder of that: read this book. Max never disappoints me and i am a fairly harsh critic: and I have come to depend on Max as a source of inspiration. It is good to know what to expect. Expect to be electrified by Max. Max will take you many steps closer to the Light if you will let him. Max has a lot of potential to do even greater works in the future and inspire even more people for the Glory of God. Somewhere out there there is a young Billy Graham just waiting to be ispired who will ignite a whole new generation for God. Specifically, Max uses real life example from real people to show how the Grace of God is powerful and motivating. If you have ever read a Lucado book then you know the format. But I never grow tired of reading his work because he always puts the focus on Gods work. I think Max is Gods Work in motion. I think Grace is a beautiful baby girl, smiling at the world through the eyes of the Holy Spirit. And everyone would benefit from reading this book. I received a free copy of this book through the publisher, Thomas Nelson in exchange for writing a review. If you think that in anyway affected my opinion, you need to check out my other reviews. Go to mary wrightt blogspot.com to find my page, Walking Like Daniel, to read other reviews. They are not all kind, but they are all honest.

Serpent of Moses by Don Hoesel

I review books ofr 7 different publishers. I do not normally review fiction as i do not enjoy fiction. With that in mind, I will be easy on my review. This is not the first book in a series it is second and I would not have read this work if i had realized it was not a stand alone read as i do not like to commit my time to so much fiction. It read different from most fiction. The breath is not consistant. It does not have a steady rythmn. It read like an attempt to write a Mummy Returns novel. The writer chose to take a known fact, God tells us that the staff is no more --the writer decided to pretend that teh staff is still floating around. Thats where the author lost my support: dont play what-if with biblical facts. Babalon Falling, is a good biblical fiction story but this book, Serpent of Moses was not to my liking. If you have a young adult, and you want to get them thinking about the Bible, dont get this book. Buy a good fiction book that backs up the Bible, not one that makes a fact change: I can not get behind that. Yes, the author puts in mystery and archeology and his characters are not flat. But I did not like it. I thought Jack was boring, I thought it was a waste of effort and time. BUT - I also think a lot of people will like the book; I just wont endorse it because i dont like playing what if games with facts. So many things we dont know about; why didnt the author pick one of those topics? The writing style was also not upto par. I had a go back and reread a few pages. Maybe because I did not find it enjoyable. But I thought as I was reading that it was because I do not care for fiction. I gave this book 5 stars because I could see how someone else would enjoy it...I just do not enjoy fiction and I realize that might have been the problem. I received a free copy of this book from bethany House publishers in exchange for my review.