The Scribe's Portion

"Battle Ready: Train Your Mind to Conquer Challenges,  Defeat Doubt, and Live Victoriously" Kelly Balarie This book is not what I had expected. I guess that is my fault for not paying much attention to the subtitle and the synopsis. But in a sense, this book was exactly what I had expected, let me explain.  I knew this book was going to be another of those "do this and that and you should be better at this." I don't know why I keep picking these books when I find main-stream Christian books cringy. But I wanted to give this book a chance, hoping I was wrong and that this book wouldn't be like the rest.  But I found out I was mistaken again.   I apologize if my words seem a bit harsh but this is your typical Christian book about how changing your mindset helps you to confront anything in life.  Kelly goes through 12 different mindsets she says we need to change to prepare for life's hardships. These mindsets include: Possibility...

"Minding the Light" Nantucket Legacy, Book 2 Suzanne Woods Fisher The first novel in the series was great but the second one was even better! I don't know what it is about this series that has absolutely captivated me as no other has in quite a while.  The heroine of the novel, Daphne Coffin is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Great Mary and great-granddaughter of Phoebe Starbuck (heroine of the first novel). It's set in 1821 in Nantucket when the whaling business was still popular and Quakers dominated the island. Daphne is a young woman whose faith inspires others to change and encourages them to "mind the light." Her faith is genuine because she lives it out, something most Quaker Nantucketers lack. And this is the character's strongest trait and what makes this novel great.  The novel deals a lot with the topic of hypocrisy and racism. Daphne realizes that most Quakers claim to be anti-slavery but continue to shun people ...

"Hitler's Cross: How the Cross Was Used to Promote the Nazi Agenda" Erwin W. Lutzer Hitler's Cross is an important book for Christians today. In this 260 page treatment of the Nazi Regime, Luzter exposes the success behind the Nazi agenda and why the church just stood by and allowed it to happen. This is a very complete expose of the evil behind Hitler's Nazi philosophy. In it, Lutzer takes the reader through the early inception of Nazism, how Hitler was aided and influenced by the evil forces of the world, and how he used the message of the Cross as a means to deceive the church. Lutzer does a great job of analyzing the background of Nazism, how and why the church fell into the deception, and the lessons the church can learn today from this dark period in history. He also provides short biographies of Christians (Bonhoeffer, Niemoller, Barth, etc) who were not fooled and who suffered for staying true to their convictions against Hitler. This i...