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Review: Effective Leaders and Leadership by Mildred Stallworth

In this straightforward and surefooted guide to becoming an effective leader, author Mildred Stallworth offers a compendium of ideas that can prove helpful to people in all aspects of professional and personal life in Effective Leaders and Leadership.

Leaders, Stallworth says, create a vision that others can then follow. Comparing the leader of an organization to the head of the human body, she suggests that the “head” of a group has the responsibility to think and make decisions to control the actions and directions of the group as a whole. The head literally oversees the body; if the head […]

High on God by Matt Spinks

Written by a dedicated Christian, High on God: There’s No High Like the Most High explores a marvelous mystery: what if God simply wants us to be happy?

As a boy, Spinks was drawn to God, and despite the confusions of adolescence, including using drugs, he turned his life to mission work. With his wife and like-minded friends he founded a charitable ministry. But he was still in a controlling, almost depressive state. Then he had a true revelation – that God means us to enjoy his love right now and all the time: “Jesus came to announce that heaven […]

SPR2019-03-27T11:17:29+02:00March 27th, 2019|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Religion Book Reviews|

Review: Creating Christianity: A Weapon of Ancient Rome by Henry Davis

Since there is very little historical evidence of the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, many researchers, including author Henry Davis, assert that not only his person, but also the religion founded around him, were invented after his passing. Such is the case the Creating Christianity: A Weapon of Ancient Rome, a fascinating and thoroughly researched examination of this contentious topic.

Davis’s main thesis is that the gospels and other New Testament books were written not by Jewish/Christian scholars such as Matthew, Luke or Paul, but were fabricated by an aristocratic Roman family with the name Piso, notably Arrius Flavius […]

SPR2019-02-25T13:17:13+02:00January 10th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Religion Book Reviews|

Review: Mother Teresa Canonized or Crucified by Gerard

A Catholic Christian writer asserts that the Vatican sought to prevent the canonization of Mother Teresa, the Albanian-born nun who created a community convent in the slums of Calcutta, in Mother Teresa Canonized or Crucified: Liberate Catholic Church from the Corrupted Kingdom of Vatican.

Author Gerard presents his case against the Catholic hierarchy with a combination of cold logic and heated diatribe. He believes the loving service of Mother Teresa should serve as an example for all Christians and that the Church should open the roles of priestess and bishopess, cardinal and even Pope, to women, giving Catholic men […]

SPR2019-01-11T13:38:51+02:00December 15th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Religion Book Reviews|

Review: The Bible in a Nutshell by Dele Babalola

A scientist and a Christian, Dele Babalola has composed a book of Biblical analysis directed towards those of his faith and any others who want to share in the blessings of the coming end times in his treatise The Bible in a Nutshell: An Invaluable Aid to Understanding Creation, Life, The Rapture, End Times, Death and The Afterlife.

Beginning at the creation of all life, Babalola points out correctly that science is still baffled over the precise way the universe came into being. He examines the many theories – Big Bang, primordial soup – yet none of these show […]

SPR2019-01-22T10:30:00+02:00December 14th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Religion Book Reviews|

Transcending Vision: Christian Theology in an Age of Empiricism by Don McIntosh

Christian writer Don McIntosh effectively demonstrates how Christianity is relevant for all people and for all times, despite the modern, scientific and humanist tendency to downplay its eternal truths in Transcending Vision: Christian Theology in an Age of Empiricism.

The author speaks of the opposition of empiricism (that proof must come from experience) and foundationalism (that proof can be, and often is, accepted on faith). Faith, or fideism, is a virtue precisely because it offers no evidence. Jesus did not ask for intellectual understanding. The God of Christianity wants us to vest our hopes in Him, acknowledging that our […]

SPR2018-11-07T10:15:25+02:00November 6th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Religion Book Reviews|

The Traps That Satan Laid by Danica Ked

Australian author Danica Ked chronicles the demonic visitations that filled her life as she battled with schizophrenia in The Traps That Satan Laid: Overcoming the Devil and Other Demons in the Power of Jesus Christ.

At age seven the author began to have seizures and blackouts. By her teens she began exploring a “daydream world.” Satanic beings threatened to kill her, tempted her with lust, or overwhelmed her with secular influences. Yet she often heard hymns or the voice of God, who several times saved her, she believes, from sin or death. She was once consigned to a locked […]

SPR2018-06-15T09:29:19+02:00June 15th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews, Religion Book Reviews|

The Fog of Faith by Dr. Leona Stucky

In an emotionally charged memoir, The Fog of Faith: Surviving My Impotent God, author Dr. Leona Stucky suggests that religion may indeed offer hope, though not always in the ways we expect.

Raised in a Mennonite farming community, and one of seven children, the author began questioning religion in her late teens. Her loving mother contracted MS, becoming wheelchair-bound, and her father struggled to cope without his wife’s participation; farm work was grueling, and money was scarce. Stucky tried repeatedly to escape her abusive and threatening boyfriend, discovering that the law often sided with her abuser. She felt hopeless, […]

Barbara Scott2018-05-09T10:16:12+02:00April 4th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Religion Book Reviews|