Title: Preaching and Teaching with Imagination Author: Warren W. Wiersbe Genre: Religion Publisher: Baker Books Release Date: February 1, 1997 Pages: 400 No more dreary three-point sermon outlines! Wiersbe coaches preachers to creatively proclaim the living Word--so hearers experience God's truth changing their lives. This was a good book, with a lot of good points, …
Hard Green
Title: Hard Green Author: Peter Huber Genre: Nature Publisher: Basic Books Release Date: 1999 Pages: 224 A strongly-argued critique of environmentalism from the right - the conservative's answer to Al Gore's Earth in the Balance. Peter Huber demonstrates that the green movement is mostly brown. The greatest threat to the environment would be your standard …
Lila
Title: Lila Author: Marilynne Robinson Genre: Fiction Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: October 7, 2014 Pages: 272 Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview. Wonderful description, …
The Dawning of Indestructible Joy
Title: The Dawning of Indestructible Joy Author: John Piper Genre: Religion Publisher: Crossway Books Release Date: August 31, 2014 Pages: 94 This book of 25 devotionals from John Piper helps readers refocus and meditate on the one thing that makes the Christmas season worth celebrating: the birth of Jesus, Israel's long-awaited Messiah. Nancy and I …
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Title: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems Author: William Butler Yeats Genre: Poetry Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: June 15, 2010 Pages: 576 The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the …
God the Poet
Title: God the Poet Author: Jeffrey Jay Niehaus Genre: God in literature Release Date: April 1, 2014 Pages: 159 In readable and nonscholarly fashion, Niehaus, who is both a theologian and poet, provides a theological and literary analysis of the epic poems of Dante (Divine Comedy), Milton (Paradise Lost), Cowper (The Task), and Wordsworth. Niehaus …
All Art Is Propaganda
Title: All Art Is Propaganda Author: George Orwell Genre: Literary Collections Release Date: 2009 Pages: 374 Offering commentary on the worlds of film, drama, literature, and language, a collection of criticism and essays by the author of 1984 includes such pieces as "Politics and the English Language," "Rudyard Kipling," and "Good Bad Books." This was …
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson Author: James Boswell Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Princeton University Press Release Date: 1992 Pages: 1278 (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) I recently included a “bucket book” in my line-up of books I am reading. These are books I really ought to have read by this time in my …
Mozart: A Life
Title: Mozart Author: Paul Johnson Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Viking Adult Release Date: 2013 Pages: 164 A portrait of the genius eighteenth-century composer focuses on his significant output of music and how it reflected his ability to master virtually all of the musical instruments of his period, and challenges myths about his health, finances, …
C.S. Lewis & Mere Christianity
Title: C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity Author: Paul McCusker Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Tyndale House Pub Release Date: May 30, 2014 Pages: 228 Tells the story of the dramatic events and personal sacrifice that went into the creation of Mere Christianity. I liked this one, filing it under biography. But it is actually …