Journible The 17:18 Series: Acts By: Rob Wynalda

Journible The 17:18 Series: Acts

By: Rob Wynalda

I wish I had this series twenty years ago as I studied the Bible. I could have written the entire book of Acts on the right side and then answered questions to the left of what I had written.

I love this series because it brings back so many memories of when I first started to study the Bible by using NavPress materials. I have memorized over a hundred Bible verses up until now. I praise the Lord at the same for giving me a mind that can memorize His word so easily.

This book reminded me so much of my kindergarten days when I talked in class and my teacher would have me write 100 times on a sheet of paper: “I will not talk in class.” Writing out each verse of the book that you are studying will help you memorize them more easily. We try so hard by reading and rereading the verse that we want to memorize, but I believe that writing out the verse will help us more effectively memorize God’s word.

This series is a great tool for personal Bible Studies or personal devotions. I use this series for both. One thing I enjoy the most out of this series is just writing the Bible verses on the right side and answering questions on the left side without having to use a commentary. It’s just me and God’s word.

If you happen to study or do personal devotions on other books of the Bible other than Acts, you can find more titles of this series here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Ajournible&keywords=journible&ie=UTF8&qid=1368323100

I received this book for free from Reformation Heritage Books via Cross Focused Reviews for this review. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

Heaven Hears: The True Story of What Happened When Pat Boone Asked the World to Pray for His Grandson's Survival By: Lindy Boone Michaelis with Susy Flory

Heaven Hears: The True Story of What Happened When Pat Boone Asked the World to Pray for His Grandson's Survival

By: Lindy Boone Michaelis with Susy Flory

If you are at a bookstore reading the title, subtitle, foreword by Pat Boone, endorsement by Rick Warren on the front cover, and endorsements on the back cover by bestselling authors Stormie Omartian, Larry King, and Jack Hayford, hopefully you don’t turn to page 36 and read that the Boones had been attending Hal Lindsey (author of The Late Great Planet Earth)’s weekly Bible Study.

This book is supposedly about Pat Boone’s grandson’s survival, but you will find that this book talks more about Lindy (Ryan’s mother) than Ryan. And don’t expect to read much about Pat Boone either.

This book is a story about Ryan’s survival from a 30 to 40ft fall (p. 92), and all the conditions described on page 90 would overwhelm anyone who reads this book. I would have felt the same as Lindy did in what she went through during the time that Ryan was still in intensive care.

My main concern with this book is Chapter 4, where Lindy (the author, Pat Boone’s daughter and Ryan’s mother) talked about her divorce, and then dated and married an unbeliever. I would have a problem if anyone’s daughter read this book and got the idea that Pat Boone’s daughter can get divorced, and then date and marry an unbeliever (p. 52). She married an unbeliever whom even her parents didn’t approve of (p. 53). Despite the fact that her second husband later became a Christian, it was through a response card where he checked off box “B” (box “B” said, “I’m placing my hope in Jesus today, trusting him to save me and give me a fresh start and new life.”) (p. 84). He can check off boxes “A” through “Z”, but that still would not make him a Christian (p. 84).

Evidently, Lindy doesn’t have a good understanding of what saving faith is according to the Bible when she said, “So I decided to approach the Lord from my heart, because that’s where faith comes from…” (p84). It completely contradicts Romans 10:17.

Disclosure: Tyndale House Publishers provided me with a copy of Heaven Hears: The True Story of What Happened When Pat Boone Asked the World to Pray for His Grandson's Survival; however, all views expressed in this post are my own.

Contentment, Prosperity, and God's Glory By: Jeremiah Burroughs

Contentment, Prosperity, and God's Glory 

By: Jeremiah Burroughs

Edited by: Phillip L. Simpson

1.      Introduction
2.      What Learning to Be Full Means
3.      The Difficulty of Learning to be Full
4.      The Necessity of Learning to Be Full
5.      The Excellency of Learning to Be Full
6.      The Mystery of Learning to Be Full
7.      Lessons for Learning to Be Full
8.      Increasing the Guilt of Sins of Abundance
9.      Applications for Improving Prosperous Conditions
10.  Concluding Words on Contentment

This is a very short book that is just 119 pages, but I have sticky notes on almost every page. I can’t write every word from those notes here for this review because if I did, then you would not need to read this book.

Have you noticed that almost every chapter title in this book contains the word “learning”? I saw a great deal of Chapter 4 played out when the company that I work at passed three promotions to others. Here is the lesson: “God gives things to His own people, He cares about them after He has given it. ‘I will give it to them,’ He says, ‘but I am concerned that this might turn out to their hurt’” (p. 60).

I will leave you with this quote, and I pray that you will read this book and LEARN TO BE FULL: “You say of some rich men that they have certain possessions; the truth is that their possessions have them rather than they have their possessions. Their possessions rule over them” (p. 21).

I received this book for free from Reformation Heritage Books via Cross Focused Reviews for this review. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."