Dinner with a perfect stranger.  How would you react if Jesus sent you an invitation to have dinner with him?  In this story, Nick Comisky is a business man who got an anonymous invitation to have dinner with Jesus.  Thinking it a trap from his colleagues he shows up and is sat at a table with a man claiming to be Jesus.  Through the course of the dinner, Jesus shows Nick how other world religions don’t match up and how people were made for so much more and how he offered that way.

The first thing I though about the book was, wow this is small.  I sat down and read the book in an hour and enjoyed it.  The setting is an expensive Italian restaurant and Jesus has shed the beard, cloak, and sandals for a suit, tie, and loafers.  The meal is more like a debate on how that Jesus isn’t who he says he is, but in a very laid back fashion.  Altogether it was a pretty good book and made some great points for the case of Christianity.  

I received this book free from the publisher and am not required to write a positive review, but one of my own opinion.

The Encounter is a short fictional story about facing the hurts and secrets of our past.  The story centers around Jonathan Rush, a very wealth CEO who goes to Alaska on a personal mission to find out about his past, in particular why his mother abandoned him.  His anger, resentment, and bitterness about his past had destroyed three marriages and led him to try to commit suicide.  He knew he had to deal with his past and figure out how to forgive his mother and himself before his past finally caught up with him. 

The Encounter is a short story stopping at 140 pages.  I read the book straight through in about an hour and it kept me reading the entire time.  The book is real short and seems like it could be longer and that things could be expounded upon more.  The message of the book isn’t incomplete, but for such a hefty topic the book is very short.  I really liked the book in that the message was super clear.  Overall it was a good read, a short one, but a captivating story with a message that is often not told about in our culture. 

I received this book free from the publisher and am not required to write a positive review, but one of my own opinion.

It seems this year that there has been a lot of controversy about Thanksgiving Day.  The question of controversy is whether or not Christmas music, decoration, etc... should be setup or played before Thanksgiving.  It is a fair question and should be asked, because so often we skip over Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas.  I think people ask this question because they want to remember what they are thankful for and in today's economy, people see a lot to be thankful for.  But that is not what I am as interested in.  What I see as so ironic is that the day we are supposed to remember what we are thankful for, is followed by one of the biggest days of violence and greed that stores see across the nations.  On Black Friday people are injured and killed trying to purchase stuff to satisfy their "needs".  The day that we sit down and think upon all that we are thankful for is followed by the day where we go and purchase stuff to satisfy our wants.  Kinda ironic isn't it?

Lonestar Angel is a book about how God uses tragedies and our hurts to bring us closer to Him.  The book focuses around a couple who had split, but joined together to search for their daughter who was kidnapped and who they thought was dead.  However, they were sent an anonomous note saying that she was alive and this is the adventure of finding out the truth, while growing close to each other and rebuilding their marriage and their relationship with Christ. 

Everybody has a past and not all of it is pretty.  We have all experienced hurt and sometimes it isn’t our fault and we by no means caused it.  However we are left hurt and feel abandoned, but through those trials God can bring us closer to Him and we can experience Christ in a way we never had before.  It also gives us the opportunity to see and experience new things, things we wouldn’t have expeienced otherwise that can make us a better person. 

This is a great book for everybody to read, because everybody has been through some sort of trial in one way or another and this is a book that brings hope and shows through a fiction story that God uses all things for good, for those who love God. 

I received this book free from the publisher and am not required to write a positive review, but one of my own opinion.

All I can say is WOW!  This book was a phenomenal read!  When the book arrived at my doorstep and I pulled it out of the packaging one of the first things I noticed was its size, the book was pretty thick.  I had read about the book before getting it and I didn't quite know what to expect as far as content goes.  I didn't know exactly what type of book it was, but knew I was in for a ride.  

Gordan Macdonald wrote a fictional book about himself training people to be leaders, to be deep in their faith and not just wide.  There is so much that you can learn through this book and there as so many angles to learn from.  This book can help you to become deeper in your faith with Christ, it can also help propel you and give you ideas and inspiration for you to train others to becoming deep people.


Whether you are looking for a great read, some inspiration, or to find ways to help lead or teach others, this book will provide some sort of information for you in a easy reading, relaxing way.  I highly suggest reading this book!

I received this book free from the publisher and am not required to write a positive review, but one of my own opinion.

This book was a very great and refreshing read.  John Bevere does an incredible job by using scripture and stories to show you the life that is meant to be lived and how so often we settle for less.

I received this book free from the publisher and am not required to write a positive review, but one of my own opinion.

My days are becoming crazier and crazier...  School, which had slowed down is now picking back up, which isn't the reason my life's so crazy.  I'm volunteering for the Virginia Christmas Spectacular, in the lighting side of things, several days a week which adds a lot to the busyness of life.  On top of that, I had do some work on a set design for our middle school youth group, I had to reset the lights in our high school youth group, and re position the lights for the 4th and 5th graders.  Apart from classes, my days are spent doing some sort of lighting and my nights are being spent doing school for that day, or getting school done for the next day.  I'm going to be busy tomorrow doing schoolwork for the next week, so that my life isn't to hectic.  I sorta enjoy all the busyness in a way, because it gives me a challenge.  On the other hand, I'm taking in so much new information and learning so many new things, that I wish I didn't have to do everything else and could just focus on VCS.