Live a better story. Get up and do. Look at your world differently. I dare you to read this book and not be changed. You’ll be challenged in your own study of Jesus. You’ll be challenged in your perception of church. Publisher’s description: “Love Does shares powerful stories coupled with eye-opening truths and empowers anyone who longs for a better world and a richer faith.” To me, this book was so much more. I carried it around with me each day because I felt like seeing the binding every time I looked into my purse reminded me of what I so easily forget. Love. Does. Action. Not words. Take it from Bob,...
Book Review: Love Finds You in Mackinac Island
When it comes to Melanie Dobson books, I’ve admitted that I’m a bit biased. I love each one of her books without fail. She’s written many Love Finds You books, including Homestead, Iowa, Amana, Iowa, Liberty, Indiana, and Nazareth, Pennsylvania (review coming soon!). She also authored The Silent Order, one of my all-time favorites and an award-winner. I’m also beyond blessed to be in a critique group with this amazing woman (and three other incredible women). Love Finds You in Mackinac Island has had a special place in my heart ever since I saw the first chapter in it’s “rough” form. (Nothing Melanie writes is ever that “rough.”) Description: It’s the height of...
Swept away by West with the Night
True friends refer you to amazing books. Caitlin Muir, you rock. This was perhaps one of the best book recommendations ever. Ernest Hemingway said it best about this book (as he knew of Beryl Markham personally): “…she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers.” Horse trainer, pilot and adventurer, Beryl Markham is a fascinating woman and an incredible...
Love Does (Part Two): Doing
I think Jesus had in mind that we would not just be “believers” but “participants.” Not because it’s hip, but because it’s more accurate, more fitting that way. He wanted people who get the “do” part of faith, not because He wanted activity, but because He wanted our faith to matter to us. – Bob Goff, Love Does Lately, this point has come up again and again in my life. Words don’t matter. Action matters. For a writer, that’s a hard reality to swallow. But I’ve come to see that the people and the books that have inspired me, like Love Does, comes from people who have done the actions...
Book Review: Love Does (Part 1)
If you watch this video, you won’t regret it. If you watch this video, you might cry. (Fair warning.) The grand marshal – the beautiful boy with the amazing smile, is a Ugandan boy who fell victim to a witchdoctor. Bob Goff’s law firm brought this case to trial – the first case for trafficking in people against a witchdoctor – and won the case. This is unlike any other book you’ll read. Because Bob Goff is unlike an other person I’ve ever heard of. You’ll be challenged to live a better story. You’ll be challenged to get up and do. You’ll be challenged to look at your world differently....