Edwina: The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She was Extinct by Mo Willems (2006) In this delightful tale, a skeptical child named Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie refuses to believe that dinosaurs still exist. In fact, he makes it his mission to convince … Continue reading
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Walking from East to West by Ravi Zacharias (2006)
Ravi Zacharias is known the world over as a modern-day patriarch of Christian apologetics, including inside some of the less-open nations in Asia. A friend of ours in one such area asked if we had any of his resources to … Continue reading
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell by Lucille Colandro (2006)
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell by Lucille Colandro, Illus. by Jared Lee (2006) It’s the holiday season, so I’ve taken my class through a whole stack of Christmas- or winter-related books over the past few weeks. … Continue reading
The Faith of the American Soldier by Stephen Mansfield (2006)
This book was an important addition to my library during my military years, specifically since I was training to be a Chaplain (something that bureaucratic stupidity never allowed to blossom, to which in hindsight I can now say “praise the … Continue reading
Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter (2006)
This was the first e-book I ever read, working my way through it on my 3-inch cell phone screen back in early 2008. I picked this book specifically, because the Presidential primaries were in full swing at the time, and … Continue reading
The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg (2006)
Part Four of The Last Jihad series by Joel C. Rosenberg takes a new direction from the previous installments, placing less focus on genuine international politics (after all, Rosenberg’s world has been completely rearranged after nuclear blasts and a fierce … Continue reading
The Ezekiel Option by Joel C. Rosenberg (2006)
There are very few books that I’ve wanted to reread in my lifetime. The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare; The Enemy Within by Kris Lundgaard; Alive by Piers Paul Read—these are the few that come to mind. Now I’ve … Continue reading
Cross-Cultural Servanthood by Duane Elmer (2006)
[Note: This review was originally completed as a paper in seminary.] While “Serving the World in Christlike Humility” seems like a fantasy pursuit accomplished only by the earliest church fathers, Duane Elmer writes Cross-Cultural Servanthood for both missionaries and other … Continue reading
Believer’s Baptism by Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright (2006)
Sign of the New Covenant in Christ The authors of Believers Baptism essentially purpose to validate believer’s baptism (credobaptism) (6) as a believer’s “initiation rite into the Christian church” (1) in contrast to infant baptism (paedobaptism), which some evangelicals, specifically … Continue reading
The Peacemaking Pastor by Alfred Poirier (2006)
A Biblical Guide to Resolving Church Conflict I am not a pastor, so whenever I am recommended a book about pastoring, I tend to approach it with less enthusiasm than I might a book intended for teachers or other church … Continue reading