My Review of "He Calls You Beautiful"

Dee Brestin's He Calls You Beautiful: Hearing the Voice of Jesus in the Song of Songs offers a rich Bible study resource for women -- focusing on the poetry of the Song of Songs as a love poem of Jesus for every woman's heart.

Rather than considering the Song of Songs as being only about marriage or only an allegory about Christ and the soul, Brestin shows that both are true -- in that the Song uses a picture of earthly marriage as a metaphor for the intimacy Jesus longs to have with every woman's heart.

I received a free copy of this book as part of the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest review here.

My Review of "Finally Focused"

James Greenblatt's Finally Focused is a great resource for parents and educators who struggle to adapt ADHD students into a gracious and productive childhood.  Greenblatt offers a number of non-pharmacological solutions, and in that way Finally Focused will be extremely useful for parents who are searching for help.

I received a free copy of this book as part of the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest review here.

My Review of "Break Open the Sky"

Stephan Bauman's Break Open the Sky:  Saving Our Faith from a Culture of Fear is a rich manifesto for living out Jesus' radical call for a life of love and faith in a culture of so much fear -- from terrorism to racism.  From the "refuge crisis and the political vitriol that surrounds it.  Americans are good at fear.  In fact, if the nightly news is any indication, that fear is only increasing.

And Bauman knows a thing or two about the world's concerns, and the fear that often surrounds them.  As the former president of World Relief, he has seen all the ways in which that culture of fear slips into our souls and misshapes human life.  Break Open the Sky is nothing short of a manifesto that calls us to shake ourselves out of the shadows and live into the Light of Christ's love.

I received a free copy of this book as part of the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest review here.