Life of a Reader
grace truth: even when the sky doesn’t open sweetly you can still find grace growing from somewhere. I avoided poetry for a very long time. I appreciated literature as a child, growing up in a home where books were read-aloud every night and spending every free moment drinking in every Nancy Drew mystery and Janette Oke book I […]
For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven . . . I am a bibliophile through and through. If you cut me, I might bleed ink, to be perfectly honest. However, this year has marked a new level of reading obsession. I met my mark for the number of books I wanted to read […]
I’d like you to imagine that you’re holding God’s GPS in your hand. Regardless of when you pick this book up to read it, or where you live in the world, God’s everlasting principles herein will never fail to guide you as you seek to make him known in your relational encounters. What if the greatest danger to […]
Thoughts . . . even though I haven’t read the book. Or seen the movie. 🙂 Where the Crawdads Sing lay in wait only momentarily for Reese Witherspoon to pick it up and read the now-famous story within its covers. In fact, it was actually only one month after publishing that Witherspoon read and praised the novel. Fast-forward to the […]
Doctor Strange: The Multiverse of Madness (2022) Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olson, Bendict Wong Director: Sam Raimi MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, frightening images, and some language Mankind is depraved. In fact, I am depraved. To take it further, you are depraved. If you want to stop reading now, be my guest. We have a heavy topic today, and it may […]
Pamela’s Prayer (1998) Starring: Serena Orrego, Rick Scheideman, Ted Kuenz Director: Dave Christiano MPAA Rating: Unrated Purity culture gets a bad rap these days. Some flack might be deserved, but some isn’t. Purity, including modesty, has increasingly been left up to each individual to discern and decide for themselves where their lines in the sand are. This has produced a […]
The Shadow Riders (1982) Starring: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, Katherine Ross Director: Andrew V. McLaglen Rating: PG for mild profanity, some suggestive content, and mild action and violence Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot are two of my favorite western actors. In fact, other than Val Kilmer I don’t think I care for any other western actors . . […]
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein According to the author, “This book started as a graduation speech, and graduation speeches are meant to be grandiose.” While I wouldn’t necessarily call it grandiose, it is philosophical and perhaps a little picturesque in it’s approach to life. There are a […]
God has inspired a Psalm for every sigh of the soul . . . The Lord has persistently convicted me about my prayer life for the past few months. Prayer has been brought up in sermons at church, the […]
I tried to watch the original True Grit last week. I couldn’t muster the strength to finish. I watched the new True Grit last summer with my brother. Though I came away unimpressed, I was not completely bored (I was close though.) I made it one hour through the original before I threw in my hat. I found the new adaptation cheesy […]