You Can Be Everything God Wants You To Be

What is it your enjoy doing? What is it you do well? Believe it or not, there is a reason you have a passion for something. “God made only one version of you. He custom designed you for a one-of-a-kind assignment.”
In Max Lucado’s new book “You Can Be Everything God Wants You To Be” Max explains that there is a reason that we have passion for things in life. There is also a reason that not everyone has the same passion. If we all liked the same things, then we would all do the same things.
This book is smaller and easy to read but it packs a powerful message. A great gift book for those who are graduating, or those who think God cannot use them. We can all be used by God to reach out and fulfill the mission of God.
My favorite quote from the book is: "The Spirit has given each of us a special way of serving others." Enough of this self-deprecating "I can't do anything." And enough of its arrogant opposite: "I have to do everything." No, you don't! You're not God's solution to society, but a solution in society. Imitate Paul, who said, "Our goal is to stay within the boundaries of God's plan for us" (2 Cor. 10:13 NLT). “
There are three types of people whom I will recommend this book too. Those who ask what God wants them to do, those that say they cannot be used by God and those who think they have to do it all.

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How Should a Christian Live?

How Should a Christian Live is a devotional that is geared towards the pre-teen to young teenager. There is an audio CD that starts with 1st Corinthians and goes through Philemon. Each track on the CD is a different section of the Bible and they are read by teen actors.

There are twelve lessons in all and each lesson is broken up into five areas, Get It, Grab It, Hold It, Live it, and Give it. There are games interspersed throughout the lesson that helps with retaining what you are learning and with the verses that you are studying. One of the things I liked most about this devotional is the blank pages that are left at the end of each lesson for the student to journal their thoughts. This gives an opportunity for the student to write down the things they are learning and helps as a way to retain that information as they can come back to it at a later date.
The length of the lessons and the audio tracks isn’t long and therefore will fit in with the student’s schedule. A great resource is the Define it sections that define the words that can sometimes be difficult to understand.

Overall this is a good devotional and is easy to understand and work your way through. The look of the pages and the overall flow of the book is smooth. I will definitely recommend this to those I know who will benefit from the teachings it has to offer.


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Hand of Fate

Have you ever had a book that you just didn’t want to put down until you knew how it ended? If you like that type of book then Hand of Fate is just the one for you. Hand of Fate is a murder mystery by Lis Wiehl and April Henry that leads you on the journey to find out who killed Jim Fate. This is the second book in the Triple threat club series. The Triple threat club is a group of three women, Nicole is an FBI Agent, Cassidy is a TV Crime Reporter and Allison is a Federal Prosecutor.

The beginning of the novel jumps around a bit if you are not familiar with the triple threat club, as you need to learn who each lady is and what they do. Once you get your bearings straight on the characters, you start to weave your way through the tale, trying to find the murderer. The ladies in this novel face real dilemmas and that alone makes you feel as if they are real people that you can relate too.

I definitely would recommend Hand of Fate to anyone who likes murder mystery novels. I read the whole book in one weekend and it would have been a lot faster if not for work and sleep getting in the way. It should be pointed out that this is a book written from a Christian perspective but is more of a general fiction novel.





Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com http://booksneeze.com/ book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”