Reviews by John Hollandsworth, MD
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Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl (Reviewed 11/12/2009)If you’ve never ridden on one, a tilt-a-whirl is an old carnival ride where you have these wild turns and spins that sometimes make you smile, sometimes take your breath away, and sometimes make you nauseated. On the whole, it’s an enjoyable jaunt, but after a while it seems like you keep going around ...
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Find Your Strongest Life (Reviewed 10/5/2009)Marcus Buckingham has bad news: it’s tough to be a woman. But he also has good news: every woman can surmount her challenges and live a full life by listening to, living in, and being led by her strengths. This is Buckingham’s latest book on the subject of strengths, and it is directly targeted towards women. He ...
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Reviewed 9/29/2009)“Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.” That single insight, from the first page of the book, effectively distills the wisdom of 288 pages down into one sentence. In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller writes of how collaborating on a screenplay based on his life ...
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Fearless (Reviewed 9/8/2009)Fear. Everyone knows that name. You can see it on the face of a startled infant; you can see it in the eyes of a dying man. Fear is one of the inescapable consequences of being human. Or is it? Is it possible to live without fear? Max Lucado says we can fight fear, and learn to live without its ...
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Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions (Reviewed 6/6/2009)I received a review copy of Nelson’s Illustrated Guide to Religions, eager to have a current resource for relevant information about world religions from a Christian perspective. This large (800+pages) book has information on a variety of world religions, from Baha’i to Witchcraft. It also ...
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The Noticer (Reviewed 5/4/2009)Perspective. When you’re facing a crisis, having someone tell you that you need “perspective” sounds trite, simplistic, and/or offensive. You don’t need perspective, you need what’s wrong to be right. However, once you gain perspective, you look back and realize it ...
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This Is Your Brain On Joy (Reviewed 2/16/2009)
Can knowing if your cingulate gyrus is overactive change your whole life? Can the right drug or herb do more than just cover up depression or anxiety, but actually restore & heal the brain? Can physical dysfunction in the brain rob a committed Christian of the joy that is possible in Christ? If you read this book, you’ll ...
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Billy (Reviewed 2/4/2009)
Billy Graham remains one of the most iconic figures of our age: a man who has loved & devotedly followed Jesus Christ and worked his entire life to make Him known, while keeping his integrity & humility intact. Any book that shared his early life & crisis of faith would be a worthwhile read. Or so ...
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The Faith of Barack Obama (Reviewed 8/20/2008)
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