Reviews by Lisa Lickel
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Green (Reviewed 10/12/2009)This was my first attempt at reading Ted Dekker. I like sci fi and fantasy, and this story was a bit of both. The idea of tying a cycle of stories together through a book that is both a sequel and a prequel was enormously intriguing to me. Green takes place in the near future, the near past, and two ...
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The Noticer (Reviewed 9/24/2009)This book reminded me a lot of Taylor Caldwell’s old classic, The Listener, with a twist. The Noticer might be free street psychology, dispensed by a godlike figure who, in this story, is an ageless intraracial man in jeans and leather sandals, perhaps less objectionable to some than a large black ...
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Lonestar Secrets (Reviewed 9/9/2009)I was eager to read Coble’s prairie romance, Lonestar Secrets, set in Texas in the present. A young woman, Shannon Astor who was orphaned as a teen and outcast in high school, makes good and became a veterinarian on her own. A “mistake” in college left her with a daughter, the living half of a ...
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Fearless (Reviewed 9/8/2009)Lucado’s latest book tackles Christ’s message to “fear not.” I was intrigued to learn that those words far outweigh (21 examples) any other teaching, even that of love God and neighbor (8). As someone who suffered panic attacks throughout my teen years, until I had my children, and lately have ...
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The Hole in Our Gospel (Reviewed 5/14/2009)Richard Stearns, former corporate America CEO of such giants as Parker Brothers and Lenox, recounts his quest to practice his Christian faith in The Hole in Our Gospel. The premise of his journey is the answer to the question “What does God Expect of us?” Stearns, who became president of World Vision ...
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Word of Promise Next Generation New Testament MP3 Set (Reviewed 4/18/2009)With earbuds, today’s kids can listen to anything. Sounds are much more exciting when the latest technology is employed. No one has to be embarrassed about listening to a rendition of the Word of God if it’s played over your MP3 – and maybe that’s the biggest draw for the Word of Promise bible. ...
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Christianity in Crisis: The 21st Century (Reviewed 3/1/2009)
Christianity in Crisis in the 21st Century is filled with acronyms to fulfill Hanegraaff’s goal to make the book readable, complete and accurate and in a memorable format. FLAWS to describe the false teachings of those in the Faith Movement, and ABCDE to help readers find Biblical truths are certainly ...
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The Word of Promise The Gift of Psalms (Reviewed 1/19/2009)
The Word of Promise: The Gift of Psalms is a beautifully packaged gift book. It is a fifty-day non-specific devotional from the Psalms, with devotionals by Lori Jones. The book is lovely, with selected Psalms featured on the left side of the leaf, and the reading and prayer on the right. I appreciated ...
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For The Tough Times (Reviewed 1/9/2009)
Max Lucado’s For the Tough Times doesn’t need to be any longer. At 80 gift-book-sized pages, it packs enough punch that any more encouragement would be overkill. Lucado runs the gamut of the depressed soul’s questioning the Maker and Defender from “how could God do that” to the answer of “sometimes ...
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Think and Make It Happen (Reviewed 1/5/2009)
Dr. Cury’s specialty on what he terms “Thinking Correctly” is based upon his years of practice in the psychiatric field. This book is a companion using his multifocal technique. He bases his ideal of thinking correctly on the life of Christ, which he references in each chapter. Think and Make It ...
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The Unseen (Reviewed 12/15/2008)
I was definitely hooked on The Unseen by page 30 with the haunting comment: “…but no one seemed to notice him. This he knew he could count on. People looked, but they never saw.” I had recently read newspapers accounts of homeowners discovering that someone had lived in their home unbeknownst to ...
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Through the Storm (Reviewed 12/1/2008)
Spears writes an update on her exploited family which includes actress/singers Britney and Jamie Lynn. She tells her story compellingly - it's about her and her choices, not about the children. She questions her choices and challenges to do what she thought best to share her children's gifts in public ...
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Moon Shines Down (Reviewed 11/17/2008)
Margaret Wise Brown is resurrected as a master children’s story-teller, this time with the help of her fans. A prolific writer and founder of the “here and now” style in the early twentieth century, Brown’s classics feature children and animals in soft, cuddly tales with strong rhythms, begging ...
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Reflections of God's Holy Land (Reviewed 11/10/2008)
Reflections of God’s Holy Land by Eva Marie Everson and Miriam Feinberg Vamosh arrived on a day when my children were visiting. I handed the volume over to them and watched while my son and future daughter-in-law both stuck their noses in it. I asked them questions. My son told me that I had not received ...
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