Reviews by Mike Gothard
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The Language of Love & Respect (Reviewed 11/19/2009)Dr. Emerson Eggerichs’ book, The Language of Love & Respect, is nothing short of mini-multi-marriage counseling sessions packaged in 350 pages. While the acrostics and steps and cycles were slightly cumbersome to wade through, the book was quite thorough in addressing what many consider the most ...
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Find Your Strongest Life (Reviewed 10/5/2009)What Marcus Buckingham writes, I read. Few authors so consistently challenge and help readers to rethink their paradigms, not only in leadership but in life. His focus on developing our strengths as opposed to obsessing over our weaknesses has been such a breeze of grace for readers and leaders alike. Yet even after half a dozen ...
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Fearless (Reviewed 9/8/2009)It’s like Christmas morning whenever Max Lucado writes a new book! His newest, Fearless, is being released today and it does not disappoint. Some books are hyped and promoted and the let down upon reading them is not unlike the let down of some Christmas mornings when we were kids and that new motorcycle, pony, or ...
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What's He Really Thinking? (Reviewed 9/2/2009)Okay, I’m a man. So why is a man reviewing a book that so obviously targets women? To spare you my mid-life introspective ponderings, suffice to say I was simply curious as to whether a woman could come close to understanding and describing what a man like me thinks and feels. Conclusion? She hit so many ...
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Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl (Reviewed 7/14/2009)While following a slight semblance of organized thought, at times Wilson appears to comfortably write with a kind of stream of consciousness flow while at other times he seems to try really hard to morph into a clone of Rob Bell. I found myself simultaneously happy and mad, clear and confused, tracking and lost all ...
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Between Wyomings (Reviewed 6/17/2009)Ken Mansfield’s book, Between Wyomings – My God and an iPod on the Open Road, is an interesting read. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part rock-and-roll history, part something else that I can’t quite put my finger on, Between Wyomings has a strange and unexpected appeal as we follow his ...
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Put Your Dream To The Test (Reviewed 5/27/2009)A round brilliant cut diamond has 58 facets – 32 on the crown, 24 on the pavilion, the table counts as one and the culet counts as one. Such is every John Maxwell book, especially Put Your Dream to the Test. He approaches the topic of pursuing your dreams from every facet imaginable. Maxwell defines a ...
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Christianity in Crisis: The 21st Century (Reviewed 3/20/2009)I remember reading Christianity in Crisis when it was published in 1993, thinking, “Finally, someone has written a biblical, researched, challenging response to the growing Faith movement.” However, as a young pastor less than three years out of seminary, ...
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This Is Your Brain On Joy (Reviewed 3/5/2009)“Much of what we are assuming is volitional sin is not. It is neither the person’s fault nor his parent’s fault: it is his brain makeup!” I’m not sure I could imagine a more provocative statement than this made by Dr. Earl ...
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Think and Make It Happen (Reviewed 1/7/2009)Think and Make It Happen? Upon first glance, the title smacks of the Norman Vincent Peale “power of positive thinking” tangent that quasi-religious folks so wanted to embrace during the middle of the last century. However, Cury seems to have gone a step or two beyond “positive thinking” in both scope and depth. I found his ...
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For The Tough Times (Reviewed 12/19/2008)I read the first of many Max Lucado books in 1986. No Wonder They Call Him Savior was unlike anything I had ever experienced. It was conversational. It was fresh and invigorating. It was wordsmithed rather than written. It was obvious Lucado cared as much about individual words and phrases ...
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The Truth About You (Reviewed 12/12/2008)Let me clarify at the outset – I was prepared to not like The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success. For those who know me this will come as a surprise because I’m constantly recommending Buckingham’s other books. Why doubts about his newest? I hate the “story” fad whereby CEOs, ...
