Choose and Choose Again by J. Kevin Butcher A Review

ABOUT CHOOSE AND CHOOSE AGAIN
In Choose and Choose Again, the reader will encounter story after story of different people, most of whom are from Hope Community Church of Detroit, where Pastor Butcher has been sharing the healing love of God for thirteen years. They represent men and women, African American, Caucasian, Latino, and Asian, urban and suburban, professional types and prostitutes, clergy and addicts, drunks and lawyers and convicts—wounded human beings who have found themselves empty, dying, and longing to be filled.

The stories are not only about their own healing and restoration but also about how the love of God heals. Butcher hopes that readers will find before them a path of healing that they feel compelled to embrace. He begins with his own story of emptiness and despair, and his journey to healing, but the ultimate power of his message is that this healing journey is for anyone who is willing to own his or her emptiness and hold one’s heart out to God, who is desperately longing to love each person all the way home.

File Size: 1871 KB
Print Length: 269 pages
Publisher: NavPress (October 1, 2016)
Publication Date: October 1, 2016
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01CYRNO72

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J. Kevin Butcher is the lead pastor of Hope Community Church of Detroit, a messy fellowship of human beings from every racial, economic, and educational background imaginable—with one thing in common: They own their emptiness and pursue healing through the love of God in Jesus Christ. Butcher has written numerous articles and has spoken around the world about the love of Christ. He is married to Carla and has three grown daughters, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.


MY REVIEW
  Choose and Choose Again by J. Kevin Butcher is a very good book. He tells stories of all different kinds of people in all different kinds of lives. All are lonely and searching, every if they have everything here on earth they still are searching for the mighty love of our Father in heaven.
  You will read and experience how they lives have changed when they realize that God loves them and is always with them. Some of the people grew up with horrible lives, horrible parents and horrible things happened to them, but some grew up with seemly normal, happy lives. They all are lacking the love or understanding of a parent, both mothers and fathers. All children need that and when they don’t have it they don’t know how to react to God the Father the lover of all.
  Very interesting read and I recommend it.

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Becoming a Woman of Influence by Carol Kent~A Review

ABOUT BECOMING A WOMAN OF INFLUENCE

Description: Women have the power to influence others, whether we're trained leaders or not. Discover 7 principles for building solid relationships through simple steps to mentoring from author and speaker Carol Kent.

• 9 lessons


Becoming a Woman of Influence
ISBN-13: 9781576839331
Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
Cover: Paperback
224 Pages

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carol Kent is hilariously funny, biblically sound, and heartbreakingly transparent in person and in print. Founder and president of Speak Up for Hope (a prison ministry) and Speak Up Speaker Services (a speakers' bureau), Carol is the best-selling author of many books, including When I Lay My Isaac Down, A New Kind of Normal, Becoming a Woman of Influence, Speak Up with Confidence, Secret Longings of the Heart, and Tame Your Fears. She is an expert on public speaking, writing, and evangelism. Carol travels the world, speaking to tens of thousands each year at events such as Extraordinary Women, Vision New England, Women of Faith, THRIVE, and Women of Grace. Carol and her husband, Gene, make their home in Florida.

MY REVIEW
This book is mainly about older Christian women becoming mentors to younger Christian women. Becoming a Woman of Influence has nine chapters and they are Impacting Live Like Jesus Did, Learning from the Master, The Principle of Time Alone with God, The Principle of Walking and Talking, The Principle of Storytelling, The Principle of Asking Questions, The Principle of Compassion, The Principle of Unconditional Love, The Principle of Casting Vision. Then after those chapters comes a Nine-week Bible Study.
This book shows us if we just follow Jesus’ example and do what He did we will be doing the right thing.
Here is three facts from the book that really jumped out at me.
1. One person (Jesus) trained twelve human beings who went on th so influence th world that time itself is now recorded as being before or after His existence.
2. This person (Jesus) worked with a staff that was totally human and not divine… a staff that in spite of illiteracy, questionable backgrounds, fractious feelings, and momentary cowardice went on to accomplish the tasks He trained them to do. They did this for one man the reason-to be with Him again.
3.His leadership style was intended to be put to use by any of us.
So the author is saying we can mentor twelve people and get fantastic results also.
Very good book that I believe would be an interest if you want to start a program like this or have someone older mentor you.



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Don't Waste the Pain by David Lyons and Linda Lyons Richardson

ABOUT: DON'T WASTE THE PAIN

Don't Waste the Pain Learning to Grow Through Suffering by David Lyons and Linda Lyons Richardson
Everyone experiences pain in their lives. But how we handle it and what we do with it makes all the difference.

In Don’t Waste the Pain , you'll see how two people dealing with life-threatening illnesses and the loss of a child found joy and peace in the midst of their suffering.

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ISBN-13: 9781615215485

Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

Cover: Paperback

272 Pages

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

LINDA RICHARDSON is a former merchandise-display artist and garden gift shop owner, now retired. She often works in her own quarter-acre garden when she is able. Other favorite pastimes include hiking the waterside peninsula where she lives with her husband, lying in her hammock, cooking, writing, and reading whatever she can find. She has two children, one in grad school and one in college. Living with cancer is a day-to-day adventure she puts on the back burner when she can while simply enjoying the rest of her life.


DAVID LYONS is an international vice president of The Navigators. He oversees international initiatives, communications, and networking of their five thousand staff in more than one hundred countries. David loves photography and hiking in the mountains of Colorado. David and Renee have seven children. Even with so many children, they often have friends live with them and frequently have guests around their table laughing loudly or quietly discussing their questions about life.
David’s personal experience with Internet ministry led him to envision helping others to grow through their pain through this book and through www.dontwastethepain.com. Come visit the website to see how God is bringing beauty out of ashes.


MY REVIEW
This is a really wonderful non fiction book. Linda in 2000 was diagnosed with stage-IIIC clear-cell ovarian cancer and in 2008 David’s twelve-year-old son Ian was diagnosed with stage-IV alveolar rhabdomyosarcaoma, a very rare cancer that kills 98 percent of its victims. This is a very precious story that tells of Linda and Ian’s lives and that of their families. Linda and David are brother and sister whom share so much.
The chapters are:
Welcome to OZ
Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants
Oxygen
The Ragged Edge of Faith
A Thin Place
Beauty From Ashes
But The Physicians
Praying In the Face of Pain
What if God Says No?
When Will it End?
Got Joy?
The Fellowship of Suffering
Whenever pain comes into our lives we should learn from it and grow. We shouldn’t let it keep us down and depress us. No one wants to live through pain or deal with it constantly, but if that happens how will we cope and how will we continue in life?
I love the chapter called A Thin Place. It is about the times that Heaven and Earth seem so close together. Like when you are somewhere and you feel God’s presence so close. So that makes only a thin place between Heaven and Earth.
The chapter called Got Joy is talking about when you are going through pain or experience a death of a loved one do you have Joy? Sure you will be sad, depressed and sorrowful, but through all of that you can still have joy with the Lord in your life. You may question God why did that or does that happen. Do welcomes our questions and wants us to see He is there loving us and helping us through.
This book is very insightful and helpful, but also we can have pain, suffering and heartaches, but still have peace and joy. God is always there for us.
You don’t have to have a death in the family or cancer to enjoy this book. Maybe you lost your job, have family problems or marriage problems all of these chapters will be a help to you. So I really recommend this book.






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I received this book free from NavPress Publishers as part of their Blogger Review 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 Commision's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising