My name is Nichole and I am Christian, conservitive, home-schooled, and in my early-20's. I like: Sewing, anything crafty, reading, setting goals, LTBC, webdesign, html, etc... I dislike: Olives, know-it-alls, people leaving milk in thier cereal bowl, etc... You can find out more about me by reading my blog and exploring my website.
Behind Rebel Lines
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted by Nichole | Category: BooksComments Off
Book: Behind Rebel Lines
Author: Seymour Reit
Published: 1988
Genre: Biography
Finished: February 8, 2008
I only now realized that I had finished this book and never written a review for it. So here it is. Better late than never. This book is a true story about a Civil War spy named Emma Edmonds. It is a short book and an action packed read. I love reading stories about women who stand up and in this case literally fight for what they believe in. It is a captivating book and Emma’s spunk will enchant. An excellent book.
Dangerous Wonder
February 5th, 2008 | Posted by Nichole | Category: BooksNo Comments
Book: Dangerous Wonder
Author: Michael Yaconelli
Published: 1998
Genre: Christian Living
Finished: February 5, 2008
I think one of the main things I got out of this book and one of the most challenging things was that we need to surrender ourselves to the love of God. Abandon ourselves in him as a child who comes to the Father. Nothing we can ever do will make God love us any more or any less. He loves us as we are and asks us to come to him with child-like faith and sit at his feet. That is something that I need everyday. Remember that I don’t earn his love. My “works” are nothing. They are worthless. He just wants me to come to him so that he can poor out his love on me. “Childlike faith is for ordinary people. People like you and me who know our flaws only too well. We are familiar with our inconsistencies and our unsaintliness and understand the good news of the gospel - Jesus Christ liberates us from the oppression of our ordinariness and gives us permission to trust God to make us extraordinary.”
“One day we shall all be gathered in that great concert hall of God, and we will hear the glorious beauty of the concerto God was playing while you and I plunked out our childlike version of “Chopsticks.”
Fresh-Brewed Life
January 22nd, 2008 | Posted by Nichole | Category: BooksNo Comments
Book: Fresh-Brewed Life
Author: Nicole Johnson
Published: 1999
Genre: Women | Christian Living
Finished: January 22, 2008
This was a great book. Nicole Johnson speaks with a lot of candor about some of the real life challenges we as women face and challenges us to wake up, smell the coffee, and life a fresh life. The nine chapters and nine points in this book were; 1. Surrender to God, 2. Encounter Your Journal, 3. Listen to Your Longings, 4. Embrace Your Beauty, 5. Interview Your Anger, 6. Savor Your Sexuality, 7. Celebrate Your Friendships, 8. Change Your World, and 9. Enrich Your Friendships. Some of those points I thought that I could check off as yes I do that. But Nicole challenges you to take each one of those steps farther than you are. Each point deserves its own time to let it sink in. And of course to apply it. This is a book that will stay on my shelf and be read again sometime in the future.
The Sword of Truth
January 15th, 2008 | Posted by Nichole | Category: BooksNo Comments
Book: The Sword of Truth
Author: Gilbert Morris
Published: 1994
Genre: Historical Fiction
Finished: January 15, 2008
I have read a lot of Gilbert Morris books and have really liked all of them. His stories are always interesting and I read some where that most of the love stories are based off of real love stories of people he has known. This book I had read before, I’ve read the whole series before, but when I got it for our church library from paperback swap I decided to pick it up and read it again as fun read. The book is a little long however for a typical fun read. I ended up getting most of the way through it and then setting it aside for a while. It doesn’t help that it is broken up into parts which make it convenient to stop at the end of a part. LOL.
I did enjoy the book though. It is set in the time of King Henry VIII and William Tyndale. I find that time of history particularly fascinating. A couple themes in the book that I like was Myles coming to realize that infatuation does not equal true love, and the strong faith of the women in his life. Here is a quote about Lady Jane, Myles’ step mother towards the end of the book, “She had always seen her walk with God as a great adventure that was not only spiritual but also a tangible, visible, exciting daily experience. She was totally confident that, no matter how dark the day, God’s sunshine lay just beyond, and waiting until the day came was of no consequence, for God was in the shadows as well.” Being able to see God in the shadows of life as well as in the sunshine. Wow. Challenging isn’t it?
Mere Christianity
January 13th, 2008 | Posted by Nichole | Category: BooksNo Comments
Book: Mere Christianity
Author: C.S. Lewis
Published: 1952
Genre: Religion
Finished: January 13, 2008
Clive Staples Lewis. One of the great writers of Christianity. Did you know he set out to disprove Christianity? So did Lee Strobel and Josh McDowell. And those stories are so encouraging to me in my faith because it proves to me that you can be the strongest atheist and set out to disprove God, God in his infinite grace will reveal himself to you even though you did not want to find him.
The book Mere Christianity was a great read. It starts with Human Nature in a broad sense and ends with New Man in a Christian sense and covers many many topics relating to religion and Christianity in between. I underlined so many things! If you read this book I recommend getting your own copy. There are so many gems hidden in this book.
This quote at the end challenged me and made me look at my own life and who I am pursuing, myself or Christ? “Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”