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Gaza Conflict 2021 | Book Review

December 13, 2021 georgepwood

Gaza Conflict 2021 charts the causes, conflicts, and consequences of the May 10–21, 2021 war between Israel and Hamas, the de facto sovereign of the Gaza Strip. Its author, Jonathan Schanzer, is senior vice president at Foundation for Defense of … Continue reading Gaza Conflict 2021 | Book Review

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Better Off Dead | Book Review

December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 georgepwood

Better Off Dead is the 26th action-and-adventure novel featuring Jack Reacher and written by Lee Child. Or rather, it is written by Lee and his younger brother Andrew Grant, who here takes the pen name of Andrew Child. This is … Continue reading Better Off Dead | Book Review

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The Dark Hours | Book Review

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 georgepwood

The Dark Hours is Michael Connelly’s 36th novel, the fourth featuring LAPD late-shift detective, Renée Ballard. In it, Ballard investigates two crimes with the help of Harry Bosch, former LAPD homicide detective, now private investigator. The first crime involves a … Continue reading The Dark Hours | Book Review

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Dolphin Junction | Book Review

December 6, 2021December 6, 2021 georgepwood

Dolphin Junction is a collection of eleven short stories by Mick Herron. Most of the stories were first published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. All of them center around mysteries, ranging from blackmail (“Proof of Love,” “What We Do”) to … Continue reading Dolphin Junction | Book Review

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Live No Lies | Book Review

October 26, 2021October 26, 2021 georgepwood

“We are at war,” writes John Mark Comer in Live No Lies. The war is neither military nor cultural, however; it is spiritual. As Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12, “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, … Continue reading Live No Lies | Book Review

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Miracles Today | Book Review

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 georgepwood

No one denies that the Bible contains accounts of miracles. Furthermore, no one denies that people claim to experience or witness miracles even today. The question is whether putative miracles are supernatural works of God or merely anomalies that await … Continue reading Miracles Today | Book Review

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Twelve Trends in Multiplication | Book Review

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 georgepwood

Church planting has been around since New Testament times. Today, however, it means more than starting a single congregation. It often means one congregation multiplying itself through other congregations. In Twelve Trends in Multiplication, Jeff Leake identifies different ways existing … Continue reading Twelve Trends in Multiplication | Book Review

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Deep Peace | Book Review

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 georgepwood

Many years ago, my mother gave me a sepia-toned lithograph of an 1896 William Strutt painting. It depicts a child leading a menagerie of animals, both predators and prey, with one hand clutching a palm branch and the other resting … Continue reading Deep Peace | Book Review

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The Declaration and the Constitution | Book Review

October 8, 2021 georgepwood

In a memorandum to himself, Abraham Lincoln used Proverbs 25:11 to describe the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. That proverb says, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” The Declaration is the … Continue reading The Declaration and the Constitution | Book Review

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Contagious Faith | Book Review

October 5, 2021October 8, 2021 georgepwood

Many Christians feel ambivalence about evangelism. On the one hand, Jesus’ good news has captured their hearts, so they want to share it. On the other hand, they are unsure how to do so. This uncertainty often arises because they … Continue reading Contagious Faith | Book Review

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