Reviews by sallycat04
Reclaiming Love
On 6/13 sallycat04 wrote: Reclaiming Love: Radical relationships in a complex world by Ajith Fernando is a book about making Love your first priority. This book is an amazing collection of thoughts about how love can revolutionize everything. Forgiveness, bitterness, envy, contempt, etc can all be fixed if we learn ... Book Review: Reclaiming Love
Intentional Walk
On 6/5 sallycat04 wrote: Intentional Walk; An Inside Look at the Faith That Drives the St. Louis Cardinals by Rob Rains is a collection of short stories and biographies of St Louis Cardinals players, coaches, and staff and how their life has been effected by their faith. It is amazing how many Godly men have walked onto ... Book Review: Intentional Walk
Bittersweet
On 5/2 sallycat04 wrote: Bittersweet: A Savage Memoir by George Savage is just that, his memoir. In this book George talks about everything in his life; family, growing up, jobs, cars, places traveled, and medical issues. There is very little that he does not cover in this book.I was very surprised about how ... Book Review: Bittersweet: A Savage Memoir
Simply Delicious Amish Cooking
On 5/1 sallycat04 wrote: Simply Delicious Amish Cooking by Sherry Gore is a wonderful collection of Amish recipes from Northern Florida. I cannot wait to try all of them. The cookbook includes categories like breakfasts, seafood, meat, sides, desserts, and breads. This cookbook contains over 300 recipes.Sherry Gore has ... Book Review: Simply Delicious Amish Cooking
Seven Men
On 4/25 sallycat04 wrote: Seven Men and the Secret of their greatness by Eric Metaxas include seven short biographies of great Christian men in history. The men included in the book were George Washington, William Wilberforce, Eric Liddell, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jackie Robinson, Pope John Paul II, and Charles W. Colson. ... Book Review: 7 men
4 Abundant Life
On 4/24 sallycat04 wrote: 4 Abundant Life by Drs. Eric and Joanna Oestmann is a book about examining your life and looking at the true questions of how is God trying to bless you and you are getting in the way? These blessing can be in every area of our life.Spiritual- Are you trying to earn salvation instead of accepting ... Book Review: 4 Abundant Life
What's Your Mark
On 4/24 sallycat04 wrote: I was supposed to read and review What’s Your Mark by Jeremy Cowart but I never received the book. Usually when you receive a paperback book it takes 1-2 weeks to arrive at my house. Currently I am 23 days in with no book. More frustrating is that I have emailed the company multiple times ... Book Review
Persecuted
On 3/25 sallycat04 wrote: I recently had the opportunity to read Persecuted; the global assault on Christians by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, and Nina Shea. This is a heart wrenching book of real stories of people all over the world who are being persecuted for their religious beliefs in Christ. It is a reminder that ... Book Review: Persecuted
BATHSHEBA Bathed in Grace
On 3/15 sallycat04 wrote: Bathsheba bathed in Grace by Carol Cook is 8 stories of women in the bible from their view. Carol eloquently retells the stories of Bathsheba, Rachel, Leah, Sara, Hagar, Tamar, and Eve.I loved this book. Ill repeat it, Loved this book. Carol Cook did an amazing job at retelling these well-known ... Book Review: Bathsheba bathed in Grace
Moon Over Edisto
On 3/7 sallycat04 wrote: The book Moon Over Edisto by Beth Webb Hart is about Julia, an artist living in NYC who does everything in life to not look into the past. But when her ex best friend/stepmother comes to see her, her life is turned upside down. Her old friend has lung cancer and asks her to watch her three children ... Book Review: Moon Over Edisto
More Than a Bucket List
On 1/16 sallycat04 wrote: More than a bucket list: Making your dreams, passions, and faith a reality by Toni Birdsong is a list of suggestions on how to make a bucket list or how to live a life that is full and intentional. The suggestions range from visiting the holy land to eating every flavor of bon-bon. ... Book Review: More than a bucket list
Dark Eyes, Deep Eyes
On 1/15 sallycat04 wrote: Dark Eyes, Deep Eyes by T. Neal Tarver is two stories of two people’s journey; one to heaven and the other to hell. Wayne was pastor who felt like he failed God and God failed him when his church didn’t take the direction he felt led. He ended up leaving the church and working in a factory. ... Book Review: Dark Eyes Deep Eyes
The 5 Money Personalities
On 1/4 sallycat04 wrote: The Five Money personalities; speaking the same love and money language by Scott and Bethany Palmer is an insightful book for couples with money issues. Not “we don’t have enough money” issues but conflicts in how to (and not to) spend money. It looks at how each person look and feels ... Book Review: the five money personalities
An Amish Kitchen
On 1/3 sallycat04 wrote: I always love reading Amish stories. Sometimes the plot lines are a little dry but not in this book. An Amish Kitchen by Beth Wiseman, Kelly Long, and Amy Clipston are three stories on three different women in an Amish community in Paradise, PA. Fern is the local herbalist in her Amish ... Book Review: The Amish Kitchen
20,000 Days and Counting
On 1/2 sallycat04 wrote: 20,000 Days and counting by Robert D. Smith is an inspirational book on doing things in your life instead of letting life pass you by.I have been alive for 11,197 days. Although I have done a lot on those days, I could have done so much more. This book helps you look at your life and what ... Book Review: 20,000 days and counting
Asylum
On 1/2 sallycat04 wrote: West Bow publishing describes The Asylum by Ashley HodgesBazer as“When Chase’s wife, Trista, goes missing, he follows a trail that leads to imprisonment on a space-based facility for the insane. Chase leads a revolt against the doctors and takes control. Other circumstances bring Trista to the ship, ... Book Review: Asylum
Fire Prophet
On 11/15 sallycat04 wrote: Another Great installment in the series!! The Fire Prophet by Jerel Law continues the story of Jonah and Eliza with their amazing journey and adventures as quarter angels. This time there is a worldwide attack on all quarter angels. Jonah and Eliza, along with their younger brother ... Book Review: Fire Prophet
Isle of Shadows
On 11/14 sallycat04 wrote: The isle of Shadows by Tracy Higley is a story of Tessa, the most famous courtesan on the island. She hates her life with her current partner Glaucus. When he unexpectedly dies from an accident, she sees it as her way of attaining freedom. With the help of two unsuspecting servants ... Book Review: Isle of Shadows
A Marriage of the Heart
On 10/26 sallycat04 wrote: The Marriage of the Heart, Three Novellas by Kelly Long contains the stories The Perfect Secret, Christmas Cradles, and A Marriage of the Heart. The first novella, the Perfect Secret, was in another Kelly Long novella book, An Amish Wedding. I enjoyed it then and I enjoyed rereading it now.Christmas ... Book Review: Marriage of the Hearts
Darkness Rising
On 10/26 sallycat04 wrote: Darkness Rising by Lis Whiel and Pete Nelson is the second book in the Salem Series. I read the first book a while back and love it. I was so excited to see a second one was available. I got a copy of it as quickly as I could.This book picked up right where the last one left off. ... Book Review: Darkness Rising
The River
On 9/5 sallycat04 wrote: The River by Michael Neale had me with the first chapter. This is the kind of book that you start and cannot put down. I could have read it all night (if I didn’t have to work in the morning). Gabriel Clark was born and raised around the river. His father was a white water instructor and spent all ... Amazing STory
The Scent of Rain
On 8/22 sallycat04 wrote: The Scent of Rain by Kristin Billerbeck is a fun Christian Romantic Comedy about Daphne. Daphne quit her job at the number one perfumery in Paris as a “nose” to move back the US to marry her fiancé Mark and move to Ohio. When Mark leaves her at the altar, takes her old job, and puts question ... Book Review: The scent of rain
You Be Sweet
On 8/16 sallycat04 wrote: YEA for more cookbooks!!!!You be sweet: Sharing your heart one down-home recipe at a time by Patsy Caldwell and Amy Lyles Wilson is a great compilation of yummy desserts. There are many I am very excited about trying. The ones I have my eye on most is the red velvet cheesecake, caramel pie, graham ... Book Review: You Be Sweet
The Death by Money Report
On 8/16 sallycat04 wrote: The Death by Money report by CFP Tracy Piercy and Lisa Maxwell is more of a small essay then a book. The book took me approximately 20 minutes to read. It goes over how people struggle between the saving everything to have a comfortable retirement and instant gratification of purchases now ... Book Review: The death by money report
10 Christians Everyone Should Know
On 8/15 sallycat04 wrote: 10 Christians everyone should know by John Perry is a series of mini biographies of great people in history including ST Patrick, Galileo, Ann Bradstreet, John Bunyan, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jane Austen, D.L. Moody, George Washington Carver, Sargent York, and William F. Buckley Jr. Each story tells ... Book Review: 10 Christians Everyone Should know
The MoneySmart Family System
On 8/14 sallycat04 wrote: This book is different than the ones I normally read for booksneese. The Money Smart Family System by Steve and Annette Economides is a book about their system used in teaching their children about money. Steve and Annette are known books and discussions on money management living on less than ... book review: The Money Smart Family System
This Scarlet Cord
On 8/8 sallycat04 wrote: I thoroughly enjoyed this last book. The Scarlet Cord; the love story of Rahab by Joan Wolf is a wonderful interpretation of the Rahab story. I have always been fascinated by this story and wondered where her intrigue into a different live and God came from the existence as a Canaanite. ... Book Review: The Scarlet Cord
Through Rushing Water
On 6/26 sallycat04 wrote: Through Rushing Water by Catherine Richmond is a wonderful story about a young woman, Sophia, who makes a rash decision in the sight of tragedy. When Sophia (and the entire college she works at) presumes a young man will ask for her hand in marriage, they are all shocked when he asks her roommate instead. ... Book Review: Through Rushing Water
Spirit Fighter
On 5/24 sallycat04 wrote: Spirit Fighter by Jerel Law is a preteen teen Christian adventure book about Jonah Stone, a sixth grader who is average in every way until he finds out that he is a quarter angel. Soon after when his mother is kidnapped by evil fallen angels Jonah and his younger sister Eliza are sent on a quest ... Book Review: Spirit Fighter
Garden of Madness
On 5/22 sallycat04 wrote: Garden of Madness by Tracy Higley is a fictional telling of King Nebuchadnezzer and his daughter Tiamat. When the king is turned into a mad man because of a prophecy and his pride, Tiamat is left without a father. Seven years later when her husband dies she is thrown into a twisted plot of power, ... Book Review: Garden of Madness
Crazy Dangerous
On 5/16 sallycat04 wrote: Crazy Dangerous is a story of a teenage boy, Sam Hopkins, who makes the worst mistake of his life and then has to suffer through the consequences. He gets into the wrong crowd, beaten up, blamed for murder, and becomes the friend of a strange girl no one else believes. Through all of this ... Book Review: Crazy Dangerous
Simply Grilling
On 3/22 sallycat04 wrote: Another Great Cook Book!!!Simply Grilling by Jennifer Chandler is a cookbook meant to make grilling simply and inviting. Tons of recipes cover everything from appetizer to dessert.I really enjoyed looking through this cookbook and have marked many recipes to try. I was especially excited about the salad ... Book Review: Simply Grilling
Farm Fresh Southern Cooking
On 3/21 sallycat04 wrote: Farm Fresh Southern Cooking by Tammy Algood is a wonderful cookbook full of recipes that use lots of locally available produce. Her desire is to get people out of the grocery stores and shop at local farmers markets and with local farmers. She also discusses briefly how to eat seasonally and preserve ... Book Review: Farm Fresh Southern Cooking
The 13th Tribe
On 3/20 sallycat04 wrote: The 13th Tribe by Robert Liparulo is a book about a group of people left to roam the world and never die because of a decision they made a long time ago. Thousands of years ago Moses went onto Mount Sinai to commune with God and receive the 10 commandments. While he was up there the Israelites got restless ... Book Review: The 13th Tribe
Eyes of Justice
On 3/13 sallycat04 wrote: They have done it again. Eye of Justice by Lis Wiehl and April Henry is the sad story and loss of a third of the triple threat club. When Cassidy Shaw is murdered, Allison and Nicole want to help and are blocked at every point. Only with the help of private investigator Ophelia do things start to make ... Book Review: Eyes of Justice
The Wedding Dress
On 3/9 sallycat04 wrote: The Wedding dress by Rachel Hauck is a wonderful story about a wedding dress and four amazing stories of love.One day when Charlotte is driving around trying to think and she finds herself at an estate auction where she buys a trunk for $1000. Soon after that her life is turned upside down. Her fiancée ... Book Review: The wedding dress
Simple Secrets to a Happy Life
On 3/6 sallycat04 wrote: I first have to say I have never met Luci, I have never heard her speak and this is the only book of hers I have read (so far) but I want to be her friend. The way she looks at life, friendships, what she has determined important in the world is amazing. A lot of the ideas in this book everyone knows ... Amazing book from an amazing women
Constantly Craving
On 2/28 sallycat04 wrote: Constantly craving by Marilyn Meberg are always craving something more. Some times we realize it and sometimes we don’t.Example: At age 5, Marilyn’s next-door neighbor (same age) was sure she would rather live in Marilyn’s house because she was an only child and the house would be quiet. Marilyn ... Book Review: Constantly Craving.
Our Favorite Sins
On 2/27 sallycat04 wrote: Our favorite Sins by Todd Hunter is a self-help type book where he teaches you to look at the sins your heart desires. Weather sex, money, love, pride, food, drink, anxiety, etc it all shows where our heart and out focus is.Todd helps you understand how to control these desires and refocus our hearts ... Book Review: Our Favorite Sins
The Jesus We Missed
On 1/25 sallycat04 wrote: I tried to read the Jesus We Missed by Patrick Henry Reardon but was unable to ever get the book to download. When you read and write reviews for booksneeze the only way to get another book is to post the web address for your reviews. So here is my review..The website wasn't working and I could not get ... Book Review (Kind of)
Heart of Ice (trade paper)
On 1/25 sallycat04 wrote: Heart of Ice is Lis Whiel and April Henry is a suspenseful crime novel about three women who call themselves the triple threat; a FBI agent, prosecutor, and crime TV reporter. These three women help each other with their jobs and with personal life. The book also involves Elizabeth a women who lie, cheats, ... Book Review: Heart of Ice
First Date
On 1/9 sallycat04 wrote: First Date by Krista McGee is a cute book for teens about a girl, Addy, who gets picked to be on a reality TV show competing to be the prom date of the President's son. Addy is not one for attention and glamour. She is a quiet girl focused on good grades and making it to an ivy league school. Though ... Great book for teens
This Thing of Ours
On 1/6 sallycat04 wrote: This thing of Ours: How Faith saved my Mafia Marriage by Camille Franzese is the story of Cammy and her dating a man named Michael. Later they were married and had children. What Cammy didn't really know was that Michael was the son of Sonny Franzese, head of the Colombo Mafia family. As Michael was ... Book Review: This Thing of Ours
Smitten
On 12/15 sallycat04 wrote: Smitten: Love is one the way is four novellas in one book written by best friends Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Diann Hunt, and Denise Hunter. These four best friends write a series of novellas about four best friends who live in a small town named Smitten. When the local factory closes, the future ... Book Review: Smitten
An Amish Wedding
On 12/1 sallycat04 wrote: An Amish Wedding by Kelly Long, Kathleen Fuller, and Beth Wiseman is a book put together of three novellas telling three wedding stories of different people in an Amish community. The three stories are about the stresses of courtship, engagement, and planning a wedding. The three authors did a great ... Book Review: An Amish Wedding
The Grace Effect
On 11/15 sallycat04 wrote: The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief by Larry Alex Taunton is a story about the Taunton family's struggles through an Ukrainian adoption. After a mission trip to the Ukraine, Larry Taunton's family was lead to adopt a girl from a Ukrainian orphanage who had ... Book review: The Grace Effect
The Encounter
On 10/25 sallycat04 wrote: The Encounter: Sometimes God Has to Intervene by Steve Arterburn is a 140 page fictional story (based on two true stories) about a successful man who's life is falling apart because of his resentment of his mother for abandoning him when he was 4 years old. To fulfil a promise to his friend/counselor/pastor, ... Book Review: The Encounter
One Call Away
On 10/25 sallycat04 wrote: One Call Away: Answering Life's Challenges with Unshakable Faith by Brenda Warner is the life story of Brenda Warner, wife of NFL MVP Kurt Warner. She tells her life story from childhood to now. Her story of loss, love, life changes, and challenges physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Her story ... Book Review: One Call Away
His Steadfast Love
On 10/20 sallycat04 wrote: His Steadfast Love by Golden Keyes Parsons is a book about a young Southern Belle named Amanda. she lives on the coast of Texas with her family. She meets a Union soldier. She is torn between a new love with the union soldier and the love of her family. Along with the conflict of Confederates vs Union ... Book Review: His Steadfast Love
Afraid to Believe in Free Will
On 10/10 sallycat04 wrote: I received a free copy of Carl Begley's "Afraid to Believe in Free Will: The human Tendency to Avoid Responsibility from Free Choices."I have to say I found this book really (really really really) hard to read. I can tell that Dr Begley is a very educated man and had a lot to say. It is also very evident ... Book Review:Afraid to Believe in Free Will
Waking Hours
On 10/3 sallycat04 wrote: Waking Hours by Liehl and Pete Nelson is a thriller book about a murder and odd occurances happening in East Salem, NY. Dani is a foresenis phychiatrist working for the DA office when the murder of teenage girl occurs During her investigation is runs into her teenage crush Tommy. Together they try and ... Book Review: Waking Hours
Night Night Blessings
On 9/28 sallycat04 wrote: This is a really cute childrens book.Normally my book reviews are about non-fiction books I get from booksneeze.com. This time I wanted to try 2 new things; 1) online version read thru a kindle reader for PC, and 2) getting a childrens book that Hannah and Titus could enjoy.I was hoping to get this on ... Book Review: Night Night Blesssings
The Story of the Bible
On 9/23 sallycat04 wrote: About 6 months ago I got a copy of "The Story of the Bible: The Fascinating History of Its Writing, Translation & Effect on Civilization" by Larry Stone. I immediately started reading the book and looking at the amazing documents and papers inside and was fascinated. Then life got a little crazy ... Book Review: The Story of the Bible
Read and Share: The Ultimate DVD Bible - Volume 2
On 1/31 sallycat04 wrote: I have to first say that my sister Annie got me started on this series of movies. We got the Christmas story from her a year ago and love it. I was very excited when I had the opportunity to review this book and DVD.The book is very well written. They take 20 or so stories from the bible and write them ... Book Review: Read and Share: The Ultimate DVD Bible, Volume 2
The Jesus Inquest
On 1/13 sallycat04 wrote: The single event that most defines Christianity is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, fulfilling the prophesy of the ultimate sacrifice. Throughout history this event has been a subject of heated debate for both Christians and non-believers. Did it happen? Is the shroud of Turin really Jesus’ shroud? ... The Jesus Inquest by Charles Foster
Tithing
On 12/23 sallycat04 wrote: This book was pretty good. This book includes ~20 interviews with people in ministry leadership roles from all walks of life. He interviews liberal church pastors, conservative church pastors, rabbis, poor, rich, old, younger, etc. Although they are all from different walks of life and have very different ... Tithing: Test me in this by Douglas Lablanc
The Treasure of God's Word
On 10/28 sallycat04 wrote: The treasure of God's Word; Celebrating four hundred years of the King James Bible by Jack Countryman is a great gift or book to display on a coffee table. He has categorized some of the best verses into great, easy to decipher categories such as love, compassion, patience, etc. Each category has five ... Book Review: The Treasure of God's Word
Your Money God's Way
On 9/29 sallycat04 wrote: "Your money God's Way: Overcoming the seven money myths that keep Christians broke" is a great book about the 7 myths that cause Christians to not be financially successful. The myths or counterfeit convictions include -God is an ATM, The Scarlett syndrome, savior or enabler, and the self righteous ... Book Review: Your Money God's Way by Amie Streater
Wild at Heart (Revised and Expanded)
On 8/23 sallycat04 wrote: This is a wonderful book. The Author, John Eldredge, does a great job describing the need for men to be masculine. How are the physical embodiment of God's masculine side. He describes their need for "adventure." He also looks at the loss of "becoming a man" in today's society by the lack of fatherhood ... Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Mans Soul by John Eldredge
Lies the Government Told You
On 6/28 sallycat04 wrote: This book is about the 17 top lies the government has passed onto the American people including that "all men are created equal", "its only a temporary program", and "I'm the government, and I'm here to help." He discusses how the men and women in government have warped the government to be self serving ... Book Review: Lies the Goverment Told You: Myth, Power and Deception in American History by Judge Andrew Napolitano