When I was asked to review Boundaries in Dating by Henry Cloud and John Townsend, I jumped at the opportunity, hoping to be both challenged and affirmed. After all, I’m always game to glean additional information about healthy dating relationships for my future. I did learn some things. I was challenged on certain topics. And…
Have you ever noticed that the Bible begins and ends with a marriage? Near the beginning of Genesis with Adam and Eve we witness the first uniting of a man and woman by God. In Revelation, Jesus returns and we experience a wedding between the Church (the bride) and Jesus (the bridegroom). John and Stasi…
If the echoing theme in the first half of Born to Deliver, was loneliness, the second half is indisputably adoption. Kathy Brace’ story opens with the agonizing birth of her first child when she is fifteen years old. Within hours, her son was stripped from her arms and given up for adoption. Her young heart had…
Maybe the most compelling story isn’t the one we identify with, but the one that breaks our hearts. It’s the story we pray never comes true. The book, Born to Deliver, is the personal story of Kathy Brace and the slow, painful, permanent way that Jesus drew her to Himself. At the tender age of fifteen, Brace…
It’s so relieving to read a book by authors who don’t pretend to be smarter than you are. It’s not so relieving to read a book that scratches the scabs off of ordinary relationship issues. Wounds you’d rather let heal on their own. Beyond Ordinary by Justin and Trisha Davis is not a title that jumps…
