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Extremely good read....!
This was even more resourceful than Attitude 101 which I thoroughly enjoyed. I like the references to the past & present leaders, the real subtleties that he makes mention of, and also the quotes he uses. The book has real substance, it's a good read, and well worth the time. Highly recommend it, whether you are a leader, or just an aspiring one.

I'm a Leader....Now What?
By:Jeffrey W. Bennett, Founder of LayMentor and author of Under the Lontar Palm...
You people talk too much.
This is a good book that is well worth it's cost. It lives up to it's title, and I benifited from reading it. ... Read more

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The Truth About Opus Dei
Whenever I have a question about the Catholic Faith, be it doctrine, dogma, or just Catholic culture I always find myself turning to Dr. Scott Hahn for answers. Whatever the subject, Dr. Hahn seems to have written about it and I feel that I can depend on him for honest answers written in a context that I or anyone else can easily understand. This book written from the perspective of an insider is no exception as the author explains the theology of the supposedly menacing and dark Opus Dei.
THE EXTRA-ORDINARY "OPUS DEI" REVEALED BY AN INSIDER!
Five BIG Stars!! Dr. Scott Hahn, the awesome Christian author and idealogue, reveals the theology and inner workings of the supposedly 'mysterious' Opus Dei organization by showing it's impact on his life. Dr. Hahn, a former Protestant minister and Catholic convert, is the author of numerous books, recordings, and makes frequent teaching appearances on the worldwide Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). This is not a hard-hitting investigative or historical book, but a quick but deep religious examination of Opus Dei's "biblical theology and biblical spirituality". Opus Dei is directly translated as "God's Work".
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Good on scripture, lacking on details
"Becoming a Millionaire God's Way" is an interesting book that takes on the assumption that Christians are to be poor.Author Thomas Anderson (NOT Robert Kiyosaki) examines the assumption and breaks it down through inspection of scripture.
wrong by line!
The book isn't actually by Robert Kiyosaki, all he has done is the forward, that was really miss leading. The book is actually by Dr. C. Thomas Anderson. It is good. For the Christian who want to live the life that God has instored for them which is without a doubt full of prosperity.

Some good, some aweful...
There are some assertions that Anderson makes that have me wondering. On page 96 the author states that, "If we are not doing our part, He(God) is limited in how much He can do". That's silly, I was under the impression that our God is an all-powerful God who can do anything He chooses to do, regardless of our actions, or lack of the same. I was also deeply troubled by his parenting tip on page 135. Here, he is explaining the importance of teaching self-control. I am all for teaching children self-control. I'm busy teaching my 2 and 4 yr olds how to control themselves. Anderson mentions that this lesson begins at a very young age; for his son, it started at 6 weeks of age when Anderson and his wife opted to feed and change their infant son, and then leave him in a room to cry all night. Anderson states, "He didn't sleep at all the first night. The second night he was sleeping like a baby". Just before this, Anderson mentions that his son was "healthy" and "happy" before being left alone for the night. I would assert this instead: if he wasn't breastfed, then he wasn't healthy. If he was breastfed, then he was healthy, but he sure wasn't happy for long, because breastmilk is digested VERY rapidly, and no more than about 4 hours later, their newborn was aching for another meal. I can only imagine what horrors I might find in his son's book on parenting. To counter the author's fears that children might continue to awaken for snacks in the middle of the night if they aren't "taught" to sleep by their parents: my children never were left to cry alone at night. They were always fed as needed as babies, and both sleep just fine through the night. As for the rest of the book's content, I'm finding some of it helpful, but I imagine I'd find all I needed to know in "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" perhaps without the flawed parenting advice. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Miracle cure stories abound when it comes to natural healing. A super nutrient reverses cancer after chemotherapy has failed. A Chinese herb lowers high blood pressure in a patient with heart disease after being dismissed as quackery by doctors. Jordan S. Rubin’s account of returning from the medical abyss, however, includes an original twist. After several years of battling Crohn’s Disease, which included a small fortune spent on both conventional and alternative treatments, as well as trips abroad in search of help, Rubin weighed only 111 pounds and, at just age 21, thought his life was over. At the urging of his father, a naturopath, he contacted an obscure nutritionist in California promoting a diet based on the teachings of the Bible. Yes, we’re talking what Jesus ate: kefir, lamb, sprouted breads, eggs and meat from free-range chickens, and plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Rubin also started to pray and added a new powder supplement containing homeostatic soil organisms (HSOs) to his diet. Four months later he weighed 170 lbs and was on the road back to his former athletic and healthy self. Inspired by his experience, and now with advanced degrees in nutrition and naturopathic medicine, Rubin has crafted Read more

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There are better books and then there is also the BEST Book.
I agree with a reviewer that listed "What the Bible Says About Healthy Living" as a better alternative.It is straightforward, simple to understand and Biblical without peddling all the "Clenzology" and supplements on you.You learn the basics in this simple to read book.
Maker's diet made my son breath easier...Asthma cure?Maybe.
We are active, not lazy people - so exercise is not our main problem.Diet, anti-biotic use, and the MMR shot I think were our biggest culprits.My son has had severe food allergies, and asthma since he was less than a year old.He needed intravenous antibiotics at birth, and later, was allergic to the MMR shot, but the doctor loaded him up with Benedryl and gave it to him anyways. Most kids who out grow their food allergies have done so by the time they are his current age - age 6.Our son was not getting better as time went on, he was getting worse, and adding more allergies to the list - over 15 different foods now, and almost all the environmental allergies that are available on the scratch test.
This book has....
This book has a good concept. If one has the ambition to actually do it. I bought this for my Sister who has Crohn's Disease and Ulcerated Colitis. She has taken parts of it and applied it to her life. I believe Jordan's story for her was the best thing she could read. ... Read more

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Great advice for business and for everyday life
My husband wants to start his own business.He has the skill to perform the service, but he has a mental block with getting started.This book is the ignition he needs.

Chuck Norris called this book PHENOMENAL...He's Right
One of the best books i've ever read.The author presents hundreds of Solomon's Proverbs covering 15 topics.The chapters on diligence, conflict and adversity, and partnering have been life-changing for me.And his chapter on deferred hope gives the most enlightening revelation on why relationships fall apart that I have ever heard.Thankfully he also shows Solomon's answers for restoring broken relationships.Reading the chapters on the booby traps to success and the number one cause of financial loss helped me to understand why some of my past efforts had failed so miserably.I only wish I had found this book 20 years ago.I too wish that Scott would have covered all 46 categories of Proverbs, but doing so would have probably resulted in a thousand page book.I'm a Christian, so I really loved his last chapter, but unlike the reviewer before me, Scott said right at the beginning of the book that the laws of life revealedin Proverbs can be used by Christian and non-Christian alike to achieve many of Solomon's promised outcomes.I 'll be giving out lots of copies of this book this Christmas.I can't think of a better gift to give to those I care about most.

NOT worth the money
"The Richest Man Who Ever Lived" by Steven K. Scott, I thought, would be a good buy.It was the farthest thing from a good buy.The premise of this book is imparting the wisdom of King Solomon to the masses by way of the Bible's book of Proverbs.That is at least how the book is marketed.Here are my problems with this book.First, there were plenty of good things in the book up to a point (page 244) when he states that he had divided up the book of Proverbs into 46 categories.And then proceeds to tell us that he has only presented 15 of these categories.In other words, he published an incomplete book.And it does little good to tell people, "think of the incredible insights that await you."Hey, Stevie Unwonder, I bought the book to get YOUR insights, not go through the thing myself.I probably should have done that to begin with, because I would have saved myself a lot of money.Second, he doesn't even use the Jewish bible, the Tanakh, for his source, but rather relies on the most perverted form of the Bible, the King James Version, not to mention other xian-dogma-infested version...Revised Standard, New American Standard, New International Version.NO!You MUST go to the original Hebrew for a correct understanding.And if you don't know Hebrew, the Orthodox Union publishes the entire Tanakh in Hebrew and English translation UNTOUCHED.These other so-called translations have had things altered that aren't in the original, so the sourcing isn't even correct.Third, he gets to the point where he says that the only way to honor G-d is by becoming a xian.In other words, he basically says that none of the things he has presented in his book will work unless you are a xian first.And then he gets to sounding like a crazed southern-baptist preacher during a summer-time tent revival.Talking about how Jesus said that, and how Jesus said this.I didn't buy the book to hear what Jesus said.I could care less what he supposedly said.I bought the book to read about Solomon.
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Insightful and Inspiring
This is a fun book, packed full of insight and inspiration.
Great Book - Recommend it to anyone
This is a great book if you are looking to develope a closer relationship with Jesus Christ (God) and do great things for him.I would highly recommend it.

Excellentbook!
I am currently reading this book and have already highlighted most of what I have read.God is teaching me so much through this book!Life changing. ... Read more

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Release your faith and LIVE!
The Barbarian Way: Unleash the Untamed Faith Within by Erwin Raphael McManus is a quick-reading devotional with enormous power.McManus looks at faith in a way I never have before.His faith is not a restrained, quiet faith, but an in-your-face strength that wants to change the world.He uses Scripture often to reinforce his views, as well as personal anecdotes both amusing and on occasion disturbing.I'm not sure that I'm ready to embrace the barbarian within me, but this book would make an excellent Bible study for youth.It encourages believers to break out of the box churches have imposed upon belief and truly live as Jesus meant us to.Enthralling reading.

Live the Adventure!
Erwin's straight forward style and honest stories made for a refreshing and encouraging read. If you want your life out of a "churchy" rut and back into God's adventure towards the world, The Barbarian Way is just the ticket.
Kick in the Pants Christianity
So how can you be both Barbarian and Christian?Isn't becoming a more Christian person supposed to tame us and tone us down?McManus offers helpful and challenging insights into the reasons that the real vibrant counter-cultural Christianity modelled by Jesus has been toned down and domesticated.Then he challenges us to get back to the Barbarian Way of following Jesus.
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Excellent Book
This book is one that my daughter needed to have as a requirement for religion class, but one that she will keep for years to come. It is really well written, and on a teenage level, not as if someone "old" wrote it for them. There are many helpful items contained inside from peer pressure to religious beliefs that will benefit her throughout her teen years.

The best period.
We compared this and the St. Mary's Press Catholic Youth Bible. This is simply more complete and thorough from a Catholic standpoint.The colorful and thematic pages really re-enforce positive and upbeat Catholic thinking and practice of the faith from a teen's perspective. The authors did an outstanding job of writing on a teen's level and choosing pertinent subjects to address. It is also the lowest cost Catholic Youth Bible on the market that we found.We highly recommend this Bible for Catholic youth and those who instruct them.

Buy this Bible for your child or student!
This is a great bible for Catholic students! I use this in my Confirmation class and it works very well.
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real stories from real churches: a guidebook for authentic community
Diana Butler Bass' book offers hope to neighborhood churches everywhere and points the way toward healthy, vibrant, faithful Christian community. As a young adult, I yearn for a Christianity that is rooted in tradition, yet filled with the Spirit of the living God --- a Christianity that is aware and responsive to the needs, concerns and hopes of this aching planet. Diana shares real stories from real churches all around the country seeking to live the gospel way of life --- feeding, forgiving, healing, reconciling and transforming.
A Clarion Call to Revitalize the Church
Anyone who feels that only evangelical megachurches are capable of increasing in membership should pick up a copy of Dr. Butler-Bass' most recent book. "Christianity for the Rest of Us" This book, which contains the results of her seminal sociological study of exploring vitality in mainline congregations, disproves the commonly held theory that the mainline church is either dead or on life support. Throughout the book, Dr. Butler-Bass sheds valuable insight on why some moderate to progressive mainline churches are indeed thriving. She dedicates chapters to explore the common characteristics such as hospitality, social justice, and worship that she discovered in these mainline churches that are growing and expanding. ... Read more

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Highly recommend!!
I cannot say enough about this book and the impact it has had on me as a daughter of our Heavenly Father. I felt it was a bit depressing in the beginning, and found some of the personal accounts almost hard to believe, but once I got past those, it was a big "aha!" I have never felt comfortable around women, don't trust them. This book has helped me to see women the way God sees women. I long for every Christian woman to read this--it is life-altering! Now that I have a daughter, it is even more important for me to pass on to her how God cherishes her. And I value her the way God values us as women. Knowing that I didn't want a daughter, my friend told me that having a daughter will help me to see how God sees me. I've never forgotten that, and reading this has given me hope for resolution with my mother. And hope for a better relationship with my daughter.
Excellent theology -- gets to the heart of all things
Excellent book!Gets to the heart of a woman's heart and to her relationship with men, with other women, and with God.Very empowering.Very healing. This book exalts God and helps us to understand who we really are and are meant to be.As a Christian egalitarian, I found the book empowering for both my husband and I and a resource for discovering greater strengthening and intimacy in our Christ-centered covenant of marriage.

Captivating is Captivating
I couldn't disagree more with one of the previous reviewers.I think this book is very insightful.It helps a woman to understand just how much God loves her and to realize that her life isn't ONLY about service to others.What I'm learning is more about how much He wants me to heal and to wake up to His unconditional Love - to be alive in Him and in my relationship with Him - to learn to TRULY trust Him as my Lord and Savior and Lover of my soul.If I learn more about His Love for me, and I learn to better love Him, I will better follow Him. ... Read more

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Wild at Heart
it was a great support of the book, Wild at Heart. It took the book into a deeper level.

A whole new perspective
This book answered many questions I have had for years: about myself, about the church; about Christianity.It launched me on a search for these things that has been very enlightening.I highly recommend getting the Field Guide to Wild at Heart which will help make the things in the book a very personal experience.
wild at heart
I have not finished this book as I am writing this. I can say the first 40 pages are worth the purchase price. Eldredge really seems to know how a man is to relate to Jesus. Its fairly obvious he enjoys a healthy relationship with our risen savior Jesus--and shows that we all can. Read it......if you dare. ... Read more

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Sad product of our times
I am saddened to think that this book has been not only recieved but accepted and then proclaimed as truth.
Of course the fundamentalists are scared.......
It is clear that this is the book that Christian fundamentalists (I say this as an American, but I suppose the Muslim and other fundamentalists elsewhere would also fight it) don't want you to read.
How To Upset the Status Quo
Write a few books and tell everyone flat out you're having a "conversation with God"....
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I have to agree with the "Stick in the MUD"
I am very disappointed in her latest book. The book is repetitive andnever amounts to much of anything. I am tired of waiting to know if Katie Hart and Dayne will get together, I am tired of waiting book after book to see if the Baxter family unite? I understand as an avid reader about build up/ climax but this is silly. I firmly believe as with many authors when you have success with a series that you for profit or quota (contract) throw in books that would never stand alone. I collect all of her books in my library in my home however, I will not purchase anymore books in this series. The last book was easily " a library" find. I could of waited till I found it at the library.

Guess I'll be the stick in the mud
I've read every book in Kingsbury's Redemption/Firstborn series and, sadly, this one seems the weakest yet. All the weaknesses of Kingsbury's style are here -- everything overwritten, as if we can't remember what happened just a chapter before, supposedly dramatic statements that, again, just repeat what we already know, awkward, overly wordy phrasing, etc. Perhaps this is because Kingsbury seems to be on a treadmill of pumping out books like an automaker pumps out vehicles. Is that really the best way to produce memorable novels?
Loved this book
Karen has done it again. She really knows how to pull her readers into
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In the Gap with Dr, Wayne Dyer
This book & CD set is a great way to cope with your daily stressors with out the use of medications. Dr. Wayne Dyer has over 300 products on the market and this book takes you to an even a higher awareness.

Getting in the Gap: Making conscious Contact with God Through Meditation
This is a great little book for keeping oneself in a state of positive being.It is small enough to be kept close by at all times to be referenced when needed at different times during the day.Dr. Dyer is an exceptional educator in the area of spirituality.This book is small but full of information for spiritual growth.I would highly recommend it to the world.

It's nice in the Gap
I really liked the peaceful fun feeling you get while reading this book. Very informative and well written. The book itself is like a showpiece I leave it out for anyone to read. Getting in the Gap and Japa are very effective forms of meditation, and with Wayne's help you instantly achieve higher levels of meditation with out the years of sitting around humming.
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Feast for the Soul...and your business
Dr Cloud serves up a delish and varied plate in his most recent offering toward healthy living. This book is highly readable, yet worthy of slow savoring as opposed to a quick snack.
Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Relity
For those in business, ministry, and anyone with a relationship, this book is a must read. The principles that are learned will change your life, I just thought I knew what integrity was, now I see the areas I need to improve in my life so that my relationships will be so much better. An excellent book!

Generalized overview with little new insight
I agree completely with the Becksted review (I also noted that it was helpful, but I meant it would have been helpful had I read it before I bought the CD).
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For growth and a challane read these.
This is an amazing Catholic meditation and daily reflection series. The seven volumes have daily readings for each day of the church year as well as volume 6 & 7 being special Feast Days. The readings draw heavily upon the writings of Josemaria Escriva the founder of Opus Dei, Pope John Paul II, and the daily readings from the common liturgy for that day. The Sundays have three sets of readings depending on if we are in year A, B, or C in the church readings. These devotions are all about 6 pages long and divided into 3 sections. They can be read all as a lump or part in the morning, midday and evening. I find that with every day there is so much meat in these devotions that I am already planning on reading them again next year.
Best Catholic daily meditation guide!
This series follows the gospel for the daily mass.If you don't have much time to read every day or attend daily mass this is for you!Just 15 minutes each morning will fill your mind and soul!You don't really need to read any other books if you faithfully read this.It's perpetual too so it'll last you many years!God Bless You!

The single best Catholic spiritual reading available without exception.
I have been an avid reader of Catholic literature for the past twenty years, and have easily read hundreds of Catholic books.In the early years of this period I tended to focus on books about devotional practices (e.g. rosary), Mary, apparitions and the saints.Over time, I found myself not so much interested in abandoning these topics but wanting to build upon them with readings that also dealt with progress in the spiritual life, particularly those that seemed to understand human psychology and the various aspects of virtues required for advancement in the spiritual life.So few writers seemed to be able to provide such a comprehensive range of themes - Garrigou Lagrange's Three Ages of the Interior Life is an exception.I must confess that over this entire time I have been attracted to finding a single book or single multi-volume work that could meet all of my needs.I must say that the 7 volume In Conversation with God series has meet and exceeded this need.
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A good Catholic Study Bible just got better!
If Oxford University Press had done nothing but reset the first edition (1970) in a more readable typeface, the second edition would have been well worth its purchase price. They did this, and more.