Book Review: eight twenty eight

Book Review: eight twenty eight “when love didn’t give up” by Ian and Larissa Murphy

I received an unproofed manuscript copy of eight twenty eight “when love didn’t give up” from a friend on Facebook to write a short book review of this book. I took the chance to do this. Just letting you know that I am not the best book reviewer but love to read and read books. I will try my best.

Some years ago, I learned about Ian and Larissa Murphy through one of the blogs that I read. I had been reading their blogs some years ago that is Pray for Ian. I heard again through other bloggers about them too and through Desiring God as well. See the links below.

I truly enjoy reading this book and cried reading and thanking the Lord for them.

They met in the spring of 2005 and around the end of November 2005, Ian started dating to see if he wanted to make Larissa to be his wife. They were so in love with each other. Ian was on his way to work to earn enough money for a ring. Life shattered on September 30^th, 2006, Ian was in automobile accident and brain injuries. Yet, Love didn’t give up! There were a lot of ups and downs and struggles. Then the big wedding day on August 28^th, 2010 came. It is a beautiful love story to read.

This book does keep on pointing me to Christ and so amazed how God used all of this and the accident for His Glory.

I would encourage you all to get this book eight twenty eight and box of tissues too! I gave this book an 5 Stars.

Here is Pray for Ian, an old blog: http://prayforian.blogspot.com/?m=0

Here is another great post from Desiring God: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/the-story-of-ian-larissa

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/ian-and-larissa-one-year-later

Here is the newest blog: www.ianandlarissa.com

The Acceptable Sacrifice by John Bunyan

I have been reading another wonderful great book to read that is The Acceptable Sacrifice by John Bunyan. I haven't finish reading that yet, but it is a wonderful book to read and about Psalm 51:17. Yes, this book is written in King James' language (King Jamie's language), but if I can read it then you can read it.

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
           a broken and contrite heart, O God,
                 you will not despise. Psalm 51:17 ESV

I am looking forward to finish reading this book.

Without any question of doubt, this book is hitting me about my heart condition and how much I need to have a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart that is pleasing to Him.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Girls Gone Wise Part 1

Today, I have been eating a new book during my lunch time. I couldn't put that down at all. It is called Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild by Mary A. Kassian. It is great book to read for all women and girls too and even for those who are currently married, widow, single, engaged, or dating, and for all ages too. I will be posting more about it on my note and be posting on my blog, Lord willing!

I know that I have been a girl that had gone wild. We all have been wild even while we are a believer for Christ. Yes, that is the TRUTH and a big MAJOR OUCH too!

Here is a short video about Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild.

I have learned a lot in this book so far. I am looking forward to read next chapters and write about them.

Yes, I am learning a lot in a book from Girls Gone Wise! I love it so far. I learned two words in that and other special words with it meaning that I didn't know in the first place.

First the word was Stilettos. I didn't know that was a High Heels Shoe. Of course, I never have worn them due to bad ankle and knee and plus never had desire to wear that killer thing in the first place.

Second word was an old fashion word "wont" that I had to look up in the dictionary for that definition. Accustomed!

Third word was Simple from Proverbs 1:22. Now, I now know what simple means in that sense. It means Being unwilling to learn or do what is right. All the time, my definition was something easy to deal with and nothing too hard and stick to the basic and nothing more after that.

I am indeed learning a lot in this. Also, I am watching video online for each chapters (I have watch “Introduction” Wild Thing, and Chapter 1: Heart) and have download questions and printed out for me to answer. I am so thankful for this.

There are 20 Points of Contrast in this book.

Lord willing, I will be posting this each time I finish each chapters on my facebook to encourage others to get this book and to watch the video too. Also, I will be posting it in my blog as well too.

I know that I had been a girl that had gone wild. I am glad and thankful that I am a girl that want to be wise and for Christ alone too. The Lord is so good.They also do have a wonderful website that you can go to and learn a lot from them. Girls Gone Wise I would encourage you all to check this out and get that book too!

Hungry to eat His Word and to be wise for Christ Alone,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Finally Alive by John Piper!

Some weeks ago, I finish reading Finally Alive by John Piper! It is a wonderful great book about two different view of born again. I am so thankful that he made it so clear what born again really do means and what it really do look like in the real life.

One view is the worldly view of born again which isn't biblical view of born again. A lot of people thinks that they are born again just because they are Christian, or they go to church. This is according to Barna Group.

The other view is Biblical view of born again, and this is the correct view of born again and who are a true believer for Christ.

I had been so frustrated or so perplex with some people who consider themselves a believer, or Christian, or born again Christian when their life or fruits doesn't reflect that. I am so aware that some of you had been so frustrated or so perplex with them. Of course, it is hard to witness to them when they think that they got it. Only the Lord alone knows their heart whether they are a true believer for Christ or not.

Are you really born again according to the Biblical View? If you aren't sure, I would encourage you all to get this book and find out for yourself whether you are truly born again or not.

John Piper does really explain what born again really means in Biblical Views. He will point you to the scriptures very clearly. I am so thankful how he does point them out and explain the differences between the worldly view and Biblical view of born again. Thank you, John Piper!

Again, I can see this book can be a great tools for you to use as you are mentoring other new believer to live their life for Christ.

I do truly 100% agree with the Biblical view of what Born again really do means.

I know that I am born again and living my life for Christ.

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Been So Busy!

Sorry, I haven't written a post since January 6th. I have been so busy getting red tape things done that I need to have it done. They are no fun to do them. With the Lord helps, I was able to do most of them. I still have some more to do. Please do pray for me and for the wisdom that I need to have Also pray for Loan Modification too even though I am caught up paying my first mortgage. I still do need to lower down my house payment. I am still waiting for some paper work to come through which should be here this month before it is over. I also have been working at Odds and Ends job which is a true joy to do for the Lord.

Now, here I am. As of January 1st, I have been eating His Word by using Justin Nale's Bible Reading Plan. I am hanging in there and enjoying it. I am so thankful for this Daily Bible Reading Plan that is perfect for me. I haven't miss a day on this which is a praise. I normally wake up early in the morning and have this for my breakfast with my ear turned off but turn on my spiritual ear to hear Him speaking to me as I am eating His Word.

Have you started a Bible Reading Plan for yourself for this year? If not, it isn't too late to start this wonderful godly habit to have a Daily Bible Reading Plan. Not sure about what kind of Bible Reading Plan, click on that link, and it will take you to other kind of Bible Reading Plan.

I also have been reading John Piper's book on Finally Alive. I am so in love with this wonderful book. I am so thankful for this wonderful book that explain the difference between the worldly view of Born Again and the Biblical view of Born Again. I totally 100% agree with Biblical view of Born Again. I also now do understand why I have been so frustrated with people who claimed that they are born again. I tend to be Thomas the Doubted about that they are born again when their life doesn't reflect that. We all need to educated those who does claim to be born again what Biblical Born Again really do means.

As of last night, I have started reading The Mortification of Sin by John Owen. I know that I will be learning a lot from this wonderful book. (By the way, I haven't finish reading Finally Alive, but I will soon.) I am reading The Mortification of Sin by John Owen with Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church in Rocky Mount on Wednesday night. We share and answer questions what we are learning in this book. I am looking for the next Wednesday night that is February 16th with them again. (It isn't every Wednesday night for this study.) This is more like having Theological Studies again. I love to be in a group like this. I truly do miss having Tuesday Morning Theological Breakfast that my wonderful church family (Christ Baptist Church of Wilson) had.

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

The Trellis and the Vine Part 2!

Last night, we in our Care Group finish reading, studying, and discussing about The Trellis and the Vine. It is a wonderful book for us to read and learn a lot from it. I am so thankful that we all did this. I can see how helpful this book is for us at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson. (Back in October, I wrote a blog about reading this book in our Care Group.)

I truly to believe that every new church or little church (under 120 members) need to read this wonderful book. But again it is for every church no matter how large they are. It will be trickier for a very large church in my personal opinion to get this start. If you just start a new church, please don't put this off. You will be thankful for this wonderful book, and it will help the church in a lot of way.

All of us, believers for Christ are both disciples and disciple-makers for Christ. We all do need to point and encourage one another to Christ daily.

The growth of the number in church isn't that important but disciplining, and reaching out to others, and pointing others to Christ is far more important.

There are a lot of good resources that you can use from this. Matthias Media, The Ministry Training Strategy, Two Ways to Live

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

The Trellis and the Vine!

I am so thankful that we, at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson for the Care Group are studying and reading The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne. I am learning a lot there and still have a lot to learn. We just started the first chapter last night. There are 12 chapters in this book.

Here is a wonderful book review link: The Trellis and the Vine from blogger Tim Challies and in this review you will see a video clip of Mark Dever, who is the Senior Pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. It is a great video to watch and very easy to understand him.

I would encourage you all to get this book which is available through Westminster Book. I am sorry that this book is not available through Amazon.

Please do check out their wonderful website that is Matthias Media, the publisher of this book, and you will see a lot of wonderful interesting tools in there too.

I am looking forward to learn a lot through this book and other books offer through Matthias Media.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

PS. If you do have facebook, both The Trellis and the Vine and also Matthias Media is on the facebook. Please do join them on the facebook.

Listen Up! by Christopher Ash

On Sunday, October 3rd, we, the member of Christ Baptist Church of Wilson during the member meeting got a booklet of Listen Up! A practical guide to listening to sermons by Christopher Ash. The next day, I read through out that booklet of 30 pages. I would encourage you all to get this booklet and read it.

Here is the link to an excellent review of this book: Becoming a Better Listener and of course, Tim had posted other books as well as Listen Up! in that same review.

This booklet will challenge us to keep our pastor on his toe as he is preaching His Word to us, sheep. We, sheep all do need to hold the pastor accountable as he is preaching his sermon with His Word.

4 :1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 2 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV

Hungry to eat His Word,
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The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

As a wonderful homework assignment from Boundless Summer Challenge Task 4 I had to review The Five Love Languages.

The review The Five Love Languages. (You can go to this website to learn a lot more about this. It isn't just for married couple only.)

But I read this book: The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman ~ How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate. I had borrow this wonderful book from a wonderful friend of mine. I am thankful that I did that. (I don't see this one on their website. But I do think it had changed to The Five Love Languages ~ The Secret to Love that Lasts.)

Yes, I did learned a lot as I read this book even though it is written for marriage couple who are having problem with their marriage.

Gary had written other The Five Love Languages as well that is for Children, Teenagers, Singles, and others. I hadn't read those yet and his other books too. I would love to get The Five Love Languages, Single Edition.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Communion with God the Father by John Owen

I had been reading and eating John Owen's book on Communion with God. On page 12, "They are to receive Him as the One who loves them, are are to be full of praise and thanksgiving to God for His love. They (saints) are to show gratitude for His love by living a life which pleases Him."

Yep! he got that right. We all need to show gratitude for His love by living our life which pleases Him. Do we daily live our life that is pleasing to Him or not? We ought to. (I do hope that I had worded it correctly.)

I do encourage you all to get this book. It will take me a long time and a lot of dinner dates with this wonderful book. I am taking my time to eat this book along with eating His Word as well. This is an very deep and very educational book to read. Now, this book isn't a hard reading book but a real eyes opener. I have a lot to learn. I love it and so madly in love with this book and His Word that is the Bible.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Scandalous by D.A. Carson Part 2

Sometimes ago, I had finish reading Scandalous by D.A. Carson. It is a very interesting and educational book to read. I had learned a lot in this book.

There are 5 different chapters. The Ironies of the Cross: Matthew 27:27-51a, The Center of the Whole Bible: Romans 3:21-26, The Strange Triumph of a Slaughtered Lamb: Revelation 12, A Miracle Full of Surprises: John 11:1-53, and Doubting the Resurrection of Jesus: John 20:24-31. He used NIV in this book, but I am linking it to ESV.

Every chapter is very interesting, and he will explain the meaning of the passage and the point why this had to happened.

Revelation is a very hard book to read. I had learned a lot in this book about Revelation 12 and am thankful for that. Without the explaining it to me, I would be so lost trying to understand it.

In John 20:24-31, I had learned a lot especially in John 20:28 on how the Jehovah's Witnesses find it difficult to accept this verse at face value. We all know that they (Jehovah's Witnesses) do not believe that Jesus is truly God.

I did have problem with NIV in John 20:26. Why?

In John 20:26 NIV:
26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"

In John 20:26 ESV:
26 Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”

In my mind, I kept telling myself, I thought it was Eight days later and not a week later. I did check in other translations such as KJV, NKJV, AMP, NASB, and many more on my Palm Pilot could hold all that translations. All of them used, "Eight days later". MMMM! To me, a week later is equal to seven days later and not eight days later. I kept telling myself that I might be counting its wrong. So, I wrote that down.

So, I had to ask myself, "Is a week later equal to 7 days later?", or "Is a week later equal to 8 days later?". I remembered the number 8 and was specific about that which caused me to look that up. My memory can be driving me up the wall to be very specific.

I email this question to a wonderful friend and learned from her. The Greek is "And after eight days." I would love to learn to read the Greek and Hebrews. I am thankful for someone who can read it for me.

No wonder why I never had been crazy about NIV and always prefer other translations.

See my other post about this Scandalous by D.A. Carson that I first wrote.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Stop Dating the Church by Joshua Harris!

I had been reading Stop Dating the Church by Joshua Harris. It is a wonderful book to read. I would encourage you all to read his book even though you aren't dating the church. It is a very easy reading book to read, and it can be read in one day.

This book is a wonderful tools to help you to find a church home that you ought to be part of. Also this book is a wonderful tools for us to encourage other how very important it is be part of the church family.

If you dating a church (not a member) or hopping from one church to another church and not being rooted in, then please do get this book and read it. You will be very thankful for this wonderful book.

Remember this: There isn't going to be a perfect church on this earth until we meet Jesus at His feet. We all need to be thankful for a church that we can be part of even they aren't perfect. Don't let it stop you from going to church. Please do find a wonderful church home for you to be rooted in and be part of. You will be thankful when you do this. It will change your life.

After reading this book, and you aren't sure about the doctrine or other things. There are number of wonderful books that you can read that is:

What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever ~ It is a very easy reading book and can finish it in one day. For more in depth information ~ 9 Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever

Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem ~ (Please do click on that link to read for more detail about this wonderful book.) It isn't a quick and easy reading book but a very challenging one. This book does have 528 pages including index and glossary. It is an very educational book to read. This book will also help you to define your own doctrinal convictions. Last year (2009),I had read most of it and not all of it with Tuesday Morning Theological Breakfast with my wonderful church family. I am so thankful for this book. Sometimes, I still do look it up to full understand about others strange doctrine that didn't sound right to me.

I do pray that you will find a wonderful church home to be part of a wonderful church family. As for me, I am so thankful for my wonderful church family. If I have to move due to my job or whatever reason, I know without any doubt, that I would say that I will have to uproot my wonderful church family and move them with me. I do thank the Lord for them.

I do want to share with you this passages.

24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Scandalous by D.A. Carson

Tonight, I had started reading Scandalous by D.A. Carson this time with color pen, highlighter, notebook paper, and Bible of course. I went back to the beginning of it again because I reading it when I was having my lunch break at work but without the tools that I needed.

Back in March, I had won this book through Allen Mickle, Jr.'s blog. Thank you, Allen Mickle, Jr.

So tonight, I had my dinner date with D.A. Carson "by reading his book and not him in person" and Scandalous. Yes, I did read the copyright page which I always do. I wrote "OUCH!", when I learned the translation that D. A. Carson was using. He was using NIV and not ESV. Then I had to reminded myself that D.A. Carson had approved of TNIV or go to another link, and another link. Again OUCH! Here is the link that is against TNIV. I am against TNIV too. I am not trying to put down D.A. Carson over his use of translation.

On the other hand, Scandalous was published by Crossway this year and also the publisher of ESV "English Standard Version". My thought was, "Why did Crossway allowed NIV and not using ESV?". I thought that was very odd. Although, nothing wrong with NIV. I am so thankful that they didn't use TNIV. I am not against NIV, nor I am not anti-NIV. But still I thought that it is very odd.

In spite of the fact that NIV translation is being uses in this book, I have already had enjoy and learning from this book, Scandalous. I am on page 20 now. I still have a long way to go. It is a interesting book so far.

The truth is that I am not crazy or am not intoxicated about NIV. I am crazy and intoxicated about ESV because it is word for word translation. The reason why I am not crazy about NIV, because NIV is a combination of word for word and thought for thought.

Lord willing, I will write a book review about this and will give you the other godly book review links about this book as well.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul!

On Tuesday night, I just finish reading The Holiness of God By R.C. Sproul! I won that book back in March for answering the correct question during the Wednesday night Bible Study. I am thankful for this wonderful book to read. This book is a must to read. I would encourage you all to read this book with color pens, highlighter, notebook paper, and Bible of course. PDA would be a plus.

I want to list other website about this book review and other that does link to The Holiness of God. I do hope that will encourage you all to get this book.

Ligonier Ministries

Ligonier Blog

Get "The Holiness of God" Free (for the first time contacts)

R.C. Sproul, Session 1 with Desiring God

There are more links of R.C. Sproul with Desiring God. This is the search results from Desiring God.

Sproul on The Holiness of God by Justin Taylor

Ligonier Conference - R.C. Sproul from Tim Challies' blog

The R.C. Sproul ~ Search Results in Tim Challies' blog

(Information for the Deaf who can lipread and listen: I just want to let you all know that he is easy to understand on the YouTube. I would encourage you all to listen and lipread him on this.)

Clip 1 of 5 "The Holiness of God" on YouTube

Clip 2 of 5 "The Holiness of God" on YouTube

Clip 3 of 5 "The Holiness of God" on YouTube

Clip 4 of 5 "The Holiness of God" on YouTube

Clip 5 of 5 "The Holiness of God" on YouTube

I will be looking forward to read his other books. Right now, I am currently reading Scandalous by D.A. Carson. Lord willing, I do hope to write a book review of this book.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Humility: True Greatness by CJ Mahaney

I had been so bless to study Humility: True Greatness by CJ Mahaney with one of my wonderful friend, Lisa who is in my wonderful church family. I am so thankful for this wonderful book studying together in person or by email back and forth when we had conflict for getting together.

What a wonderful book to read together. I would encourage you all to do the same thing. We all need to learn humility and to be more humble for Christ. I have learn a lot and still have a lot more to learn from this.

We all need to hold one another accountable daily.

Here is a wonderful comment on this wonderful book:
"Humility is our greatest friend and pride our greatest enemy."

In this book, there is so much for us to learn and read again. It isn't a book just to read just one time and be done with it for good. It is a book that is a must to read again and again as to remind ourselves how much we all need to be more humble for Christ. I am not that humble just because I just read the book for the second time.

Also, in this book teaches us that we do need others to point out our sins as our "cream cheese" in our life. Lost about "cream cheese", I would encourage you all to read this book, and that is in Chapter 10 -- Inviting and Pursuing Correction.

Let take a look at all the list of scriptures about Humility:

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6 ESV

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 1 Peter 5:5 ESV

But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word. Isaiah 66:2b ESV

Also the whole book of Habakkuk too. First, he was confused and complaining. Second, God-Centered Prayer. Third, A Focus on Salvation, not Suffering. Forth, Waiting Quietly. Fifth, Humbly Rejoicing.

By this Habakkuk, we all need to look how do we response in our suffering. We should be like Habakkuk and not be confused and complaining. Man, if you know me very well, than you know that I am a chief complainer. I need to learn to be humbly rejoicing.

We all need to learn how to weaken pride and cultivate humility.

If you have seen my book or her book, then you will see a lot of underlined, starred, and highlighted. There is a lot of wonderful quotes by John Owen, John Calvin, John Stott, Jonathan Edwards, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and many wonderful others.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Chosen for Life by Sam Storm

Some time ago, I had finish reading Chosen for Life by Sam Storm. What a wonderful and very educational book to read. It is about the differences between Calvinist's view and Arminian's view. The more I read it and the more I understand Calvinist's view which does point to Biblical way of understand His Election. The more I read Arminian's view, and this had me scratching my head and couldn't understand where they get their view of understand His election which doesn't seem to be Biblical at all.

Chosen for Life is a great book written by Sam Storm who is a man who used to be Arminian and so hard headed until he understood Calvinist belief. This book is very educational book to read a long with the Bible to double check. So far, I do agree with Calvinist belief and not Arminian belief which had left me scratching my head. The most important is that we all need to have the correct understand of His Election Biblically and not just Calvinist or Arminian way.

I had written a post about this book back in Nov. Here is my blog: Calvinistic Concept of Election vs Arminian Concept of Election.

Then I read the Appendix C which is about The Divine Decrees on page 213 to 219, I found that is a very hard challenging Appendix to read. This had me thinking and want to learn more about this.

If you are going to read this book, I would encourage you all to have your Bible, color pens, and highlighter with you, and if you got Palm Pilot or whatever with electronic Bible with more than just one Bible translation. You will be very amazing how Calvinist's view does line up Biblical about His Election. I would encourage you all to read each verses that he had quote in this book.

By the way, I am not a hyper-Calvinist because I do believe in evangelism.

I am hungry to learn more about Calvinist and TULIP too.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Calvinistic Concept of Election vs Arminian Concept of Election

I had been reading Chosen for Life by Sam Storms. I had been scratching my head about that crazy Arminian Concept of Election which doesn't make any sense at all to me. I do totally agree with Calvinistic Concept of Election which does line up with the Biblical standard. (I just started reading Chosen for Life this week.)

I know that I have a lot to learn all about 5 points of Calvinist's view and that crazy Arminiam's 5 points of view too. I am planning to learn more about Calvinist and would love to get this TULIP in DVD (I don't have a DVD player and hope it will work on my computer. (Can't find that on Amazon.)) and TULIP in Study Guide. Both are from Desiring God. Also I would love to get other wonderful materials about Calvinist too.

It would be cool to have this in a small group study with wonderful church family like Tuesday Morning Theology Breakfast or other time.

I know there are a lot of wonderful post online for more information about both Calvinist view and that no-nonsense view of Arminian.

The most important of all is not the label of Calvinist or Arminian, but we all need to have the correct Biblical view of His Election.

At this point, I can't afford to buy any books, but I am currently reading whatever books that I have on hand or had borrow. I had updated my wish list (BoldLion's Wish List) through Amazon. I do wish that Westminster does have a wish list that I can share with other.

By the way, I just want to share this, and I thought this is odd. My spell check on this blog doesn't recognize Arminian. It did recognize Calvinist. I did spell Arminian correctly according to the spelling that I got from Chosen for Life.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

The Confessions of St. Augustine!

I had finish reading the book that is The Confessions of St. Augustine. It is a very different kind of book to read. It isn't an easy pleasure book to read book. But it is a book that all must read. Yet, you will put your self in his shoe and feel the pain that he had gone through. You will be reading his confession and his study as he learned more about God and Christ.

On the back of the book, there is a quote which did summary up to what this book is about:

"Augustine never thought of God without thinking of his sins, nor of his sin without thinking of Christ."

His lovely mother, Monica faithfully prayed for her son to be saved and to come to know Christ. She got her prayer answered.

His main struggle was lust and didn't want to be free and yet do want to be free from it but want to hold onto it. This is what he said:

"But I, wretched, most wretched, in the very commencement of my early youth, had begged chastity of Thee, and said, 'Grant me chastity and continence, only not yet.'" The Eight Book and Chapter 17.

Do we have the same problem with our sins that we want to be free and yet hold onto it? We all need to be free from bondage and let go that is hurting us and hurting our relationship to Him.

I am looking forward to read other books that point us to Christ! The Lord is so good!

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Half way through the year!

Yes, we are half way through the year! The Lord had been so good. I have been keeping up with my Daily Bible Reading so far this year. I am so thankful for this. It is not too late to start Daily Bible Reading, and you can do it. There are many ways to do it. It is very interesting to continue to learn more daily in that.

Now, I am memorizing James 1 in ESV with my wonderful church family. We all need to be memorizing His Word and store them in our heart. Also eating His Word too. You can do it too!

Now, I am still currently reading The Confessions of St. Augustine and Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem for Tuesday Morning Theology Breakfast. I have really enjoy reading and studying this two books. I will write a book review of The Confession of St. Augustine when I finish reading his book. Right now, I am in The Eight book of The Confessions of St. Augustine. There are Ten Books in that. It is a very interesting book to read and learn a lot from him.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

A Perfect Church!

I just had come home from supper, and eating His Word, and studying Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem, Chapter 26 "The Nature of the Church" for Tuesday Morning Theology Breakfast. I am learning a lot in this book!

That chapter did remind me of the statement that I had made on Aug 6th, 2005 on the way to the wedding to Asheboro with Tim and Carol, "There isn't going to be a perfect church on this earth until we meet at Jesus' feet." I never had forgotten that statement that I had made right out of my mouth. This is so true.

I am so thankful for Christ Baptist Church of Wilson that does preach His Word! We all need to be in a church where the Word is being preach, and where we can be eating His Word too.

What kind of church should we be part of? This book can tell you the different between true church and false church. All of us need to be involve with a true church.

This chapter identified with:
How can we recognize a true church?
What are the purpose of the church?
What makes a church more or less pleasing to God?

It also listed the "Marks" of the Church (Distinguishing Characteristics).

I would also encourage you all to get this book and learn a lot from this. It is a very easy reading and challenging too. You will need to have a Bible to go with it to fully understand the whole thing. I am so thankful for this wonderful book. The most of all is His Word that is the Bible that we all need to be eating His Word!

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion