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The national media and the curious all flock to the little town--a great boon for local business but not for Travis Jordan. The burned-out former pastor has been trying to hide his past in Antioch. Now the whole world is headed to his backyard to find the Messiah, and in the process, every spiritual assumption he has ever held will be challenged. The startling secret behind this visitation ultimately pushes one man into a supernatural confrontation that has eternal consequences.

16 hours and 14 minutes]]> 519 Frank E. Peretti 0849911796 Eileen 5 favorites 3.71 1999
author: Frank E. Peretti
name: Eileen
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 1999/01/01
date added: 2024/08/04
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This book shows dramatically how good, right, and beautiful evil can make itself appear until its true nature emerges. The characters' unravelling of the truth makes intriguing reading for mystery fans. Because it is a work of Christian fiction, it will be particularly intriguing to members of this faith. This is one of my favorite books, and I think it shows Peretti at his best.
]]> 13772008 278 Jonathan Fisk 0758631014 Eileen 2 The author is a Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod pastor, and he writes the book from a strong LCMS position. I've been exploring the LCMS, as I am a disaffected member of another Lutheran denomination, and this book is yet another example of an attitude that I perceive as characterizing his church: It's as important to be LCMS as it is to be Christian. I think my Baptist brother would take strong exception to the author's inclusion of "asking Jesus to come into your heart" as part of a "lie" that characterizes inauthentic Christianity.]]> 4.15 2012
author: Jonathan Fisk
name: Eileen
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2012
rating: 2
read at: 2016/06/21
date added: 2016/06/22
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I read this book as part of a summer reading program sponsored by Concordia. While reading the book, I found my reactions alternating between "Tell me something I don't know" and "Huh?" The dense writing and references to sources ranging from "Paradise Lost" to "Star Wars" made the book difficult, rather than easier, for me to understand. I found the most useful parts of the book to be the last page of each chapter, on which the author sums up the main point of the chapter: The rule to be broken is identified in one word and briefly defined.
The author is a Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod pastor, and he writes the book from a strong LCMS position. I've been exploring the LCMS, as I am a disaffected member of another Lutheran denomination, and this book is yet another example of an attitude that I perceive as characterizing his church: It's as important to be LCMS as it is to be Christian. I think my Baptist brother would take strong exception to the author's inclusion of "asking Jesus to come into your heart" as part of a "lie" that characterizes inauthentic Christianity.
]]> 1891139 377 Isaac Asimov 0671227017 Eileen 2 tried-to-read 4.12 1979
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Eileen
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1979
rating: 2
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]]> 190296 232 Pierre Berton 039307529X Eileen 3 3.75 1977
author: Pierre Berton
name: Eileen
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1977
rating: 3
read at: 2008/08/06
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Seven Days in May is a political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. It was made into a motion picture in 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he resigned from the military. The author, Knebel, got the idea for the book after interviewing then-Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay.]]> 341 Fletcher Knebel 0060124350 Eileen 3 ]]> 4.23 1962
author: Fletcher Knebel
name: Eileen
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1962
rating: 3
read at: 2008/06/01
date added: 2008/07/10
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Aside from the plot itself, it was interesting to read about the 1970s as a setting in "the future" in a book published in 1962: a future in which John Kennedy was not assassinated, Richard Nixon did not become president, the Watergate scandal never happened, and an entirely different set of political crises played themselves out.

]]> 38180 On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.]]> 296 Nevil Shute Eileen 3 Those who saw the TV movie made in 2000 should know that it differs considerably from the book. The basic plot and the ultimate outcome are the same, but the story is told quite differently. For example, many of the main characters' personalities were changed and some of the circumstances play out differently. Perhaps the greatest difference, though, is the time period: In the book, which was published in 1957, the war took place in 1961 and the characters are awaiting the end in 1963.]]> 3.95 1957
author: Nevil Shute
name: Eileen
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1957
rating: 3
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The response of the country of Australia and a group of American Naval personnel stationed there to the certainty that they will die following a month-long nuclear war in the northern hemisphere makes up the book's plot. It took two years for the radiation to reach the southern continents, and the book follows the reactions of several individuals as an end that was once distant comes closer. There's not much more to say about the plot without revealing it, but the book provides an opportunity to consider how one would react to the knowledge that one's life will end at a particular time.
Those who saw the TV movie made in 2000 should know that it differs considerably from the book. The basic plot and the ultimate outcome are the same, but the story is told quite differently. For example, many of the main characters' personalities were changed and some of the circumstances play out differently. Perhaps the greatest difference, though, is the time period: In the book, which was published in 1957, the war took place in 1961 and the characters are awaiting the end in 1963.
]]> 556570 313 C.S. Lewis 0156904365 Eileen 4 4.24 1956
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Eileen
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1956
rating: 4
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]]> 927275 Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C.S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that "at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks the same voice.]]> 190 C.S. Lewis 0020868308 Eileen 5 favorites 4.33 1952
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Eileen
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1952
rating: 5
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Quite simply, this book explains what I believe and why I believe it better than any other work of religious commentary. I have taught this book in adult Sunday school classes and have used illustrations from it in lessons on other topics.
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