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If author Craig Groeschel’s dustcover picture makes him too young too have written such an urgent book, the football-field exhortations and postmodern layout of the book seem to line up perfectly with his youthful pose. I must confess that Groeschel had overcome my reservations about his style by about the fifty-yard line … I mean, the halfway point of this highly-focused book. (more…)

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Harley Pasternak thinks you can stay fit on 25 minutes per day and he backs up his confidence with quotes from celebrities who say he’s right. Halle Berry leading the list of enthusiasts. This reviewer thinks most of us lack the genes and the circumstances to manage that. Still, I think Pasternak’s program is a great supplement to gym-based fitness disciplines. I travel half the time and take 5-Factor Fitness on the road. This works if you stay in a hotels that have a cardio machine (stationary bike, treadmill) and a set of dumbbells and will actually go there before settling into ESPN and your in-room minibar. Perhaps G.P. Putnam’s Sons should work out a strategic alliance with the Gideons. (more…)

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Mary Hunt is a woman on a mission.

This book—best read as a follow-up to Hunt’s Debt-Proof Living—breathes with a passion and encouraging spirit that go beyond technical advice on how to live on the cheap. (more…)

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When I mentioned to my friend Carver Yu that I was reading this book, he scrunched up his face in the way that only a man who knows the field well can do and commented, `Well, of course, that book contains a fair bit of metaphysical speculation.’

Precisely. (more…)

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This literary agent’s guide for wannabe’ writers is meant to help mostly novice authors persuade people just like her. The book’s success is due largely to the plentiful examples of successful letters written by her and other authors. Templates abound, a happy state for any craftsman, not least beginning or intermediate writers. (more…)

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Like Jacob wrestling with the nocturnal angel, the reader will be repaid by a tenacious reading of Martin Hengel’s highly compacted rehearsal of the Greek Bible’s origins and use by Jews and Christians. (more…)

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I have a colleague who travels even more than I do and proclaims his travel doctrine at every opportunity: ‘Don’t carry it if you can drag it.’

I finally caved to his advice and bought the Kensington Contour Roller based on Kensington’s good name and the attractive price. (more…)

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I tend to trust the buyers at Costco on products like this. Their judgments rarely fail, and they’ve certainly put good value for money into their warehouse store with the Uniden cordless phone. You can of course buy this phone at lots of other places too, but the Costo endorsement means something. (more…)

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When one’s goal is the wider celebration of God’s glory in creation and society, how does one measure success?

What are the proper metrics? How does one arrive at the decision to keep going or, alternatively, to throw in the towel and try something else? What credentials does one accrue? (more…)

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The look on the Parisian photographer’s aid as he watches Audrey Hepburn pose from his perch on the Seine riverboat says it all. She’s magic.

But she’s not alone. (more…)

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