The Return

Review: The Chamberlain Key: Unlocking the Biblical Code That Proves the Existence of God Timothy P. Smith with Bob Hostetler Waterbrook 2017 Prove the existence of God with a biblical code?   The subtitle of this book put me off right away.   Not another secret code book!   Enough of that sort of thing.   I guess that makes me prejudiced against this book from the beginning.   I suspect I will not be the only one, but I did read it.   Nearly every word and I did skim though the glossary and the reading list.   Others will read it, too. Smith’s story is fiction worthy, but the reader is told up front that it is a true story of the journey Smith took exploring some unusual occurrences in his own life.   With the help of Hostetler, a published author in his own right, Smith proceeds to tell his tale, albeit in a format that reads more like fiction.   I would have preferred a more decidedly nonfiction approach.    ...

Review: The Real God: How He Longs for You to See Him Chip Ingram Baker Books 2016 Ingram says up front that his desire for those that read this book is “to engage the reader in a lifelong pursuit of knowing, seeing, and experiencing the Real God.” (15)   The Real God?   He means the one found in Scripture who has not been conformed to my ideas or desires.   So, is saying that I might have some distorted idea of God?   The nerve!   Yeah, that’s where I started with this book.   Doesn’t give an author much room to work.   I put the book down, went on vacation, and then came back to it, more just to get it off my to-do list than anything else.    Not only did I discover that I needed a vacation, but that over time I had acquired a distorted view of the God of the Bible.   Time for some adjustment, and this book provided the means for that adjustment.   Ingram uses an older book by Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, ...