The Return

Review: The Daniel Prayer: Prayer That Moves Heaven and Changes Earth Anne Graham Lotz Zondervan 2016 One of the endorsements of this book said, “This work will call you out of the doldrums of lackluster faith and beckon you to renewed passion for an age-old spiritual discipline that still has wonder-working power” (Priscilla Shirer).   Absolutely, it will.   I applaud the author and the publisher for the courage to produce this work in this day and time.   Does that mean I agree with every word?   Not necessarily, but there isn’t much room to wiggle either.      This book is a call to prayer---individually and as the Church---with a view toward revival of the sort we have only read about lately.   The author sounds like one of the prophets of old as she calls to her people back to their roots.   I suspect for many that pick up this book they will find it much too challenging to finish.   Anne Graham Lotz (AGL) does no...

Review: More Than Conquerors: An Interpretations of the Book of Revelation, 75 th Anniversary Commemorative Edition William Hendriksen Baker Books 1940, 1967 This book is an anniversary edition commemorating 75 years of “uninterrupted printing history” according to the information from the back cover.   I don’t know how many other interpretations like this can claim that honor.   Within the biographical tribute the reader will find that a publisher named Herman Baker “presented the first trade copies…to the author in July 1939.” (7)   This is indeed a commemorative edition.    Given the age of this work I am sure scholarly reviews must be available for those that want to engage in a conversation with the text Hendriksen presents.   This book is accessible to all readers, not just the Biblical scholar, and I enjoyed reading this even though I found his interpretation much different from any I had read or heard presented before.  ...