by DRichardFerguson | Jul 15, 2019 | Book Reviews Counseling, Book Reviews Nonfiction
My rating: 4 of 5 stars When People are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man, Edward Welch Outstanding book on the fear of man. Thesis: Fear of man is, crippling, unloving and sinful; and the solution is fear of God. Welch...
by DRichardFerguson | Jul 12, 2019 | Book Reviews Nonfiction
My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is designed to be read over the course of 3 months. Each day there is a list of Scriptures that are placed into the second person so they address God. So, for example, Galatians 3:21 goes from “Are the promises opposed to God’s law?...
by DRichardFerguson | Jul 6, 2017 | Book Reviews Counseling, Book Reviews Nonfiction
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Helpful book on the topic of addictions. The focus in more on especially severe addictions, so if a person struggles with an enslaving sin that isn’t life-dominating, he may come away from this book failing to appreciate the seriousness of his...
by DRichardFerguson | Jul 3, 2017 | Book Reviews Nonfiction
My rating: 3 of 5 stars I found this book to be extremely helpful in thinking through the concept of mentoring. Most people have kind of a narrow concept of mentoring. This book broadens the per spective, describing seven different kinds of mentoring that range from...
by DRichardFerguson | Jul 6, 2016 | Book Reviews Nonfiction
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Paul Tripp is the brother of Tedd Tripp (author of Shepherding a Child’s Heart), and so it’s not surprise that his approach is very similar. Age of Opportunity takes the principle of shepherding the heart and applies it to raising teenagers....
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