Reviews by Shannon Christman
How to Reach Your Full Potential for God
On 2/12 Shannon Christman wrote: . . . You’ll find some good advice in this book, but not as much theology or Scripture study as in some of Stanley’s other books. How To Reach Your Full Potential for God reads more like a self-help book (including a few paragraphs on the benefits of reading self-help books) than a Scriptural study, ... How To Reach Your Potential for God Doesn't Reach Its Author's Potential
Christianity in Crisis: The 21st Century
On 10/3 Shannon Christman wrote: Hank Haanegraaff offers an acronym for everything in Christianity In Crisis: The 21st Century, an update of his earlier book with the same title. The book contains so many acronyms that none of them are useful as mnemonic devices, and they are just one contributor to the overall effect of the book, which ... Too Much of a Good Thing
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
On 9/29 Shannon Christman wrote: In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, a sort of postmodern Ecclesiastes, Donald Miller describes his attempts to make his life a story worth telling. His life-editing begins when two filmmakers (one of them Steve Taylor, who remains my favorite musician fourteen ... The Elements of a Good Story: A Review of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
The Noticer
On 4/27 Shannon Christman wrote: Jones, the title character in The Noticer by Andy Andrews, must read a lot of Christian nonfiction. His plentiful advice, which radically changes the lives of the other characters in the book, seems to come from the pages of books like The Five Love Languages (but only after being stripped of elements ... Good Advice in Digest Form