What is pop culture? That's the one question I've always wanted to get a definitive answer to in all of my adult life. Well, I believe I have found a book that attempts to give me that answer. All God's Children & Blue Suede Shoes by Ken Myers explores the...
Book Review 44: Gray Matters by Brett McCracken
by MHill | Sep 13, 2013 | 2013 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Nonfiction
"Christians have a hard time with nuance, gray areas are not out strong suit." "Discernment is a tricky business, much more complicated than a checklist or matrix of black-and-white criteria. And it begins on the inside, with an awareness that while discernment is a...
Book Review 37: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
by MHill | Apr 20, 2013 | 2013 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
"For me writing has always felt like praying." "Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts." Those touching, powerful quotes are from Minister John Ames, the protagonist of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Gilead tells his...
Book Review 34: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
by MHill | Jan 14, 2013 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
Have you ever read a book that you knew instantly you should have read years ago? I knew it after reading the first chapter of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. I was working at a mom-and-pop bookstore in Santa Fe, NM in 1996 when this novel was published. I...
Wisdom of Kammbia 3.10: For Those Who Are Angry At God After Yesterday’s Tragedy
by MHill | Dec 15, 2012 | Wisdom From Kammbia Column
There are many people who are angry with God today. Both believers and non-believers are angry with the Lord because of what happened yesterday in Connecticut. The atheists, agnostics, and other non-believers are saying, "How could we believe in the God of the Bible...
Book Review 33: The Child Goddess by Louise Marley
by MHill | Dec 11, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Can you judge a book by its cover? Well, this old adage was put to the test by me in reading The Child Goddess by Louise Marley. I was perusing at our local used bookstore here in San Antonio and made it to the science-fiction section to see this striking cover of a...
Habakkuk 3:1-19 (Habakkuk’s Prayer)
by MHill | Dec 8, 2012 | Study of Habakkuk
O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His splendor covered the heavens,...
Habakkuk 1:12-2:20 (His 2nd Complaint and God’s Response)
by MHill | Dec 1, 2012 | Study of Habakkuk
Are you from everlasting O Lord my God, my Holy One We shall not die O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment And you, O'Rock have established them for reproof You who are of purer eyes than to see evil And cannot look at wrong Why do you idly look at traitors And...
Habakkuk 1:2-11(The 1st Complaint and God’s Response)
by MHill | Nov 24, 2012 | Study of Habakkuk
O Lord, how long shall I cry for help and you will not hear? Or cry to you Violence! and you will not save? Why do make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law is paralyzed,...
Habakkuk: An Introduction
by MHill | Nov 18, 2012 | Study of Habakkuk
Last summer, I did an online Bible Study on the Book of Ecclesiastes(my favorite book) and now I'm going to write and post a study on the Book of Habakkuk. Let's face it, many Christians when they open their bibles don't go looking for the Book of Habakkuk for their...