The last three posts have been about Hell. Let me recommend a wonderful book on Heaven. It is by Randy Alcorn and it is titled simply; Heaven. I give it ten stars out of ten.
Invest in this book and read it. You will thank me.
Here is a link to Randy’s site.

I want to recommend a book I have not yet read. I bought it the other day, but I promised our son Daniel he could read the book first. He is training for ministry in Grand Rapids–the home of Rob Bell (No Hell Rob Bell). Some of his classmates have been enthusiastic about Rob Bell’s heresy about Hell.
He’s been reading Francis Chan’s new book on Hell–Erasing Hell. As we drive along he keeps asking questions and reading portions of the book. He quickly read half the book even while …

David Kline is an Amish Farmer. He is from Fredricksburg, Ohio. It seems to me that he writes a book about every ten years. I went to sleep last night reading his latest book, Letters from Larksong.
About twenty years ago I found Great Possessions. It was one of my favorite books ever. Ten years ago it was Scratching the Woodchuck. If you want to read David Kline, I would suggest you start with Great Possessions. You will thank me for this recommendation. Great Possessions is a collection of essays …

People who visit my study or hear my preaching or read my stories know that I love books. They often ask for book recommendations. Sometimes I give them. This morning I thought you might like to see a section of my little brother Kevin’s website where he recommends some sound books.
My brother pastors in beautiful Higgins Lake. He and his wife Carolyn have a delightful family. When I visit them I am reminded of all the good things about a large family. They read to their children each day around …

Gary Smaley’s kidneys failed. After a search for a kidney donor, his own son volunteered to give him one of his kidneys. Gary opens his book, Your Relationship with God, telling the story of that morning. He was cold, uncomfortable and grumpy. He was in an uncomfortable hospital gown irritated and impatient that things were taking so long. What he didn’t know was why. In that very moment, in the room next door, his son was fighting for his life. When the doctors removed his son’s kidney his lungs collapsed. …

Christ Formed in You; The Power of the Gospel for Personal Change. Brian Hedges (Review)
Christ Formed in You; The Power of the Gospel for Personal Change is a promising and compelling title. It is promising because it suggests it is the Christian gospel that empowers change. It is compelling because of the universal longing for change.
Personal change is big business in our world. People want to change. They know they need to change. To at least some degree, they desire personal change. Thousands upon thousands of books are …

It’s a crisp autumn morning in the Downriver. We had a good Lord’s Day yesterday. I poured my heart out to the people. If you are interested you can listen to the podcasts. If you don’t have time for the whole message, listen to the story I told to start my AM message. There is a little surprise in it. Now it’s Monday and I’m up early but the pace and feel are refreshingly different. I’ve loved my Mondays for years.
A Couple New Books;
If you like a clean, …

Last night as evening fell, I found myself in the country enjoying a mellow and comely summer evening. I aimed my chair toward a far-away tree line in the west and read under a huge walnut tree while Lois took photos of our new grand-niece, Bailey Hope. Her big brothers, Riley and Wyatt (do these people have a way with names or what?) played with Hope nearby. I’m sure pictures of wee Bailey will surface within a few days at www.loispierpont.com.
Just as evening fell into the trees and …

“It is a good thing when a man has a house of his own, thus to convert it into a church, by dedicating it to the service and honour of God, that it may be a Bethel, a house of God, and not a Bethaven, a house of vanity and iniquity. Every good Christian who is a householder, no doubt doth this habitually and virtually; having first given his own self to the Lord, he freely surrenders all he has to him.” –Matthew Henry
Here is a worth-while book. Obviously …

Harold E. Kohn was from Michigan. I still lived in my native Ohio when I discovered him. He was a fellow pastor, writer, lover of nature and Michigander. Once a year the Public Library of Mt. Vernon, Ohio had a generous sale to rid themselves of their discarded books. It was a bit of an annual holiday for me.