Category: Family Life

BOOK REVIEW | Living With Less So Your Family Has More

Title: LIVING WITH LESS SO YOUR FAMILY HAS MORE Authors: Jill and Mark Savage Publisher: Guideposts March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8249-4801-6 Genre: Inspirational/nonfiction/finance The world we live in believes that the more we have, the better off we are. We’re striving for bigger paychecks so we can have that fancy bass boat, the big house in [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Project Dad

Title: PROJECT DAD Author: Todd Cartmell Publisher: Revell April 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8007-1999-9 Genre: Inspirational/parenting What does it take to build a great dad? Men like to build things, usually, and Todd Carmell maintains that they can take this God-given talent to help them become great fathers. Cartmell has a friendly and even humorous style of [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Dear Mom

Title: DEAR MOM Author: Melody Carlson Publisher: WaterBrook Press 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7491-4 Genre: Inspirational/parenting Sometimes it seems like raising a teenager is like trying to chart a course underwater. And girls are ten times harder than boys (or so I’ve been told.) Whichever, you are in for one-word answers, defensive conversations, unpredictable outbursts, and sometimes [...]

BOOK REVIEW | How Do You Tuck In a Superhero?

Title: HOW DO YOU TUCK IN A SUPERHERO? Author: Rachel Balducci Publisher: Revell March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8007-3372-8 Genre: Inspirational/parenting Rachel Balducci knows about raising boys. She has five of them. So she doesn’t have to look very far to find material for her book. I was impressed after reading just the first couple pages how [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Real Solutions for Busy Moms

REAL SOLUTIONS FOR BUSY MOMS by Kathy Ireland Moms are super busy these days, whether they have one child or twelve, and if you have to balance a career with children and a home, then you need help! You need real solutions right now. Ms. Ireland understands. She is the parent of three children, a [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Pray Big for Your Child

PRAY BIG FOR YOUR CHILD  by Will Davis Jr. Talking to your kids is important. Talking to God about them is critical. Sometimes kids are causes of great concern. But even when they aren’t there are still all matters of things that need God’s hand…choosing a vocation, accepting the gift of salvation, their friends, and [...]

BOOK REVIEW | What’s a Mother (in-law) To Do?

What’s a Mother (in-law) To Do? by Jane Angelich There’s a big difference between the mother of the bride and the mother of the groom. This book is written from the perspective of the mother of the groom, trying to do what she can to develop a good relationship with her new daughter-in-law. The author [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Raising Godly Children in an Ungodly World

RAISING GODLY CHILDREN IN AN UNGODLY WORLD by Ken Ham and Steve Ham Ken and Steve Ham are siblings raised by a educator/missionary father in Queensland, Australia, a far from Christian environment. However, their parents were so on fire for the Lord, that Ken and Steve couldn’t help but soak up some of their teaching, [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Get Outta My Face!

GET OUTTA MY FACE! by  Rick Horne Dr. Rick Horne is somewhat an expert in dealing with teens, as the father of six children, and a guidance counselor of a school. So one would be able to assume he knows what he talking about. The facts that Dr. Horne presents in this book are undisputed. [...]

Christian Bookworm Podcast Summer Reading with Ann Kroeker

Christian Bookworm Podcast is delighted to present to you Christian fiction and nonfiction authors this summer. The participating authors will read selected excerpts from their latest book releases. We hope you enjoy the readings and will add the books to your summer reading list. Ann Kroeker is a speaker and author of Not So Fast: [...]