The Afternoon of Life

Book Review "Zealous for Good Works" by Todd A. Wilson What a challenging read for the Christian with a heart to grow the Kingdom of God through obedience to the Scriptures.  Wilson has logically, spiritually and forcefully captured the spirit of the writings of Titus in this well-organized, enthusiastic and uplifting volume.  He asks the question, “Is your church transforming the community?” and from there builds on the steps needed to take the church all the way up to becoming a city on a hill! Chapter titles are intriguing and it’s hard not to take a shortcut through to those that look more interesting, but one will certainly lose out on the flow of this book by doing so.  He explains why he chose the book of Titus to help the church grow to become a serving church and not just a body of believers.  He asks another question:  “What Turns a Place Upside Down?” and goes on to illuminate the importance of excellent preaching in the church.  H...

Jonathan Cahn has a third home run in his writing of “The Paradigm”.  The book is a gateway book that actually helps to set the stage for his third book “The Harbinger”, which was also an out-of-the-park volume.  Both books are fictional, but there’s so much Scripture involved that they feel factual.  Most of the information shared in both books is factual and can be confirmed through reading of the Scriptures and through Internet searches.  It’s hard to call the historical fiction because the history shared in both books is less than fifty years old in many places…but history it is.  While “The Harbinger” refers to events around 9-11-2001, “The Paradigm” is going to take us back to the Old Testament reign of Ahab and Jezebel, comparing their governing to recent principles in our own immediate history…and it’s a fascinating comparison.  There is little to “contrast”…because Cahn has found the stories to be almost identical in scope, purpose and ending...