06.29.09
Mom Needs Chocolate: Hugs Humor and Hope for Surviving Motherhood
Debora M. Coty is a woman on a mission. Since answering God’s call to write six years ago, Debora has published over 80 articles in international magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, and signed 11 book contracts! Her latest, Mom NEEDS Chocolate, just released from Regal Books and is endorsed by legendary funny ladies Martha Bolton and Patsy Clairmont.
Mom NEEDS Chocolate: Hugs, Humor and Hope for Surviving Motherhood puts moms back in touch with rejuvenating joy and empowering faith. From outrageous coping tips to off-the-wall 
insights, Coty’s humorous book will have you laughing out loud. With witty frankness and wild abandon, she tackles the highs and lows of marriage, the horror of embarrassing children, and the defeat (and re-defeat) of depression. If you’ve been wondering lately why in the world you embarked on the journey of motherhood, then Debora Coty has the perfect reminder in this book.
You can learn more about Debora (and her other books) at www.deboracoty.com.
06.28.09
Review – He Loves Me
This book is a hug from Heaven.
Wayne Jacobsen offers a chapter-by-chapter reiteration and reassurance of one unalterable, inarguable fact: God loves you. That glorious truth is unconditional. No need to ever again play “He loves me … He loves me not,” based on life’s circumstances and situations. Leave your daisies to grow naturally in your garden. Nothing you can do will make God love you less; nothing you do will make Him love more.
He just loves you.
You have been precious to Him since before the world was created. He loved you when Adam was still a lump of clay. He longed for your reciprocating affection eons prior to his first wail as an infant in Bethlehem. You were His favored child even as He carried His own cross up that hill to Calvary.
He loves you.
Just as He did with Adam and Eve, God longs to be your Friend. Your Father. He yearns for that close, personal, intimate relationship that comes only when true, untarnished love is freely given and received between two individuals. He won’t demand it. He’s chosen not to force it, because let’s face it—true love doesn’t happen via coercion. Such unnatural affection would be a weak and unsatisfactory facsimile, not good enough for the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
In simple terms and straightforward fashion, the author paints an unforgettable portrait of a Father waiting with outstretched arms for His child…His cherished friend to accept his affection—and return it, so they two can enjoy the fullness of a loving relationship. Jacobsen builds his premise largely on that relationship: what it is, how to achieve it, what it means to each participant.
Woven through the entire book is the one golden thread of simple truth: God. Loves. You. If you ever wondered about that; if you ever needed assurance that He knows you—who you are, why you are, and that you matter to Him; if you ever just wished you could feel His arms around you, read this book.
Your hug is on the way.
06.20.09
Review – So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore
by Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman
(Jake Colsen)
Meet Jake Colsen, Associate Pastor. He has it all. A good job with more than adequate salary, a loving wife, two children, and plenty of respect and prestige.
But then he meets John and his world turns upside down. Could this stranger be the Apostle John, still alive, still spreading the gospel?
Over the next four years, through a series of conversations with John, Jake goes on a personal odyssey that makes him rethink everything he thought he knew about God and the church as a whole. In the process, he loses everything he thought was important, but discovers a whole new life, and a whole new relationship with the Father.
The authors have produced a revolutionary look at the church world. This book has the potential to change generations of tradition, and alter the status quo of organized religion.
If you’re content with your spirituality; if attending Sunday services makes you feel like a satisfied Christian; if you don’t need a spiritual jolt – a shot to the soul, then don’t read this book. So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore will change the way you think about church and the body of Christ. It will transform your life.
Take the hand of a mysterious stranger and find out who Jesus really is. Meet God, and become His friend. Turn your world upside down.
