A forceful, biblically literate manual for success.
A Christianity-infused guide to life.
In this book, Borode proposes for his readers a seven-step system for improving their day-to-day experience. The author clearly considers his target audience for this book to be fellow Christians; at the beginning, he asserts that all his readers have come to his book through the Christian God. However, he exhorts this readership to clarify their thoughts and feelings on a wide variety of matters—urging them to reject mediocrity, for instance, and to avoid procrastination. A consistent theme running throughout the book is the importance of free will: “Every man is the architect of his fortune or misfortune,” he writes, noting that it’s crucial to take the right attitude. He offers concrete steps to help to get in this correct frame of mind, particularly when it comes to the temptation to put things off: “There are lots of people who should have made fortunes in their lifetime,” he points out, “but who got to the grave before realizing that they have missed their time due to procrastination.” Some passages feel inconsistent; at the book’s beginning, for instance, he warns readers that “we tend to blame an unknown enemy or an imaginary adversary for our problems” instead of ourselves, and at the end, he attributes many problems to an outside party: “the devil himself, who is the greatest adversary of the human race.” However, Christian readers will appreciate how biblically informed his ruminations are and find it comforting that he has a quotation from Scripture for every occasion. The work is stern but encouraging throughout, and each chapter includes sections that welcome direct reader engagement, including “Points to Consider”; “Verse to Consider,” which offers an on-point Bible verse; and a discussion question titled “Food for Thought.”
A forceful, biblically literate manual for success.Pub Date: Dec. 5, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-73-539421-3
Page Count: 222
Publisher: Vision Titles Publishing
Review Posted Online: June 4, 2021
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.
A compendium of charts, time lines, lists and illustrations to accompany study of the Bible.
This visually appealing resource provides a wide array of illustrative and textually concise references, beginning with three sets of charts covering the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament and the New Testament. These charts cover such topics as biblical weights and measures, feasts and holidays and the 12 disciples. Most of the charts use a variety of illustrative techniques to convey lessons and provide visual interest. A worthwhile example is “How We Got the Bible,” which provides a time line of translation history, comparisons of canons among faiths and portraits of important figures in biblical translation, such as Jerome and John Wycliffe. The book then presents a section of maps, followed by diagrams to conceptualize such structures as Noah’s Ark and Solomon’s Temple. Finally, a section on Christianity, cults and other religions describes key aspects of history and doctrine for certain Christian sects and other faith traditions. Overall, the authors take a traditionalist, conservative approach. For instance, they list Moses as the author of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) without making mention of claims to the contrary. When comparing various Christian sects and world religions, the emphasis is on doctrine and orthodox theology. Some chapters, however, may not completely align with the needs of Catholic and Orthodox churches. But the authors’ leanings are muted enough and do not detract from the work’s usefulness. As a resource, it’s well organized, inviting and visually stimulating. Even the most seasoned reader will learn something while browsing.
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-5963-6022-8
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This a book of earlier, philosophical essays concerned with the essential "absurdity" of life and the concept that- to overcome the strong tendency to suicide in every thoughtful man-one must accept life on its own terms with its values of revolt, liberty and passion. A dreary thesis- derived from and distorting the beliefs of the founders of existentialism, Jaspers, Heldegger and Kierkegaard, etc., the point of view seems peculiarly outmoded. It is based on the experience of war and the resistance, liberally laced with Andre Gide's excessive intellectualism. The younger existentialists such as Sartre and Camus, with their gift for the terse novel or intense drama, seem to have omitted from their philosophy all the deep religiosity which permeates the work of the great existentialist thinkers. This contributes to a basic lack of vitality in themselves, in these essays, and ten years after the war Camus seems unaware that the life force has healed old wounds... Largely for avant garde aesthetes and his special coterie.
Pub Date: Sept. 26, 1955
ISBN: 0679733736
Page Count: 228
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Sept. 19, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1955
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