Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences: Explorations with UFO, Dreams, Angels, Al, and Other Dimensions by D.W. Pasulka Book Review

In Encounters, D.W. Pasulka discussed different experiences people have had with nonhuman intelligences and what we can learn from them. She explained how she is a professor on the history of religion. She has personally studied UFO’s, monks and nuns who levitate, purgatory, technological angels, and much more. In the book, she explored the works of key space psychologists such as, Dr. Iya Whiteley. She explained how astronauts would develop their own rules, beliefs, and behaviors and they would choose what is acceptable and what isn’t. She is also trying actively to conduct a way to speak and communicate with nonhuman intelligent species. She is becoming a leader in creating technologies.

 

 

 

 

Another key person in this book was a man called Gray Man. He works for a big research agency and is the head of a laboratory. He personally edited what he shared at least 15 times. He shared his experience with extraterrestrial, nonhuman intelligences, and angels and demons. He explained how he one day woke up to being above him. The creature was assessing him looking at his soul. He was made of light, his hair was long, and he thought it was a pure angel. He felt loved and he wanted to hug him. He couldn’t though because he had a sharp sword. He also met a dark demon and he had to fight it. He shared how this wasn’t a dream and she explained how she thought it was Saint Michael. A few weeks later, he discovered a prayer card of Saint Michael in a box with his passport. In the book, he gave the entire story of how he got that prayer card but he has no idea how it got into that box. He also experienced a few encounters with UFO’s and these stories are breathtaking to read!  

 

 

I would recommend this insightful book about nonhuman intelligences. I loved how it looked at the topic of angels and demons and how they are among us. The stories presented in this book was very descriptive and it allowed you to form your own conclusions. I liked how it had different scientists in different fields sharing their experiences and research all with different backgrounds. I thought in her covering numerous areas and perspectives it assisted in getting her research across. I enjoyed how this book did discuss some of the Christianity beliefs about angels and demons. I thought this chapter was very beneficial and aided us in believing in what we can always see. I wouldn’t say, I’m still a huge believer in aliens or UFO flying in the sky. I haven’t personally saw them and I’m still skeptical. It was still fascinating to read about others who have experienced them. 

 

 

 

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Built Through Courage: Face Your Fears to Live the Life You Were Meant For by Dave Hollis Book Review

In Built Through Courage, Dave Hollis has written a new book about dealing with fear and becoming courageous. He explained how he was the most afraid kid in school and if he had a love language it would be called, worry. He shared in the book how he worked the Walt Disney Company for 17 years. He shared how one of the perks he received there was getting to witness the new unreleased films and provide them with feedback with other key leaders. He was the president of distribution and helped to relaunch Star Wars franchise in 2015. He described in details about how we are like a ship in the harbor and many of held anchored down. We believe the stories we are told. We all love the safety of calm storms. He explained how he felt lost and he wasn’t at the destination in life he wanted to be at. In 2019, he made a declaration that the year 2020 would become his best year. He had just turned 45 years old. He had a goal to do a big book tour and as we all know what happened. Everything got cancelled with Covid. His world also began to fall completely apart. His wife of 16 years wanted a divorce. He has a rough start and was able to bounce back and still have a good year. He was actively supporting his wife’s dreams and The Hollis Company they began. He was tired of following someone else’s map. In the book, he shared how Peter walked on water and he has to give his limiting beliefs to God. He enclosed at the end of each chapter a journaling activity logbook to assist readers into brainstorming and thinking about what the core messages of the chapters were. 

 

 

One of my favorite chapters discussed defining your core values. Some of his included, “centeredness, advocacy, growth, service”, just to name a few. He was tired of compromising and not living out what he believed. He guides readers on how to figure out their own values and how to instill integrity and make a different in the world. Everyone needs to ask themselves what they stand for. He explored how we don’t need to negotiate our worth and keep people who are making us question do we matter. This chapter will help readers to stop allowing people to control us and to not give them the license to determine our worth. 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book on dealing with your fear and having courage to not stay anchored in the harbor. I immensely loved the message and all of the journaling sections that assisted readers into digging deeper into the topics. I was touched by this book and the message on fear that he discussed with such passion. He really did try and help readers to overcome their fears and to build their courage. As we have probably heard by now, in 2023, he tragically passed away from an accidently overdose at age 47. This was truly shocking news when I heard that. His books seemed to have such a positive message in them. What was heartbreaking was he asked a critical question about what if, he had two years left to live how would he live his life differently. He really only had two years left to live and he didn’t know it! 

 

 

 

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The Body Code: Unlocking Your Body's Ability to Heal Itself by Dr. Bradley Nelson Book Review

 

In The Body Code, Dr. Bradley Nelson helps readers to decode and fix whatever issues that are affecting our bodies. This whole book is a knowledge base explaining each role of the body. This book has helped readers with physical pain, fatigue, infertility, depression, anxiety, PTSD, painful memories, and much more. The book stated how a recent study discovered that only 5 % of the world’s population have no heath problems. The United States is also the most country to spend money on health care – around $9,237 and we have the youngest death rates. He explained how we tend to mask the symptoms and we don’t ever deal with the imbalances that is causing us the issues. He stated how, “every symptom we suffer from is a message.” This book will assist readers into discovering freedom from their imbalances in their bodies. He broke the six imbalances into categories, such as energy, pathogens, toxins, and misalignment, just to name some. The book also conversed the power of magnets and how they contain a pure source of energy. 

 

 

 

 

 

In the book, he shared a personal story about his exposure to alternative medicine. When he was 13 years old, he suffered from bad back pain and it would affect his breathing. They discovered he had a kidney disease and he was given a 55% survival rate. The doctors strongly suggested that he not play or run. Western medicine wasn’t providing in solutions. He met with two doctors who would look at the body as a whole. They used herbal drinks and they helped to realign his spine. He was healed and was free from his pain. 

 

 

 

 

 

A powerful story he shared was about a child abuse case. His man suffered from the fear of heights. When he was 4 years old, his dad place on the top of the fridge and instructed him to jump. He promised he would catch him and he didn’t. He proceeds to let him fall. He told him he let him fall where he could learn a lesson about how we should never trust anyone. He was able to help him deal with his pain and overcome his fears. 

 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book to anyone who is wanting to get rid of all of the imbalances and they are wanting healing. One of my favorite lessons was about how to find and release a trapped emotion and breaks it all down into a nice flow chart and steps by steps. I also connected with the allergies section and it was very insightful to read about how we can become allergic to an idea in our subconscious. This is all mind-blowing type of stuff and was very beneficial. I really enjoyed all of the personal healing stories he enclosed in this book. There were tons that will help readers to find healings. This book is one that is meant to be relooked at again and again. It’s not just a one-time read and put away book. 

 

 

 

 

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Life’s Messy, Live Happy: Things Don’t Have to Be Perfect for You to Be Content by Cy Wakeman Book Review

 

In Life’s Messy, Live Happy, Cy Wakeman teaches readers how to find happiness and learning to be content no matter what we face in life. She explained how she had a messy life. She made some bad choices when she was in her 20s. She was dating the wrong type of guy. She got involved in drugs, alcohol, and wanted him to love her. In school, she was determined to get straight A’s and being the teacher’s pet and wanted to be perfect. He ended up cheating on her with her best friend and she struggled with leaving him. Each time he would become more demanding. A counselor ended up helping her on the road to recovery and she found healing. 

 

 

She shared how her best friend died from stage four breast cancer. She met her at a Behavioral Health center and they became fast friends for over 30 years. She explained how they relied on gratitude and tried to focus on being present in the moment. She revealed key principles she used to create a gratitude practice. Some these included, “acknowledge impermanence, if not grateful for, then grateful while, develop mental flexibility, stay curious, just to name a few. She teaches readers how to learn to breathe, learning to feel your emotions, become generous, and asking questions. 

 

 

One of the most powerful lessons in the book was the key word, “given”. This can assist us in reframe our thinking and our obstacles. It helped us to see the potential and to witness how it could be. We can stop focusing on why something can’t happen. This provide people a way to rethink about what they are thinking about and to see the possibilities. This will become a powerful tool for us to use to happily enjoy the moment. 

 

 

 

In the book, she opened up about how she struggled in her marriage. She faced money problems when her consulting company went out of business. She lost lucrative contracts and should have written up cancellation policies. Her husband felt betrayed and her also invested in her dream. It led to conflicts in their marriage. After 23 years of marriage, he wanted to get a divorce. He almost died 5 years before that when he fell into a pool and hit his head and she saved him. He chose to leave her and his four sons. She explained her experiences with her two marriages. She also shared how her husband was also having multiple affairs. She revealed in the book how she dealt with the changes and how she found clarity. 

 

 

I would recommend this impactful book to anyone who is seeking happiness and contentment and they are tired of feeling stressed out. I immensely loved how principles she enclosed in this book and how she was very open in sharing how she had to learn to happy going through difficult life changes. I liked how she explained how we can all learn to recover from self-abandonment and to give ourselves compassion and not be too hard on ourselves. She covered a wide range of topics and how she discovered her own happiness. Her story is a very relatable story for readers to connect with. 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Elegant Warrior: How To Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself by Heather Hansen Book Review

In The Elegant Warrior, Heather Hansen explored the different facets of being a lawyer and how we can apply it to our lives. She is a trial lawyer and has defended medical malpractice cases for over 20 years. She has done legal analysis for Fox News, CNN, and a few others. She has personally dealt with dead mothers, paralyzed lovers, babies harmed, and catastrophic injuries that changed their lives. She explained how she can count on one hand the number of cases she lost. She shared how she was assisting this one young man who was dealing with pain for years. He was taking anxiety medication regularly. He had a withdraw seizure and broke his arm and got a concussion and he sued the doctor. He shared how she took his entire story apart on the stand. Before he testified, he explained to his mother how she helped him with her shoes and how nice she was towards him. She felt bad but she had to expose him. She explained how his story was inconsistent and the timing was off. She admitted to afterwards crying in her RAV4 and pondering if she was true to who she was. She struggled with being kind and also being firm because she had a case to win. This is where the idea for the book came to be. We can all be elegant warriors and we all contain the ability to be true to ourselves no matter what battles we may face along the way. We can learn the balance between being elegant with compassion and not losing ourselves in battle. Each chapter is written with the idea to focus on one aspect of the law. Some of these included complaining, choosing your army, nurturing your team, knowing when to settle, picking people well, strike with questions, and much more. 

 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book written from a lawyer. I enjoyed how she covered everything leading up to the trial and court date. She showed details on all the behind the scenes that occur. I appreciated how open she was in the importance of making your point across in the first three minutes and not falling into the cruse of knowledge. She really tried to help readers to understand how critical it is to ask questions where we will know more knowledge and in turn will help to understand more clearly and help our audience to understand. Making a first impression is very important and it’s something we won’t every forget. Empathy can be obtained when we choose to ask questions. I loved how she related all of the lessons we can learn in the court room to real life and becoming an elegant worker. I’m glad she shared personal examples of some of the cases she took on and sometimes the stories would even be humorous. 

 

 

 

 

 

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You Matter: Learning to Love Who You Really Are by Matthew Emerzian Book Review

In You Matter, Matthew Emerzian has a major goal of assisting readers into realizing that they matter. The book is divided into three sections, I Matter, You Matter, and We Matter. He opened up in the introduction about how he hit rock bottom. He suffered from a deep trauma and had difficult seeing. He was sweating and breathing heavily. He decided to try and drive to his doctor’s. He told him it was mental and not physically. He instructed him to go home and rest and to ask himself touch questions. He needed to discover his purpose and significance. He diagnosed him with depression and chronic anxiety disorder.

 

 

In the book, he opened up about how he began working for Robert Kardashian and helped him manage artists. They produced DVD’s, music, live shows, music videos, and much more. He worked with Tim McGraw, Black Eyed Peas, U2, Coldplay, and many more. He fell into the after parties and started drinking, partying, smoking, and objectifying women. This is what led him into falling into his depression. He eventually got a therapist and she helped him to see how it’s not about him. She helped him to see the importance of serving others and this led him into finding out his significance. 

 

 

 

One of my favorites stories was about how he played water polo and loved the sport. He shared how critical it is to have a community in which you fit into. As we age and get older, we lose our sense of building relationships and friendship. We all have felt the void. He shared how he had a special friend who randomly asked him for his phone number while they were swimming. The man remembered his number and never wrote it down! It turned out he had autism who has a photograph memory. He watched him make friends with everyone he met and asked them to be his friend. He even braided his hair. Unfortunately, in the writing of his book, he lost touch with him and it’s been about three years. Most of the people have moved away from that pool. He shared how authentic Chris was and he would freely live his life and not be pressed by the judgments of others. He strongly suggests that we answer the difficult question on what is holding us back. He tries to assist us in becoming more authentic and genuine. He revealed the hidden truth of self-fulfilling prophecy and how we tend to always judges others and others and this is preventing us from truly being ourselves. Many of us wouldn’t have the confidence to sing or dance or do anything freely without the fear of us feeling like we will be judged for it. The lesson of the day was for us to choose one song that we can dance or sing to and it can become our official song of the day and make it our song. We need to identify what is holding us back in each area of our lives and write down the reasons why using the 5-why’s strategy and keep asking until we get to the real reason that none of it makes sense. 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is wanting to understand the concept of why they matter and how importance they are in the world and how they can reach out to others. This book is a wonderful example on serving others and taking the focus off our ourselves. I immensely loved the stories presented in this book and how turned each chapter into a big lesson we can all learn something from. I also loved how the lessons enclosed helpful prompts to write down in our journal and to have conversation starters and to also take action to live it out. I really enjoyed the positive spins he enclosed in this book to help readers to understand why they matter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Restart Roadmap: Rewire and Reset Your Career By Jason Tartick Book Review

 

In The Restart Roadmap, Jason Tartick helped readers to redefine their life and make a fresh start in their career paths. He shared how he climbed the ladder of success in the financial corporation field and he would move whoever they wanted him to go where he could still get promotion and benefits. He begins the book by sharing his battle with anxiety and he literally felt his heartbeat speed up. He was in a meeting with his senior banker and junior banker with other top clients. He shared how this led to him feeling like he was in a career prison Monday thru Friday. He was following a script and in a rut. His only day of feeling completely free was on Saturday’s and he was free to be himself. Cause on Sunday’s he was battling anxiety of what was coming next. He was living his life in the 14.3% of every week and this equal to 11.3 years. This book’s goal is to assist readers in restarting their lives and getting their career’s back on track on how they want to live their lives. He explored 8 key strategies throughout the book. One of the things, he looked at was the topic of where you should live and exploring the issues, we tend to take into account the money factor. 

 

 

 

In the book, he explained how made a spot on the Bachelorette and how he approached his banker’s higher ups with a letter stating how he wanted to take a leave and go on the show. They allowed him to use his time off and go on the show. He also opened up about how we must be very careful with our commitments and being overly loyal and how it can come back to bite us. He explained how if we are a W-2 employee we have no power and it's all up to our employer. He also was very honest with how he was fired from the banker’s field whenever his girlfriend, Kaitlyn made a comment about their sex life on her podcast. It had to be deleted by the network. In the end, his “almost ten years of banking, 7 relocation, and nine nearly perfect performance reviews meant nothing.” He was able to negotiate a fair exit plan. 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is wanting a new start in their career. I immensely was shocked to read about how only 37% of people will ask for a raise. This is mind blowing to me. I really enjoyed the topic of negotiating and knowing what our worth is. I liked how he explored body language, the secrets of the hiring process, and how to stand out and get noticed. All of the topics were beneficial in learning about to restart your life and seeking a new career path if that’s what you are wanting. I’m not a huge fan of the Bachelorette or Bachelor in general so I didn’t know how I would like this book. But I felt the author was very knowledgeable in the field of business and he was trying to help readers to get a fresh start. This discussed some of the TV show but it was mainly focused on assisting readers in restarting their careers. 

 

 

 

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Forgotten Bones: Dead Remaining Book 1 by Vivian Barz Book Review

Forgotten Bones is a murder mystery book. Derek Ritzeman was driving when his intoxicated girlfriend, Danica was distracting him by trying to perform sex acts on him. He ended up hitting a telephone pole and he thought he ran over a small boy. It was later revealed that the body had been there buried for some time. The cop, Susan was determined to figure out who did the murder. Eric Evans was a college professor who had schizophrenic. He shared how he saw stuff and heard things that others couldn’t see or hear. Eric’s wife, Maggie also cheated on him and messed him up. She chose to have an affair with his best friend, colleague, and older brother, Jim. They told chalked it up to him just imagining and being paranoid. They got engaged and she was pregnant with Jim’s child. This added fuel to the fire. Eric eventually started seeing a boy in overalls and has visions of different murders that are uncovered. The police and the FBI have their own ideas on who did the killings and Susan believes something else entirely is going on. 

 

 

I liked reading this mystery book and how thrilling it was in trying to figure out who did the murders. At first, we all was led to believe it was a part of a sexual predators committing the crimes and it had gone unnoticed for years. The ending was something I didn’t see coming and I loved the different turns it took readers by surprise. This book had a Criminal Minds fill to the book it just wasn’t as twisted as that show is. I also liked how the author shared how she tried to paint schizophrenic in different light than how it normally is presented. I was excited to learn that this is actually a new series. 

 

 

 

 

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Mission Possible: Go Create a Life That Counts by Tim Tebow with A.J. Gregory Book Review

 

In Mission Possible, Tim Tebow explored our paths to discovering our purpose in life and making an impact in other people’s lives. We are all called to live a mission filled lifestyle that showcased all of the good works that God has prepared for us. He explained how Paul stated how we are a workmanship created by Jesus to do His good works and God has prepared us to work in them. We are called to make a difference and help people who are hurting. He shared how he was called to start the Tim Tebow Foundation after meeting a little boy in the Philippines who was born with his feet on backward. Their mission statement is one that touches on how they want to bring faith, hope, and love to people who are in need. 

 

 

 

He revealed a heartbreaking study that was completed and they found people who are 51 to 61 who didn’t have a purpose to live for in life was more likely to die. He shared how we all created in God’s image and we need to know our worth and the power of who lives inside us. When we truly believe this, we will find new meaning for living and discovering our purpose. He encouraged readers to become a part of the rescue mission for people. This includes clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, showing mercy, speaking up for people who don’t have a voice, and being kind. In the book, he investigated what encompasses a good mission statement. He provided questions to get people on the right track in brainstorming what their mission statement could be in life. Each mission statement is special in the fact that everyone has their own calling they are supposed to follow. 

 

 

I liked reading the story about Natalie and how he helped rescue her from human trafficking. His organization has been serving in that area secretly for seven years and they didn’t publicly announce it until 2020. Natalie was sold for sex beginning when she was four or five years old. She lived in a camper with no electricity or running water. Her parents were drug addicts and they would sell their children for sex regularly to make them money where they could keep purchasing drugs. People judged her at school because she was dirty and wore the same clothes daily. She suffered from PTSD, anxiety, depression, and much more. She eventually went into the military and had to drop out. She was homeless and met two men who promised her a better life. They would kindly pay for her room, food, gas for her car. They drilled the door shut and starved her. She was sold for sex and one day she tried to flee and collapsed. A neighbor called 911 and at the hospital a social worker helped her get free. She has since has received her associate degree and works at the same hospital she was rescued at. This helped him to get a passion for helping others. 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book on forming and crafting our mission. It was interesting to read about how he proposed to Demi and the thoughts behind it. He was able to relate this example to part of his mission. It also liked how he opened up about his struggle with feeling confident when he was speaking in public. You wouldn’t have picture him struggling with public speaking, since he is now a Christian speaker. Part of what helped him was his teacher, Miss Nancy and her positively influence she had on him. She knew her mission was to help students in choir class. I also liked how he discussed the importance of having a strong work ethic. We need to practice making solutions instead of just complaining when things go wrong. Integrity is something we can all learn to strive for and cultivate it daily. 

 

 

 

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The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society by Mauro F. Guillen Book Review

In The Perennials, Mauro F. Guillen explored the new trends that occurring in the different generations and how times are changing. He defined the term perennials as, “people who are not characterized by the decade in which they were born but rather by the way they work, learn, and interact with others.”  He explained how creativity boosts on their twenties and again in their fifties. In their 20’s they rely more on cognitive abilities and when their brain slows down, they rely more on their experience. He looked at BMW’s pioneering and how they choose to approach mutigenerational workplace. They strive to mix over fix generations where they can all collaborate together with their own perspectives and this led to greater productivity and higher job satisfaction. In the book, he also looked at how the common trend is having three careers in a lifetime, how retirement is changing, inheriting, consumer market, and longevity and health. 

 

 

The book explored the role of the nuclear family structure and how it has changed and fallen. Children used to always move out of their parents’ homes and they would get married and raise their own children. He looked at the history and how divorce and separation is causing more single parent households. There is also an increasing happening of being choosing to live alone all together. They are being described as singletons and some choose to never marry or have children. It also means that living alone is becoming more expensive. There is a trend of seeing the breakdown of the sequential model and the nuclear family. Some of this is related to independence and more self-reliance. He shared how young adults without a college degree are living with their parents. In the past, we believed that parents at some point in life would be empty nesters and this is greatly changing. 

 

 

I would recommend this wonderful book on the mutigenerational workplace and family dynamic to anyone who is wanting to earn more about what is occurring right now. I loved how he did tons of research for this book and included a number of different studies to clarify the message of this book. I was shocked by reading about the benefits of flex work and how this helped people to feel less stressed and this in fact prevent job burnout. People are also less likely to retire or quit their jobs. I wonder if companies would provide this key feature how much more happiness, we would in turn witness. There should be a fine line balance between work and living your life. Companies could also see less turn over and not waste their times in training someone who doesn’t want to stay. This book is an incredible resource for us to use to learn more about the mutigenerational and the changes that are happening. 

 

 

 

 

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Walking Free: Taking Small Steps to a Big God by Micah Tyler with Robert Noland Book Revie

 

 

In Walking Free, Micah Tyler has invited reader through a forty-two-day journey in getting free from whatever things that our holding us back. He first began the book by sharing a story from Kyle Idleman Bible Study. He since grew on the story and did more research on the topic. The United States created a special job force to assist people during the Great Depression. They would choose what jobs they would want to participate in and they were provided to accomplish the tasks. In one town, they hired a lot of unemployed men to help build a road that used to be wilderness. They were all hopeful and excited for the work. They would come in early and stay late to work on the road. They finally got the courage to ask the government official where the road was going to be leading to and he told them it was a road to nowhere. It was created only to help make money. They eventually lost the motivation and production decreased and people stopped showing up for work. They lost their purpose. 

 

 

This led to Micah in following his God given dreams of pursing music and ministry. He also explained how becoming a songwriter that this opened the doors for him to be tested and challenged. One of the stories, he shared was about the song he wrote entitled, “Walking Free”. His brother, Daniel has battled cancer twice. He beat it the first time and then it returned in 2020 and they were able to remove the tumor. The cancer has since come back in 2022 with even more tumors and he’s still battling it today. You would have thought his brother would have stopped serving others. He goes through treatments one day and then he will still go back to his students. Micah explained how this song is about walking free alongside Christ through whatever we may face. He is with us when we go through the fire. 

 

 

A powerful lesson he discussed was on how they lived in a single wide mobile home. They all shared it as a family all three kids. The younger child didn’t even have a room and he had to share with his brother in a twin bed, This taught them to live peaceful in tight quarters. They did eventually save up to build their dream home. His younger didn’t have his own room until he was six years old. One day, he asked him what he preferred the trailer or the house. He was shocked when his son, Seth told him the trailer. His response was because all of his memories are there. He learned to bike, share a room, and much more. His son was fulfilled where he was and he didn’t know that there could be anything better. This taught him to reply on God and appreciate the waiting process. God may be building us up inside so when we do get what we are hoping for we will have room in our heart to be grateful for the blessing. 

 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book to anyone is seeking a book to assist them in walking free from anything that is hinder them from growing. I really enjoyed reading about how he got signed as a Christian artist and how God caused him to be in the right place at the right time and he was networked by divine connections. I liked how he shared some of the background from some of his songs and how they came to be. It was cool in learning from the songwriter perceptive and I was able to relate even more to the stories told in his songs. I liked how he designed the book to be daily/ or weekly journey and readers can take small steps each day. I also liked how each day contained next-step questions to help readers dive deeper into the message. 

 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, K-Love Books for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

 

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https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Free-Taking-Small-Steps/dp/1954201419/

Believe for It: Passing Faith to the Next Generation by Cece Winans with Suzanne Grosselin Book Review

In Believe for It, Cece Winans helped readers to understand the importance of passing on our faith in Christ to the next generation. She opened up about how she grew up in a Christian home.  She explained how she was the eighth child born into her father. But she was the very first Winans. In the book, she revealed how that name came to be. She shared how her whole family grew up singing and her house was filled with music. Her parents come from broken homes and when they married, they made a vow to stay together and raise Godly children. They helped lay the foundation for a relationship with Christ and this in turn led her to passing on her faith to the next generation. She explained how she became a gospel recording artist and how she raised her own two children to love God and keep the faith going throughout the generations. 

 

 

In 2012, her and her husband, Alvin started a church named, Nashville Life Church. They were both nearing retirement age and God called them to start a church. She revealed how 15 years prior to starting the church a woman boldly stated how they would one day her husband would become a pastor. He was often mistaken for a pastor in different places he went. She shared how her son also returned home from Australia and they would pray that he would come back to his faith. He ended up coming back and this led to them starting a church. She stated a heartbreaking statement, “roughly 40 percent were missing a dad or mom in the home while growing up.” She explained how faith is becoming less and less popular and how we need to change that and merge all of the generations together. She also looked at the verse that stated for us to not look down on younger people and how we must be an example to them with our love, faith, and actions. She shared how she begin to enjoy the intergenerational relationships that are in her church. 

 

 

Worldliness is being more prevalent and the enemy is working overtime to make us believe his lies. One of the big lies he will use against us when we are trying to pass on our faith to others is that the task is that we aren’t qualified. He makes us believe that we aren’t good enough to follow God’s will and plan for our lives. Most of us have at some point said to ourselves that we could never do that. She recalled how scripture reminds us that we are able to anything through Christ. She personally shared how she didn’t think she could stand up on stage and teach for one hour. She had to overcome that fear and believe that she could carry out God’s will for her life. Another area that we believe that we are failures and we could never lead the next generation because of our past sins. She carefully clarified how everyone is a sinner and if we waited until we perfect, then none of us would be leading others. The Bible is filled with imperfect people, Rebekah, Joseph, David, and much more. Many of us may be living with shame and letting it dictate how we live our lives. Jesus died where we can stop feeling guilty over our past sins. 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book on passing on our faith to our children to every single parent, grandparent, and to people who don’t have children. We all can be a positively influence for the next generations and Cece talks to all readers on ways they can do that. I appreciated how she understood how some of us may be burned out and struggling with our mental health but there is hope. We can get refreshed and then work towards sowing faith into the next generation. I liked how she encouraged us to seek God and study the scriptures and pass them on to the next generation. She even had a nice suggestion if you don’t have children, you can start a Bible study and engage with the younger generation. I also liked how she explained the roles of different ages and how we all must work together for the Kingdom of God. I thought she did a wonderful job in sharing her own hardships and how she lost one of her brothers and this was one of her darkest days. She was very real in trying to help others through their own adversity. It was interesting to read about how the idea for her first live album came to be right before the pandemic. It was cool to hear about how the song, Believe for It was written and how it was the very last song for the record that ended up become the theme for the entire record. The idea come when one of the producers was mowing his lawn of all things. They were searching for a song that declared that we are believing that God is able to the impossible. As we have heard the song by now, the lyrics of this song has changed lives! 

 

 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, K-Love Books for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Believe-Passing-Faith-Next-Generation/dp/1954201346