Highly Recommended as a Fun, Yet Biblical Teaching

Fun, encouraging and a blessing to read.

A Family Guide to Joy by Travis L. Zimmerman is a fun and interactive guide written for families, individuals, small groups Bible studies and challenge-seekers, helping all to find joy in All circumstances. 

Sound biblical teaching set forth a quick read that reveals a discovery process to joy in following Jesus’ example. Each chapter offers study questions that include a step-by-step teaching, as readers are given a deeper understanding of the process of the Christian walk into increased faith that results in finding joy. This guide specifically presents Jesus as our example. The author states, “In essence, Jesus teaches us how to turn our burdens into joy.” Written to help Christians grasp a higher understanding of the walk as a disciple of Christ, this easy guide addresses finding joy in all of life’s journeys.

Further stating that, “We often all experience our share of good times and bad times- often concurrently.” Each chapter addresses Jesus’ roadmap to joy in each circumstance of life. This book encourages readers to view their circumstances through the lens of Scripture, giving a brand-new perspective to challenges and trials. Key Scripture teaches the premise of James 1:2-3 to, “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.”

With a Free App, families, friends and co-workers can connect to each other in a new interactive way, introducing a 12-Step Challenge of Joy. This is a signed declaration helping readers to take a journey to joy in their own life.

A Family Guide to Joy is a refreshing and fun way to discovering joy as you connect with Jesus and one another! The author has designed a uniquely practical guide to help you on your own journey to finding joy through all life’s challenges.

This book comes highly recommended as a fun, yet biblical teaching, keeping Jesus as the focus along with the Word of God as a solid foundation! A CBM Christian Book Review - 10.0 out of 10.0+ stars

To find out more about Travis L. Zimmerman, his ministry and his books, visit A Faithful Dad. You may also get your copy of A Family Guide to Joy at Amazon.

Inspiring, Beautiful, Touching, and Thoughtful

A CBM Christian Book Review ~ 10.0 out of 10.0 stars. Sifting Through the Sand by Anela Lani is a collection of poetic musings, thoughts, emotions, and stances combining life experiences of the writer in a poetic collection, revealing a spiritual journey. Inspiring, beautiful, touching, thoughtful and cleansing can only describe some of her poems. I truly enjoyed reading her book.

Divided in two sections: Shifting Sands and Salt and Light, one will see a transformation from someone searching for inner peace, joy and happiness from a worldview, to one who has found God, and His peace, joy and light.

The division is visible, and the latter writings reflect a woman who went from striving, to rest, discovering her journey and herself. These collections are meant to inspire and reflect the beauty of the inner journey of finding meaning and purpose in life, as well as speaking on a variety of different themes and subjects.

The author has included a quote for A.W. Tozer that encompasses her search for “truth” and believes that most human beings have a desire to find home, belonging and purpose in their lives. From this truth, she has written poems that will uplift and encourage, that, at some point, readers will identify with the commonality expressed in some or many of the short poems.

Sifting Through the Sand is a delightful and insightful journey into literature for the novice or the mature reader alike. And also comes highly recommended read as an inspirational book that reflects beauty in all things and a book that will also make a wonderful gift for family and friends. Be sure to pick up an extra copy as a blessing for someone else.

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An Excellent Read

Beginning with Matthew 7:13-14 stating, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” This book is about one’s belief system in God. 

With Biblical integrity, coupled with wisdom and common sense, the author truthfully states that your choices on Earth will affect your eternity. Intriguing, and filled with Scripture that explain the purpose of life on Earth, this book gives a road map to finding God and knowing God, finding salvation, obeying God and discovering true purpose in life through the knowledge of God and His Word.

The book is further dedicated to those that would believe that (as stated by the author), “The deception of Satan tells us that all we need to do to be with Christ for eternity is believe.” In that statement, he addresses, what is sometimes called “cheap grace.” This is where one believes not in repentance, but the forgiveness of sins without a turning away from sin, known as true repentance from the heart. Further discussing other beliefs such as non-belief, as in Atheism, and other beliefs about God that include such theories as “The Big Bang Theory”, the authors sequentially address all of the roads that one may “think” leads them to God and to heaven.

The authors further address the issue of hope and the “looking for love in all the wrong places,” as the old saying goes and gives readers a choice with thought-provoking analysis, what are you searching for knowing that when you die you can’t take anything with you? Material wealth is of no consequence after one dies, thus one path leads to life (salvation and eternity in heaven); and the other path is broad, leading many to an untimely and destructive end. The broad path is deceiving, in such Edward Mrkvicka addresses the heart and mind attitudes that may lead one on that path. With such chapters as: Getting to Know the One Who Knows You the Best, Salvation 101, Obedience: The Lynchpin of our Faith, Jesus is Not Merely Your Savior, the author helps readers discover a relationship, not a religion.

Stating their case for God throughout (i.e. creation), readers are offered knowledge of Who God is according to the “God of the Bible,” not what they may want God to be in their mind. Then the book gives readers an understanding of salvation and why it is so important to be saved. Everyone wants to go to heaven and the reality is that not everyone will go. His book is written to inform, exhort, instruct, encourage and to inspire those that would choose this temporal world over the truth of the God of creation, Who sent His only Son to save all for those who would believe. (Paraphrased John 3:16)

This is an excellent book for those that don’t understand their purpose in life, need hope (and those that perhaps don’t believe in God), and for those who seek answers.

Finding Heaven comes highly recommended as one of those reads that will make a true impact on those who are in deception, being either deceived by the world or their own rebellion, and speaks of the magnificent light in the truth of Jesus’ salvation and knowledge of the Word.

Book Title: Finding Heaven

Authored By: Dr. Edward Mrkvicka, Jr., D.D. (h.c.)

With Kelly Mrkvicka Bihlmaier

A CBM Christian Book Review

10.0 out of 10.0 stars

You may get your copy of Finding Heaven at Amazon