Book Worm

[Blessed]

What book are you currently reading?

I am reading Waking the Dead by John Elderidge. It is a book about "the fierce battle over your heart, and embrace all that God has for you. there is so much more. Do you want it?"

So far I can identify with the feelings in the book.

[Dr T]

I just started reading a book titled, "Folk of the Fringe."

[Outshined]

Saddam's Secrets, by General Georges Sada, second in command of Iraq's air force. It's a first-hand account of what really happened in Hussein's government and how they got rid of their WMD. Very good book so far.

[roman]

Saddam's Secrets, by General Georges Sada, second in command of Iraq's air force. It's a first-hand account of what really happened in Hussein's government and how they got rid of their WMD. Very good book so far.

could you be so kind and gives us a peek into what the book says about WMD. And just so you know I believe he had them and am pro war in Iraq

[Veghead]

I'm new here. Hello!! I am reading The Secret on Ararat by Tim LaHaye ( one of the authors of the Left Behind Series).

veggie51

[Dr T]

Welcome Veggie,

Is it about Noah's ark?

Dr. T

[Outshined]

could you be so kind and gives us a peek into what the book says about WMD. And just so you know I believe he had them and am pro war in Iraq

General Sada says they flew 56 commercial airliner loaded with chemical weapons out of Iraq to Syria in late 2002. They removed the seats from a 747 and a 727 and loaded them with the barrels, and marked the flights as "disaster relief" for Syria's earthquake. He says they took the equipment used to make the chemicals over the border by truck and that they were in negotiations to buy nuclear materials. They had teams whose only job was to distract UN inspectors to allow WMD to be moved around.

It's a very interesting book. I recommend it.

[roman]

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could you be so kind and gives us a peek into what the book says about WMD. And just so you know I believe he had them and am pro war in Iraq

General Sada says they flew 56 commercial airliner loaded with chemical weapons out of Iraq to Syria in late 2002. They removed the seats from a 747 and a 727 and loaded them with the barrels, and marked the flights as "disaster relief" for Syria's earthquake. He says they took the equipment used to make the chemicals over the border by truck and that they were in negotiations to buy nuclear materials. They had teams whose only job was to distract UN inspectors to allow WMD to be moved around.

It's a very interesting book. I recommend it.

Thanks----thats pretty much what I had heard and believed before

[inthearmsofsleep]

Right now i'm reading The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball. I love it.

[pushka]

I'm currently reading Secrets by Lesley Pearce.

I've just bought a further 2 books, The Rosary Girls, by Richard Montanari, an author whose books I've never read before and Lifeguard by James Patterson...whose other books I've loved, and Andrew Gross whose books I've never read before. They're both Murder Mysteries...detective stuf, which I love.

I'm also trying to get thru as many John Grisham novels as I can at the mo. and also Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

(I injured my legs 6 weeks ago so have been getting thru tons of reading lately!)

[Brother Dorsey]

Right now I am reading:

The Gateway We Call Death by Russel M. Nelson

The Divine Connection by Lloyd D. Newell

Joseph Smith the Prophet by Truman G. Madsen

and

The Book of Mormon (3rd Nephi)

The Bible (Old Testiment)

[CaptainTux]

Moving to Ubuntu by Marcel Gagne'

Practical Demon Keeping by Christopher Moore (satire fiction).

[Veghead]

Welcome Veggie,

Is it about Noah's ark?

Dr. T

Yes, Dr. T it is. Fiction of course but quite interesting nontheless.

veggie

I'm currently reading Secrets by Lesley Pearce.

I've just bought a further 2 books, The Rosary Girls, by Richard Montanari, an author whose books I've never read before and Lifeguard by James Patterson...whose other books I've loved, and Andrew Gross whose books I've never read before. They're both Murder Mysteries...detective stuf, which I love.

I'm also trying to get thru as many John Grisham novels as I can at the mo. and also Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

(I injured my legs 6 weeks ago so have been getting thru tons of reading lately!)

I used to love Stephen King but he's gotten a real potty mouth in the last few years so I quit reading his stuff. John Grisham on the other hand writes a great novel and doesn't use bad language. So it can be done Mr. King!

Veggie

[Winnie G]

Book one of The kingdom and the Crown by Gerald N Lund

I love his writing.

[insertwittynamehere]

I'm currently reading The Coming of the Lord of Gerald Lund, Old Testament (Exodus), BoM (1 Nephi), and The Work and the Glory: Pillar of Light.

[pushka]

You're right Veggie..there really isn't any need for the bad language in the books...Sometimes I do tire a little of the Stephen King stories, perhaps I've read too many already!!

I do love the Grisham stuff, for other reasons, obviously they are completely different kinds of work, I see Grisham as more 'intelligent' fiction than the other stuff I read.

Btw, Veggie, are you called that because you're vegetarian?

[prisonchaplain]

I recently attended a seminar in which church leaders were encouraged to use more media--especially pictures--in their teachings. Why? It was pointed out that we've gone from a pre-literate, to a literate, to a post-literate society. We can all read, but most of us don't--at least not by choice. Therefore, just as the medieval church resorted to icons, we may well need to draw literal as well as word-pictures. Thoughts?

[Princess3dward]

Don Quixote

[john doe]

I just finished Assassin by Ted Bell. I was somewhat disappointed, Tom Clancy is more to my liking, but he hasn't written much lately.

[Blessed]

I recently attended a seminar in which church leaders were encouraged to use more media--especially pictures--in their teachings. Why? It was pointed out that we've gone from a pre-literate, to a literate, to a post-literate society. We can all read, but most of us don't--at least not by choice. Therefore, just as the medieval church resorted to icons, we may well need to draw literal as well as word-pictures. Thoughts?

Laziness comes to mind. And the medieval church resorted to icons because only the elite of the time (rich and powerful) could and would attend school. The icons were for those who could not read.

[EricM]

I just finished Lord of the Flies for English. I've also been reading East of Eden for a while (sort of). I keep taking breaks from it, so I haven't been getting very far into it as of late.

[CaptainTux]

I recently attended a seminar in which church leaders were encouraged to use more media--especially pictures--in their teachings. Why? It was pointed out that we've gone from a pre-literate, to a literate, to a post-literate society. We can all read, but most of us don't--at least not by choice. Therefore, just as the medieval church resorted to icons, we may well need to draw literal as well as word-pictures. Thoughts?

I disagree with the assertion n that we are now a post literate society. I will have to research the sales figures and stats, but I see the competition between Borders, B&N, and Amazon. The stores get bigger and the books keep rolling. Oprahs book club and the View have women all over the world talking about books. Entertainment Weekly and People have increasingly larger literature sections and full page ads for new books as if it were a movie. Heck, millions gasped when it turned out some guy lied in his memoirs. It became page one scandal in some papers.

Reading is a part of our pop culture. I have felt that the Church sub culture is usually 4-7 years out of touch with what is going on. Just watch what these guys show that tour the country telling the evils of rock and roll and then look at the Billboard chart. Most of the acts they warn kids about have not been played by the hep cats for a while.

I would say that it is true that current events such as world events and politics are something people are becoming increasingly ignorant of. Now you have a choice. Dumb down the content to an ineffectual power point presentation to meet the felt need of the lazy or meet the real need and ask people to raise the bar and perhaps take more notes than fill in the cute blanks on three points.

Ignore what they say. When you were taught the basic principles of effective speech and homiletics you were taught solid principles of how people think and react. Incorporating technology is fine, but relying on it to replace the focus from the speaker and the words to pictures...not for me.

Case in point, my pastor encourages us to bring our Bibles and has ushers pass out Bibles to people that do not have one. THEN he has every word of every verse on the power point projection. I no longer bring my Bible to church now. I used to take detailed notes on his sermons...now I fill in the blanks. I am a clone and I have been encouraged to that. Now ask me what last Sunday's sermon was?

I can tell you about sermons I heard years ago before the dumbing down of the Evengelical culture. We have been encouraged and trained to check our brains at the door. Give the people the benefit of the doubt that they can do more than sit in a corner and drool. Tease them a bit to rise to a newer height and you will have an effectual people going to all four corners of the earth...or power point it and have a whole lotta nice...and boring.

[Maureen]

The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward, although very slowly.

M.

[Princess3dward]

I just finished Lord of the Flies for English. I've also been reading East of Eden for a while (sort of). I keep taking breaks from it, so I haven't been getting very far into it as of late.

I HATED that book SO MUCH!

I had to read it TWICE!

[Dr T]

I thought it was a great book.