Ask It Book Review

       Ask It is all about one question. A question that will change the way you go about making decisions. This question will help you answer the other questions about choices we all run up against.

 Should I take this job?

Buy this house?

Marry this person?  

       

       The question presented in Ask It by no means makes the path of your future crystal clear. But you will have more confidence with hard questions and be able to make the right decisions easier.

       I read this book as if it were a novel. Stanley writes as if he is talking to you face to face. This makes the book a very easy read. But it is by no means has an easy subject. Using the question, Stanley addresses issues that hit close to your comfort zone. Issues that, if most of us had our way, we would leave in the back of our closet. But they are things that need to be talked about.

       Stanley also talks about your future, giving insights on how to proceed in different situations. He by no means preaches that his way is the “holy” way or that if you don’t do things his way you will fail. But he is a pastor with lots of experience in decision making. This makes his opinion worth hearing.  

       Now this may seem long and complicated and a book of “do's and don’ts”, but it is not. Stanley uses the question in different circumstances to help you out if you ever have to deal with the same things.

       This book is by no means one that you read and then forget about. It has a very challenging message to it. And, if you let it, it will change your life.

       This is a book I would recommend to anyone who is ever going to make life changing decisions (which is everyone =D)  

       Ask It is divided into six parts with a study guide in the back which makes it easy to use in a group study. There is also an Ask It DVD series that you could use for the same purpose.

       If you are going to read this book I would suggest you read Ephesians, chapters 4-5, the place where Stanley found this revolutionizing question.

If you would like to learn more about Andy Stanley here is a short Author Bio. 

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Thanks for reading! 

Darth Vader and Captain America Adventure Episode 4

 Cap uses his shield to knock down the Strainer of Despair and get Vader out. 

The Hydra agents try t-o stop them, but Vader stops them with the force while Cap gets out. 

Vader and Cap contact S.H.I.E.L.D, and they send some agents to take care of the Hydra base. 

Afterwords Vader is able to relax on the beach, 

Cap builds a great sand sculpture, 

and they both are able to get a tan. 

Then they go to Pirate's Island and explore. 

Vader: "I think I want this on my tomb stone...=D"

Cap: "Look, Vader! It's a Capsoup!" =D

Then they go back home and take a vacation for their vacation.

Vader: "Cap, next time we go on a trip together...I am planing it!"

The End

=D

I hope y'all enjoyed the story! 

Thanks for reading!

Darth Vader and Captain America Adventure Episode 3

The next day Vader decides to get in the car and search for the Cap. 

The Hydra agents Cap was with arrive at a Hydra base.

Cap discovers one of Hydra’s training methods. 

Vader is disturbed by human’s method of building their structures.  

Cap follows some agents who had been sent on a mission. The agents go to a condo and wait for someone. Cap, who is very hungry, starts looking for something to eat. He finds some chocolates and eat them. 

He finds some grapes and eats them.

Then he finds something to drink. 

Then Vader arrives at his condo and finds the Hydra agents waiting for him. He handles himself very well by just sitting down and saying, "I find your lack of chocolate disturbing."

The agents instantly grab Vader and put him in the Strainer of Despair.

Cap, with his gigantic appetite, begins to eat some bread. 

Then he sees Vader in the Strainer of Despair.  He makes his way to him.

Will Cap be able to save Vader?! More episodes to come =D 

 

Darth Vader and Captain America Adventure Episode 2

Vader and Cap started out on their trip early the next morning. Vader decided that he since he was a professional pilot that he has better do the driving.

Cap got ready to do the navigating. 

At the first rest stop Vader got some Doritos. 

Vader and Cap ate the bag for lunch.

But then the trouble started. Vader was unaware that Cap had gotten out to throw the empty chip bag away, so he started the car and left. 

Cap saw that Vader had left and got out his phone to call him but Vader (very busy driving) didn't answer.

Cap had to hitch a ride with some people heading in the same direction. 

But while Cap was finding out that the people he was with were actually agents of Hydra and trying to find a way to get away from them, Vader has realized that Cap was no longer with him (and since Cap wasn't answering his phone) tried to think of an alternate plan. 

Vader decided to eat dinner and go to the condo where he and Cap had planed on going.

Meanwhile Cap was trying to get some food out of the Hydra agent's cooler undetected. 

How will Cap and Vader met back up? More episodes to come. =D 

Darth Vader and Captain America Adventure Episode 1

Darth Vader and Captain America have recently met. They have become friends and Captain America finds out that Vader has never been to the beach! He immediately begins to plan a road trip.

Vader gets very excited about going and begins to pack right away. 

Cap does an inventory to make sure Vader hasn’t forgotten anything. 

Vader tells Cap that he doesn’t think he can sleep he is so pumped up!!!! (Yes, Vader has seen the Lego Movie) =D

He and Cap plan on leaving in the morning.

More Episodes to come…..

Thief of Glory by Sigmund Brouwer

This is a book review written by my Mom =D 

Because of my interest in WWII history, was glad to find a new book with an unusual story to tell. Thief of Glory by Sigmund Brouwer was written by a man whose father spent time as a child in a slave labor camp in Indonesia during WWII. The novel is not a biography, but the truths of camp life are portrayed from account of people who were also prisoners of the Japanese.

There is so much evil in the story, sometimes it is hard to bear. The story of two mothers driven to drastic actions in order to protect their children is heartrending. Both mothers make sinful choices, yet it is heard to condemn them. They took the actions as they felt were the only hope in a world gone mad.

The narrator of the story is a young boy, but ends the book as a young man looking back with adult eyes of that time. The novel explores many relationships, parent and child, brothers, men and women, friendships and enemies. These relationships are complicated because of the war. There is great bravery, true friendships and long lasting love. But there are scars from deep wounds also.

The book closes by saying that against any horror, love and hope are what truly matter. Yet I closed the paged with a sense of despair. I did not feel the love and hope that come from Jesus Christ. 

If you are interested in this book you can read the 1st chapter HERE

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.