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*The Young Man’s Guide to Awesomeness by Barrett Johnson
The Young Man’s Guide to Awesomeness is a well-organized, humorous, straight-talking guide for young men as they mature into godly adults. *The Young Man’s Guide to Awesomeness: How to Guard Your Heart, Get the Girl, and Save the World by Barrett Johnson. INFO For Families, 2017. 158 pages. Reading Level: Teen, ages 12 and up Recommended For: Upper middle grades and up (ages 10+) Growing up is never easy. There are physical changes, emotional changes, social changes, intellectual changes…. And our American culture is increasingly confusing the issues: screens make porn a mere click away. Magazines in the checkout lines at the grocery store are lurid enough to make ME seek out the “Family Friendly” aisle where it’s only candy, word searches, and impulse buys like tiny flashlights. Increasingly, the messages against “toxic masculinity” and the encouragement to boys to be delicate, effeminate, and wear skinny jeans are only confusing the issue further. What’s a guy to do?…
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At the Well by Kristen Tiber
At the Well is a short book urging singles (teens and up) to wait on the Lord for marriage and for his timing. At the Well: Discovering God’s Plan for Finding True Love by Kristen Tiber. Kristen Summers LLC, 2018. 146 pages. Reading Level: Teen, ages 12 and up Recommended For: Teens, ages 15 and up The story of Eliezer meeting Rebecca at the well is a familiar one: Abraham had sent Eliezer to find a bride for his son Isaac. Eliezer prayed that a girl would offer him water at a well and water his camels, too. Kristen Tiber uses this story to unpack principles for those waiting–and hoping–to get married in this short, easy-to-read book. She examines heart preparation and walking with the Lord while waiting on his timing. She zeroes in…
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The Single Ladies Of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell
Growing Old Disgracefully The Single Ladies Of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell is the most delightful novel about love and friendship and life. Life is for living whether you are eight or eighty. “The person inside doesn’t change just because a few years have passed.” The novel explores how frustrating it can be when […]
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Meet the Team: Janie
We’re taking some time and giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the Redeemed Reader team. Today, Hayley (RR’s executive assistant) interviews our Editorial Advisor and Senior Staff writer, Janie B. Cheaney. What is your first reading memory? Are there some books you remember a parent reading aloud to you?I know my parents read to me —my mother, certainly— but the only thing I remember her reading specifically is the Bible. I started first grade in 1956 with Dick & Jane readers but don’t remember being especially excited about it because, well, Dick & Jane were NOT exciting. (Dr. Seuss was still just a few years in the future, hard as…
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True Riches in God’s Kingdom
True Riches in God’s Kingdom Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Have you ever felt discouraged? Do you feel down? Or do you feel tired? Do you feel like nothing falls into place and that everything you do just simply fails? God is constantly listening. Your every woe will be answered. Just reach out to Him and you will surely find the answers to your deepest questions. This is how prayers work. We won’t realize it, but God is working in ways unimaginable. All He requires is that…
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Traversing Unknown Road with the Lord
Traversing Unknown Road with the Lord Lk 5,17-26: One day Jesus was teaching and many Pharisees and teachers of the Law had come from every part of Galilee and Judea and even from Jerusalem. They were sitting there while the power of the Lord was at work to heal the sick. Then some men brought a paralyzed man who lay on his mat. They tried to enter the house to place him before Jesus, but they couldn’t find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and, removing the tiles, they lowered him on his mat into the middle of the group, in front of Jesus.…
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God’s Ultimate Blessing – Love, Bread, and Fish.
God’s Ultimate Blessing: Love, Bread, and Fish. Mk 6, 34-44: As Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He had compassion on them for they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began a long teaching session with them. It was now getting late, so His disciples came to Him and said, “This is a lonely place, and it is now late. You should send the people away and let them go to the farms and villages around here to buy themselves something to eat”. Jesus replied, “You yourselves give them something to eat”. They answered, “If we are to give them food, we must go and buy…
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Mercy’s Promise by Lynn Landes
The Father’s Heart Mercy’s Promise by Lynn Landes is a fabulous Christian historical romance set after the American Civil War. War is a terrible thing – some wounds are visible, some are not. War changes personalities – things that have been seen cannot be ‘unseen.’ Men returned full of anger and pain. In those days, […]
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The Space Between Us by T.K. Chapin
Love, Love, Love The Space Between Us by T.K. Chapin is a marvelously powerful contemporary Christian novel about love. This love is not a love that diminishes this is the love of God for His children and the love of His children for each other. It is a love based on 1 Corinthians 13. A […]
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*What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
Moving and beautiful, this post-Holocaust novel offers hope after horror. *What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper. Knopf, 2018, 249 pages. Reading Level: Teen, ages 12-15 Recommended for: ages 15-up On the day the British liberated the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, Gerta Rausch was too weak to walk; a soldier pulled her from the arms of her dead bunkmate and carried her out into the sunshine. There she very slowly realized she was still alive, among the piles of the dead. That thought is enough for days, weeks, even months. But slowly, as flaccid muscles firm up on her bones and strength returns, she realizes the script of her life…
