The Beautiful Fight Reviewed by Ben Milczewsky

This is an interesting and articulate expression of the way Christians should seek God every day. Gary Thomas lays out how Christians should worship with every action; seeing, hearing, speaking, touching: everything should be done as an act of worship towards God. The book then took a turn I was not expecting and Thomas began to expound on the process of Sanctification. His ideas of practical ways to work on your heart and soul were quite moving. While this book was a bit wordy and included a few superfluous examples, I would recommend it for a new Christian but not for a non-believer who is interested in learning about Christianity.

Five Love Languages Reviewed by Chandler Fulton

Few will argue that “love” is not an important part of most relationships; that being said, it also follows we should learn how to “love”. Chapman asserts that love is communicated through different “languages”, and that we each have our “native tongue”. However, people with whom we find ourselves in relationship with often speak a different language, and so communicating love becomes difficult. Through this book, Chapman tries to break down the barriers and build bridges between different love languages. All in all, a very helpful book; Chapman gives very clear and practical ideas to learning a new love language. While written for married couples, people in non-marital and even non-dating relationships can benefit greatly from the ideas in this book.

Small Footprint, Big Handprint Reviewed by Cristina Malkhassain

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to try and cut the excess activities out of their life and wants to learn to live more simply. He gives practical advice on how to determine what is and isn’t important, and what needs to be cut out in order to free up more of your time. This is a good read for anyone who wants to live a more purposeful life for the kingdom.

Chasing Daylight Reviewed by Jennifer Paolozzi

Chasing Daylight by Erwin McManus is a call to action in our Christian walk. He challenges the reader to not just sit back but turn your life into an adventure with God. McManus weaves personal stories and the Biblical account of Jonathan and his shield bearer attacking the Philistine camp as a model to seizing the day. You will be challenged to step out in your faith. McManus writes, “This relationship between faith and uncertainty is inescapable. What required faith for your yesterday may become commonplace for you tomorrow. Once something is a certainty, it no longer requires faith. Do not be surprised that what God asked of you yesterday is insufficient for your journey of faith today.”

Too Small to Ignore Reviewed by Laura Hartman

In order to really help what's going on in the world with children and poverty and abuse, you really need to understand it, and Stafford really helps you to understand it by showing it to you. It's pretty emotional. Stafford creates the case that it's time for Christians world-wide to begin investing into the lives of children, both with time & resources. He argues that children have four sets of freedoms that we must fight for and invest in seeing come to fruition. Children deserve a freedom from drivenness, materialism, competition, and fear. And in order to free them from these four things, its imperative that we do what we can as adults to give them that gift so they can live full lives.

Handbook of Faith, Hope and Love Reviewed by Taylor Radig

The Handbook of Faith, Hope, and Love, is an in depth look at the teaching of Saint Augustine. This book is beautifully written, and addresses topics in a way that I have yet to see. My favorite part of this book, was Saint Augustine's teachings on the problem of evil. This book also provides a good, thorough, chapter on the role of the Holy Spirit, as well as many other chapters that give great insight to different aspects of the Christian belief. For a few pages, this book holds a great deal of information, that can be read endlessly by anyone.

My Beautiful Idol Reviewed by Tim DePaola

There are many things to learn from this book about failure and redemption, giving yourself up as an "idol" and living for the Lord, and as a young guy, I got a lot out of it. He also has a very sarcastic and witty writing style which I enjoyed. It starts with him leaving his very lucrative job, the girl of his dreams, and everything he knows to pursue God in a new way and in a new place. Without ruining the book for you, he finds many obstacles in his path and ultimately must choose if what he did was right. Some of the sections get a little raw, but I would recommend it for people that are having trouble with putting God above themselves and even others.