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The Divine Embrace 4 reviews
Tyndale House Publishers, 2004
Ken Gire Does It Again
I have just completed reading The Divine Embrace for the second time. As with Ken's other works, The Divine Embrace is filled with nuggets of truth which go right to the heart. Ken uses the metaphor of dance in drawing us to live a connected life with Jesus Christ. Each chapter is filled with creativity, challenge, and suggestions for being more like Mary in a Martha world. The conclusion ...
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Miracle of Life4 reviews
Ken Gire, Mary C. Wells, ...
Zondervan, 1993
A loving, thoughtprovoking way to wait for your baby's birth
I throughly am appreciating this book as I wait for my child to be born. The photos are beautiful and help me visualize my child growing daily. Each week's fetal development is wonderfully described through combining the actual anatomical facts with an acknowledgment of God's hand in this amazing process. The prayer each week touches my heart. This book helps me slow down for just a ...
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Treasure in an Oatmeal Box9 reviews
Ken Gire
Navpress Publishing Group, 1990
Treasure in an Oatmeal Box
Treasure in an Oatmeal Box is about a ten-year-old boy named Kevin Hallas and his twin sister named Kim. Kevin is mentally handicapped, but surprisingly seems to have a better understanding of love and the meaning of life than most people ever acquire. Kevin doesn't seem to mind that the other kids don't play with him. He seems fine with the fact that his only friends are a black lab named ...
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Adventures in the Big Thicket5 reviews
Ken Gire
Focus on the Family Pub, 1990
Wonderful read-aloud book
This is a wonderful book for reading aloud. Each character has its own "voice." Our children were fascinated by the dialectic speech of the characters. As previously commented, they will insist that you "do the voices." My wife read the book in class to her 4th graders and they loved it as well. Each story shows how the "easy way" often leads to trouble. This is a book of fables. It is supposed ...
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Between Heaven and Earth: Prayers and Reflections That Celebrate an Intimate God4 reviews
Ken Gire
HarperOne, 1997
Exhaustive prayer compilation well worth the money
Gire searches extensively to bring the reader the best tidbits of insight from the brightest Christian authors throughout the centuries. He has done the work that many of us wish we could do, if we only had the time. . .
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The Reflective Life: Becoming More Spiritually Sensitive to the Everyday Moments of Life (Reflective Living ...7 reviews
Ken Gire
Chariot Victor Publishing, 1998
The Refelective Life by Ken Gire
The Reflective Life; Becoming More Spiritually Sensitive to the Everyday Moments of Life is an excellent choice if you want to improve you life as a Christian. It really shows you how much in life we really do take for granted. Ken Gire is trying to teach himself and his readers how to become better Christian's by stregthening his relationship, and helping his reader's strenghten their ...
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Moments with the Savior - A Devotional Life of Christ13 reviews
Ken Gire, 1998
Moments with the Savior
This is one of the best Christian devotional books I have ever read. It is unique in its presentation of events in the life of Christ and the author's spiritual insights certainly draw one closer to God. I gave a copy to my pastor and he recommended it to fellow pastors, as well as friends and family.
Gert McIntosh
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Intimate Moments with the Savior3 reviews
Ken Gire
Zondervan, 1989
This is a wonderful book!
I absolutely love this devotion book. It brought new closeness to the Lord in my devotion times. The author has a selected scripture reading (in an easy to understand version). He then expands on the scripture in the "meditation" portion, making you feel as if you were there. He explores the thoughts and feelings of the people Jesus met and influenced, and the awe that they must have felt ...
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The Christmas Duck3 reviews
Ken Gire
Mott Media (MI), 1983
A beautiful story for both children and adults
This is one of the best books you could possibly share with your kids. My fifth grade teacher also read this to us, and she cried, and we all cried, too. I've never forgotten it. I borrowed it from her when I was in high school, and then forgot about it and it lay in a dusty box for several years. When I found it again, I wanted to keep it, but knew that she should share it with her other ...
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Windows of the Soul21 reviews
Ken Gire
Zondervan, 1996
Excellent
In 1998 I reveiwed this book by writing the following: Ken Gire is one of the most expressive writers of our day. His words paint a picture of our soul. Words that are simple, yet profound. Gire shows us how we can experience God through different avenues that intersect our daily lives. Don't be surprised by the tears that come to your eyes, they are tears from God showing you an area of your ...
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Seeing What Is Sacred: Becoming More Spiritually Sensitive to the Everyday Moments of Life2 reviews
Thomas Nelson, 2006
Viewing Life Through God's Filter
From the time we're children, we learn that the playing field is not equal. Some excel in sports, math, or reading. Others display a natural creativity, or a knack for attracting friends like moths to a porch light.
But think back far enough, and I'll bet you can remember someone like Nancy, who could barely lift her head to look you in the eye. Overshadowed. Alone. Desperately in need of a ...
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Incredible Moments with the Savior1 review
Ken Gire
Zondervan Publishing Company, 1990
He's Incredible
This is another of Gire's books that is inspiring and challenging! It encourages you to get out of your rut of drudgery and seek the God of our faith. Gire challenges us to open our eyes and take time to see God nearer and clearer and spend quality time with Him. I am a retreat speaker and found the information to be helpful with planning retreats and helping others to find their walk ...
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The Weathering Grace of God: The Beauty God Brings from Life's Upheavals1 review
Ken Gire
Vine Books, 2001
One of those books that hits you where you live...
Very accessible, descriptive writing. His use of metaphor is engaging - is there anyone who can NOT relate to navigating the storms of life? And the hope that weathering the storms will produce new growth. The edition I read was short, plenty of white space on the page - uncluttered pages left room for me to add my thoughts, I liked that. I really enjoyed his writing style, and I'm eager to ...
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Reflections on Your Life Journal: Discerning God's Voice in the Everyday Moments of Life (Reflective Living ...1 review
Ken Gire
Chariot Victor Publishing, 1998
Personal Growth through Spiritual Journaling
Author Ken Gire cuts right to the heart of teaching us Spiritual Journaling in the midst of our overly busy schedules. He understands how life often presses in around us until time passes in a blur. Taken together with Ken's encouragement to live more reflectively (in companion books "The Reflective Life" and "Reflections on the Word: A Devotional") this book has turned around the way I study ...
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When You Can't Come Back2 reviews
Dave Dravecky, Jan Dravecky, ...
Harper Audio, 1992
I am so glad my english teacher chose this book to read!
This is a great book. I am a sophmore in high school and I am so glad the english department chose to put this on the summer reading list. It shows that the all-amercian family isn't perfect and how they coped with all of the hurdles that were put in front of them. They should be commanded on their ability to cope with any problem that arises. Their kids should be recognized also because ...
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The Work of His Hands : The Agony and Ecstasy of Being Conformed to the Image of Christ1 review
Ken Gire
Vine Books, 2002
sculpture can teach so much
most of us know the statue of the PIETA, but did we ever really look deep into the meaning and beauty of this famous work of art. For example when the author studies the eyes of Mary he shows us things that we have never seen before.He looks at her hands and sees insights into life and suffering in her hands.......He even looks at the savage attack made on this beautiful sculpture and shows us ...
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Intense Moments with the Savior - Learning to Feel1 review
Ken Gire
Zondervan Publishing Company, 1994
the best account of the life of christ i have ever read
i found gire's writing style to be both prolific and beautiful. i would re-read sentences and paragraphs many times over in order to fully digest and absorb the profound meanings and to experience the moments he was describing as intensely as was intended. i have never been quite so affected by a devotional, it is a gift from above!
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Life as We Would Want It . . . Life as We Are Given It: The Beauty God Brings from Life's Upheavals3 reviews
Ken Gire
Thomas Nelson, 2007
A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE
Reccomended by a colleague I found it to be one of the most inspiring books I've read in a long time. "Life As We Would Want It..." addresses the desire of most to have smooth sailing through life: it doesn't happen that way. The author provides sound and reasonable counsel to change your approach to life in order to handle all that it throws at you. I am reccomending this book to everyone I ...
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Reflections on the Word: Devotional : Meditating on God's Word in the Everyday Moments of Life (Reflective ...1 review
Chariot Victor Publishing, 1998
An Unexpected surprise
I found this little book tucked away in the Religious section of my local favorite bookstore, drawn only at first by the beautiful cover. I soon realized, however, that the cover was only a facade for the even more lovely contents that it harbored. While Christian devotionals can be more prevalent that voyeristic TV shows these days, this book offers something beyond the typical "make me ...
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Windows of the Soul1 review
Ken Gire
Zondervan, 1997
It makes you think, and reflect, and read it again.
Ken Gire uses words as a master mechanic uses tools. But the words he uses causes you to reflect on yourself, then on God. Just when your begin feeling comfortable with God and your relationship (or lack of ) with Him, then "Windows of the Soul" opens up the box you've put Him in. I keep re-reading it and the nuggets of truth from other great thinkers and philosophers, past and present.
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