I know that many of you have read this wonderful book already, it is one of
my all time favorite marriage books so I simply had to list it here! This is my
first recommendation to any couple! It is so good that I think it should be mandatory reading for all husbands and wives! Why do I love it so much? Simply because Gary Chapman has explained a truth about how God has designed each of us differently in an easy to read and easy to apply format
The 5 Love Languages
presents 5 different ways that we speak and hear love. Words of affirmation, Acts of service, Gifts, Physical touch, and Quality time. Since there are 5, most couples will find that their primary language is different then the language their spouse is speaking. This book helps couples to identify their spouses language, and learn how to speak it!
I highly recommend that husbands should read the "
men's edition
". Why? Because Gary Chapman is nice to us husbands, after each language is explained he has written a whole section titled "if your wife is this then you should do ___". It can't get any easier then that!
If you have not read this great book with your spouse in the past 5 years I would encourage you to pick it up again! Kate and I recently did and we both discovered that our primary languages had changed !
Check it out, maybe your spouses have changed too!
The Rising Tide, The Steel Wave
, No Less Than Victory
, by Jeff Shaara
As a fan of US military history I have enjoyed many of Jeff Shaara’s books. I believe his three part series on World War II is simply fantastic. For those of us who were raised by the WWII generation or in my case the children of the WWII generation we often experienced a vacuum of information about this very important part of history. Our parents and grandparents often would not talk about their experiences or only gave romanticized accounts and public school history class only offered the slightest overview of the entire WWII period! In this vacuum we know about the names, the battles, the themes, but we often do not know the decisions or the personalities behind them. Jeff Shaara makes all of it come alive! His retelling of the events from the first days to after the final shot was fired closely follows the historical account but gives readers an inside view to the conversations, thoughts and decisions the solders, from the Generals to the privates, were having. In addition I appreciated that these books do not over simplify the German’s role in the war. They do not deny the evil that occurred but also seek to look behind this vale to show the personalities of the German people. For anyone who enjoys history or wants to know more about WWII history I highly recommend this series.
