Review of "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan

God is Love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. This is the theme from Francis Chan's most famous book, Crazy Love. I really like this book because Francis Chan points out the flaws in the modern day church and how to fully live out God's true purpose in your life. He digs deep into Christian theology and helps us figure out the amazing love God has for us; to help understand that God, Himself, is the embodiment of love. Francis writes on how the storms that are allowed to swell in our lives are there so that we will turn our eyes to our Heavenly Father, but we are so focused on the problem that we don't notice. God is relentless and He will never give up on you, and all of this is backed up by research and Scripture. I recommend this book to everyone.

Randy Smith

A Review of Ted Dekker's "Thr3e"

This book was incredibly captivating; it had many twists and turns in it and I never saw the ending coming. There’s a young man, named Kevin, who is becoming a preacher at a Christian school; on his way home one evening, he gets a strange phone call where a man tells him a riddle and then informs him that if he cannot solve the riddle in 3 minutes his car will be blown up. The man also states that Kevin needs to confess his sins to the world by solving the riddle. Confused, but not taking any chances, he manages to cause mass chaos trying to get his car off of the road before it explodes. The caller calls again and tells him that this was only the first of a series of test. Before he knows it, he’s wrapped in a life surrounded by agents of different companies around the country who all want to catch a well known serial killer known as the “Riddle Killer”; one of the agents is a female CBI agent who is also Kevin’s best friend, Sam, and one other is an agent from the FBI who is the sister of the Riddle Killer’s last victim, Jennifer. They must dive into Kevin’s past where they discover his family’s abuse, his friendship with Sam, the young Riddle Killer and most all his sin. Together the three of them get wrapped in a world full of confusion, bombs, riddles and the killer’s obsession with the number three all in order to obtain one goal: to keep Kevin alive. The book was constantly keeping me guessing and changing my mind about who the riddle killer was. I would definitely recommend this book.

Lisa Smith
PALASA President