Green Cuisine for complete health: A Review

This is a new cookbook featuring more than 100 Plant-Based Recipes. Margaret Owens is the creator of this beautiful new cookbook. She has collected and created these mouth-watering recipes.

Dr Hans Diehl founder of the CHIP and Lifestyle Medicine Institute as well as a clinical professor of preventive medicine at Loma Linda School of Medicine has this to say about this cookbook:

When it comes to successfully combating the epidemic of heart disease, diabetes, excess weight, and high blood pressure, nothing in effectiveness trumps a plant-based, whole-food centered diet. This cookbook embodies these principles. You will thrive and experience health, vitality, and joy without the looming threat of chronic disease and premature death.

And you will enjoy these mouthwatering recipes. You can do them.

Besides the mouthwatering recipes in this cookbook with full color pictures so can you see what you are producing. There are several highlights in the book that make this cookbook unique and an interesting read: How to use these recipes; Tips for cooking; Definitions and descriptions of many Healthy Ingredients.

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Sharna of Rocky Bay: A Review

This book, first published in 1957, peaked my interest when I heard about it as a small child growing up in  the smaller Rocky Bay of Washington state. My siblings and I were curious to read the story  because it was about another Rocky Bay which we did not know existed.

The book has been out of print for a number of years and I am so delighted the Pacific Press recently decided to reprint the book. After reading it again, it brought back fond memories from the time.

At the time this book was written, Rocky Bay Alaska was and still is a small fishing village bordering Nothern Canada whose inhabitant’s lives revolve around fishing, sealing and sled dogs. Some of the men would spend part of their time at the Iron Mines.

This book is the story of a young girl who,spent her childhood years in the cold Rocky Bay in a continuous search to learn more about the “Holy Omnipotent Father” and where He lives. She was only in 3^rd grade when the book is written but she decided to complete two grades in one year in case they wouldn’t have a teacher to teach them the next year.

In the book, Sharna is a good student and does accomplish fulfilling the requirements for both 3rd and 4^th grades. She is inspired to want to further her education.

Sharna finds answers to her questions from a new Christian missionary teacher who leads her to a loving and caring God.

I enjoyed reading the book and particularly liked a technique that the teacher used to plant seeds of wanting to further one’s education beyond fishing or working in the iron mines.

The teacher gave three of the older students a beginning of a story and each one had to write a story with that beginning. Here is how the story starts: “Harry stored away his cod traps. No more fishing for me,” he said. “So he…”

You will have to read the book to find out the different scenarios that the students created for Harry, given this beginning of the story. You will need to read the book to find out what Harry did.

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Sharna and Poggy: A Review

This is the sequel to the book Sharna of Rocky Bay. Sharna and Poggy are a sister and brother in a family that has 6 siblings in the little village of Rocky Bay in Alaska. It is a fishing village and generally what the men of the village do is fish or go off to the iron mines and mine iron.

Poggy is 8 years old and Sharna is a year or so older. In the previous book, Sharna of Rocky Bay, story is told of a missionary teacher who teaches at the elementary school for one year and along the way helps Sharna and Poggy to know more about God, who they refer to as “The Holy Omnipotent Father.”

Sharna and Poggy learned from the teacher that God is a loving God and that they could pray to Him about their needs and concerns.

In this sequel, Poggy finds a friend—a boy about his age from “outside” who has come to spend some time with his uncle and aunt. His name is Stephen, but he is called Spud.

Poggy is happy to have a friend about his age but Spud is not a Christian so Poggy decides he needs to let his light shine. Spud responds to the friendship of Poggy and does become a Christian.

The new school teacher is not as Christian as the school teacher the year before, but Sharna and other students are able to share Christian kindness and before the school year is over, they realize that he has changed a lot and is so much more pleasant than he had been at first.

This is a wonderful story that can encourage the reader to “let their light shine” and also to learn about how people have lived in remote areas of this world.

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Hope for Today's Family: A Review

Willie and Elaine Oliver state in the introduction to this new book:

There is hope for today’s families. Things can get better. Our children can grow up and become positive human beings. We can learn to overcome negative attitudes. As you embrace God’s reasons for creating the family, it is possible to have stronger and healthier family relationship.

Some of the topics covered in this 96-page book are:

The Family.

Marriage

Parenting

Communicating with Grace

How to prevent Marital Distress and Divorce

Finding Peace as a Single Person,

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A Trip into the Supernatural: A Review

Roger J. Morneau, author of this amazing autobiography was born on April 18. 1925 in New Brunswick, Canada. He was raised in a conservative Catholic home by very loving parents. However, there were a number of questions that he was unable to get satisfactory answers to and he came to hate God and turned away from Him

During World War II, he served in the Canadian Merchant Navy and drifted farther from religion.  When he finished his time of service, he became involved with Satan Worship. He was told that the spirits had big plans for him that would make him extremely successful and wealthy.

As he became acquainted with the priest of the Spirits Temple he became more and more involved. One day when the priest was speaking to a group of people and telling how Lucifer and the other spirits worked, the subject of Seventh-day Adventists came up. To quote, the question was “What about the Adventists. You can’t consider them deceived like you say the rest of the world is. Why do they resist the great deception?”

The priest answered:

You are correct. Adventists haven’t been taken in by it. First let me explain why I ignored them. There are so few of them when you consider the rest of the world’s population that I didn’t even think of mentioning them.

Second the reason that they haven’t fallen for the deception is that they are not ordinary people. Permit me to explain. What I am going to say next may upset some of you, but it’s true whether you like it or not.

The fact that Adventists celebrate the biblical Sabbath of Creation makes it impossible to deceive them. The Creator gives them special help and great spiritual insights. So in that sense they are not ordinary people.

Among other things Morneau learned, was fact that the spirits purposely try to bring about discord and war and fighting, including interfering with peace talks at the United Nations.  He was told that peace is not good for the success of Lucifer’s plans.

After a number of weeks, the Satanist priest told Roger and his friend Roland that it was time for them to formally become part of the Satanist group.  Roger said he needed a little time to decide if he would do this. In the providence of God, however, he met a gentleman at his work who was a Christian and studying to join the seventh-day Adventist church. The Jewish boss wanted to know why this non-Jew wanted Saturdays off, and asked Roger to find out. This led to bible studies (28 in one week)

 Roger accepted Jesus as his Savior and soon joined the Seventh-day Adventist church.

Now he was in trouble with the spirits- but he had accepted a more powerful Master, Jesus Christ.

I encourage you to read this book to learn a lot more amazing details of what happened to Roger.

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A Pause for Peace: A Review

This book by Clifford Goldstein has just been republished this year in a larger edition with many beautiful full color illustrations

The subject is the Sabbath and Goldstein presents the biblical evidence for keeping the Sabbath as well as giving many of the health benefits of having a day of rest.

Goldstein masterfully shows that the Sabbath was the capstone to the creation week when God created this world and is a sign of His creation of us and the redemption which Jesus provided for us on Calvary.

The Sabbath is intended as a delight, a joy, and a blessing, not a burden.

Far from violating the Sabbath, Christ by His words and deeds, restored its true purpose.

If the Holy Sabbath day had been changed, surely the Gospel writers should have written something about it.

We are accepted not because of what we have done but because of what
Jesus has done for us.

In the new covenant, God will write His law on our hearts and minds.

Jesus himself adamantly taught and kept the seventh-day Sabbath

The Sabbath symbolizes not only the created world, but the soul re-created in Christ.

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Out of Babylon: A Review

S. Joseph Kidder, the author of this autobiography was born in Nineveh, located in northern Iraq. The town itself is now called Mosul but still the modern city and ruins of the ancient city are called the “District of Nineveh.” The region is called “the state of Nineveh”

Up until a few years ago, the grave of Jonah was in the heart of Mosul. Jonah’s grave was, however, destroyed in 2014 by ISIS.

Kidder found Jesus on the streets of Bagdad, Iraq. His cousin Basher was visiting one Friday afternoon and they decided to go for a walk.

By accident or better yet, by divine providence, our walk brought us to the Adventist church. There was a small sign (about 6 inches by five inches) advertising a movie about the life of Jesus Christ and inviting people to go in and watch it.

Kidder relates that that movie is what introduced him to Jesus. He began to study the bible. He wanted one of his own so he saved up the $100.00 needed to order a bible. After ordering the bible, it still took 8 more months to receive it.

Kidder was happy to have his own bible and began to read it.

It can be hard to be a Christian in Iraq. One day nearly 100 friends and family met him at his home and spit on him and beat him up and left him for dead on the street.  But God was with him.

Later two of the young men who had beat him up talked to him and said either you are really crazy or if not we want to have what you have. Kidder was able to lead both of them to Christ.

Eventually Kidder was able to come to the United States to go to school and he became a minister. He has since pastored and taught at Andrews University for many years.

Kidder realized that, had he not become a Christian and left Iraq, he very likely would have been killed in one of the numerous wars that Iraq has waged.

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