Rick Warren founded the 26,000 strong Saddleback Church in Orange County, California. He wrote the best-seller The Purpose Driven Life and is affectionately known as “America’s Pastor”. (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 14, 2023
Rightly so, my mum took me to a psychologist. It was there, with my aunt, step-dad and mum in the room that the truth came out - my Dad had committed suicide. (more…)
Bob JonesJuly 19, 2022
One day, she was at the pinnacle of her career, a co-host of a national Christian TV program and the next day she was checking into a psychiatric hospital, under a suicide watch. (more…)
Bob JonesFebruary 8, 2022
I thought back to when I thought I was the only one, the only Christian who struggled. The scars of all these long years of pain are good reminders to think again. (more…)
Bob JonesFebruary 7, 2022
Today I went to a tattoo artist, and for $60 I let a man with a giant Jesus-tattoo on his head ink a semi-colon onto my wrist where it will stay until the day I die. Heather Parrie (more…)
Bob JonesJuly 4, 2020
David and Goliath are seen as the classic underdog story. The message take away from the account is that if we try hard enough we can overcome. Anything. Of any size. But that’s the wrong message. (more…)
Bob JonesNovember 1, 2019
Brene Brown is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers including ones I've read: Daring Greatly, and Rising Strong. Their essential themes are the same. The path to a meaningful, loving life comes through a willingness to be vulnerable and a rejection of the socially produced shame that convinces us we, or our vulnerabilities, are not worthy of love. (more…)
Bob JonesAugust 2, 2019
Beautiful and maddening, hopeful and condemning, simple, yet like a knot that takes a lifetime to untangle. A heartbreaking, rewarding story that still haunts me. That’s how author Jamie Ford describes Up From the Blue, the debut novel by Susan Henderson. Novels aren't usually a genre I do book reviews for but this one is an exception. And I think you would agree once you meet Tillie. (more…)
Bob JonesJune 22, 2019
If your world is a mess it doesn’t mean that you have to be one. You’re Going To Be OK offers real hope for women from women fighting cancer, mental illness, sexual abuse or loss. You don’t need to be alone in your fight. Women who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful. You are going to be OK. (more…)
Bob JonesJune 7, 2019