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My Favorite Books               see also:  China library

The "Joshua" series by Joseph F. Girzone. Over  3,000,000 copies sold. Available ordinary bookstores. Really inspiring books. Ideal for everyone! 

***** Joshua (the first one, best to read it first)
***** Joshua and the Children
***** The Shepherd
***** Joshua in the Holy Land
****    Joshua and the City
***     A Portrait of Jesus
***** Joshua: The Homecoming
***     Jesus, His Life and Teachings
***     The Parables of Joshua
***** Who Will Teach Me: A Handbook for Parents
**        Who is God?
*          Joey
****    The Messenger
**         Trinity
***      Joshua in a Troubled World

William Dalrymple:
***** From the Holy Mountain
- a UK best-seller
- one of the best travel books you'll ever read
- will have you laughing and crying


Dr Kenneth McAll:
***** Healing the Family Tree
***** A Guide to Healing the Family Tree

Excellent. Shows how present day illnesses can be cured by prayers for past events. I wish I had read these books 30 years ago......I could have been much more use to many more people


Michael Moore:
**** Stupid White Men (International Best Seller)
*** Dude, Where's the Country?

Merlin Carothers:

***** Prison to Praise
***** Power in Praise
***** Bringing Heaven into Hell

(Over 17,000,000 praise books sold)


***** Jeffrey Sachs: "The End of Poverty"  - hard to put down once you start reading
***** George Monbiot: "The Age of Consent"   - excellent treatment of Globalization

Francis MacNutt - for me he is the best of all authors who write about healing.
Here is a full list of his excellent books, all of which I give *******

Louis Fischer

******* Gandhi - Sir Richard Attenborough's movie based on this book. Gandhi a rival to St Francis as the most Christ-like man ever to walk this earth. What blatant bias for TIME magazine not to have chosen Gandhi as Man of the Century. "This book changed my life" (Attenborough) 

Paul Rusesabagina:  ***** An Ordinary Man (how he saved 1,200 people at his hotel during the genocide in Rwanda)


Agnes Sanford
  (Francis MacNutt's teacher)....she was born in China in 1897....died in USA in 1982):
*****Sealed Orders (her autobiography)
***** The Healing Light
***** The Healing Gifts of the Holy Spirit
            ***** Teilhard de Chardin - many books, especially "The Future of Mankind"   Stuart Jackman:  The Davidson Affair   *****

For pastors/priests:

Eugene H. Peterson:
*****
Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work  (1995 Interview with EP) (& U2)....
*****  Reversed Thunder (The Book of Revelation)
***** Run With The Horses (Jeremiah) 
***     The Contemplative Pastor
*****  Under the Unpredictable Plant

*****   Pope John Paul 2: SUNDAY - THE LORD'S DAY  (in Quiz form - ideal for pastoral use)

For Young People (13-15)
*** Preparing For Life (..the meaning of life..)
*** Friend For Life (..who Jesus is..)