I bought this book almost 10 years ago when I heard John speak at a conference (he even signed it!). But I just recently picked it up again and...wow...how sobering and refreshing. John, a master of story and induction, will force and inspire you to confront the grey areas of the faith, dark areas of the heart, and the sometimes scary vastness of our all-pervasive God. It's a creative, insightful & witty book full of short vignettes that will, build a solid Christian worldview in you if you're not careful! You'll thank John for writing it...

This book really caught my attention, while scanning the library shelves in search for info on the "Shroud of Turin" {Jesus's burial cloth} I guess it was the Title of the book that caught my eye. The chapter I read and copied for friends, was the "Onward Christian Soldiers" chapter. It states that Christians or churches should not resort to hate tatics or to criticise each other or denominations. Christ showed us his love, and we should strive to be like him.

Good Book - Read It. Thanks!

A hard look at the traditional, and often not-Biblically based, cultural practices of the church. However, this book is much more than a nit-pickers fest as Fischer leads the reader into seeking a deeper relationship with Christ by weeding through unbiblical traditions. Also check out "Real Christians Don't Dance"

A Moment In Time is a quick read, but falls short of giving the audience a feeling of "being there".

The main character, Jackie Clarke, is a hairdresser who finds herself abandoned in the woods by her boyfriend...her no-good boyfriend. Since he stole her car, she starts the trek home only to find herself caught in a freak snowstorm. Seeking shelter inside a ghost town saloon, Jackie is saved from a certain death when she is hurled back to the Old West, 1891.

Caught up in a case of mistaken identity, Jackie "Lolita" Clarke is bounced around from one saloon to another trying to find her way back to her own time. Kidnapped by a handsome Mel Gibson look-alike who must have been on the Old West equivalent of Viagra, and taken to his homestead, Jackie finds herself falling in love with Cole Morrison and his nine year old motherless son Todd.

In my opinion, the author seemed short on details concerning the environment. I would have liked to "see" more of the town and it's people. Her characterization of Jackie and Cole was satisfying, though don't look at the cover hunk as an indication of Cole's description. Also, I have to say I suspect one character was patterned after Dolly Parton!!

Despite a somewhat predictable ending, it passed the time.

Once again Deb Stover has delivered a sexy romance guaranteed to put fire in the blood. This romantic time-travel is will certainly keep you warm on a cold winter night.

A romantic mountain get-away results in Blade absconding with Jackie Clark's car, money, and credit cards. Determined to leave the cabin that lacked plumbing and electricity, Jackie begins the long trek down the mountain. Caught unprepared for a snowstorm, she takes refuge in a ghost town where she's plunged backward in time to the year 1801. In a hilarious case of mistaken identity, everyone believes she is Lolita Belle, a famous salon singer expected by Rupert P. Goodfellow of the Gold Mine Salon. As Jackie flees the salon, she plunges right into the arms of a Mel Gibson look alike by the name of Cole Morrison.

A widower, Cole is raising his son Todd alone. But mining only nets him enough to keep Todd fed and clothed. Desperate for a better life, Cole contracted to kidnap Lolita Belle in return for enough gold to buy a ranch in Oregon. But he wasn't anticipation the fierce attraction he would feel toward the woman he believes to be Lolita. When he kidnaps her, Cole quickly realizes that his raging passion for this woman is matched only by his raging guilt for having taken her against her will.

Bu Jackie's problems aren't limited by being transported back in time. Her red dyed hair convinces everyone of giving her Lolita's identity, despite lacking the heavy curves, or the voice of the salon singer. Indeed, the salon keeper believes that every "miner in this area will spend his paycheck in the establishment" to enjoy her entertainment, and will go to any length to ensure his profits.

Appropriately dressed for her own time, Jackie starts out only wearing a thin tee shirt and a pair of jeans--tee shirts are non existant and jean worn only by men in 1801. And when she leaves half her clothes at an artist's bungalow, things only go from bad to worse. Covering herself with feathers only results in a nasty rash. And when a Blade look-alike shows up, who identified himself as Rock, Jackie feels more threatened than ever.

This delightful time travel has it all: kidnapping, mistaken identity, romance. Deb's unique talent for characterization and plots keeps readers satisfied. If you love time travel and romance, A MOMENT IN TIME is a must read!

Poor Jackie Clarke had more than a bad hair day! Deb Stover has taken time travel to the ultimate step in this story! Her books are 'must reads' in my opinion and this one is no exception!

Fall of Terok Nor was a good, but not great, first book of the whole Millenium Saga. My main complaint is that not much happens over the course of 400 pages. While what does happen is well thought out and interesting, it takes a long time to happen. Sometimes this is good -- we get interesting views, theories, etc., but sometimes it's the opposite. At times, it seemed the authors needed to prove that they know everything about Star Trek, and have to write in unnecessary detail about things past.

Fortunately, this was pretty good. It's about time that ST writers have done what they should've done long ago -- go above and beyond. It hasn't happened yet in other series, but DS9 finally is beginning to write books that aren't just episodic entries, but add to and enhance the big picture. Books are also getting longer, with more detail and better writing. Keep it up DS9.

As long as it was, this book was a very quick read, and all of the characterisations were quite good. While not the best of the Star Trek books, I am sufficiently motivated to read the other books in the trilogy and play the forthcoming game based upon them, The Fallen.

I don't as a rule read Star Trek books. Too often I've felt that the slower pace of a novel takes too much action away from what is, after all, an episodic TV series. But Deep Space Nine was different in that it was a highly serialized TV show, and the experience was more like "watching" a long novel, one that took seven years to read.

So, with some trepidation, I picked up the first book of the "Millenium" series, "The Fall of Terok Nor". I read the entire thing in two sittings. For the most part, the book definitely captured the characters and their relationships very well, and the plot (a basic whodunit) moves along at a good clip for a 400-page novel. And the cliffhanger ending, which I won't spoil for you here, makes me thankful that the first and second volumes of the trilogy were published simultaneously.

Covering a time span reaching back before the pilot episode of the show forward to 25 years into Star Trek's future, the novel begins to set up a plot of epic proportions. From Odo's, Quark's, and Garak's "missing memories" from the Day of Withdrawal, to the mysterious Red Orbs, this trilogy begins to link together certain events that actually took place during the show's run in a satisfying way, enriching the already-deep history the TV series established.

While Kira, I felt, was horribly underutilized (she *is* the second in command, after all), the characterizations drawn of Jake Sisko, and especially Dr. Julian Bashir were well done; all the rough edges and shoulder-chips the characters have also come through clearly.

A final confrontation (a running joke about "waste extraction" in the TV series is taken to a gross extreme when the showdown with the bad guys takes place in DS9's sewage treatment facility) runs on a bit too long, and the cast of characters gets a bit unwieldy, but overall this first volume of "Millenium" shows promise for more interesting developments to come. I certainly was surprised I enjoyed the book as much as I did.

"The Fall of Terok Nor" by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and the first of the Millenium triology, is definetly worth reading!

The first book of the trilogy, "Fall of Terok Nor" is probably the best, and it is a great intruduction intot he trilogy. I highly reccomend it for anyone who is a fan of DSP, Star Trek, or Science Fiction, because it is definetly worth reading, even i fyou were to only read it, and not the other two. (It has a bit of a cliffhanger at the end, so I would read all three)

The story starts out on Deep Space Nine. An Andorian merchant was found dead on the ship and Odo blames Quark. Two Cardassian bodies are found melded in the hull of the ship by Chief O'Brien. Many other odd things happen, including the finding of the orbs of Jalbador, believed to be no more than a myth to Bajorans.

This story is wonderful, and I can't stress it enough. I also commend the authors, awho are fantastic in no tonly just Star Trek books, but other titles as well.