Mathews deals with the subject of spiritual warfare from a front liner's viewpoint. He spent significant time on the mission field and learned tremendous spiritual lessons as he participated as a soldier in Christ's army. He shares these insights in short chapters which should be read more than once. Each lesson is relevant for today even though written in years past. Get ready to use your highlighter as you get new understanding on the believer's battle.

I read this book while I was serving as a missionary in Asia; my experiences paralleled those of the author and his insights helped me a great deal

Mathews was an officer in the Indian Army during WW II, which accounts for his liberal use of a military vocabulary in these brief and excellent studies. As someone born for battle, Mathews is obsessed (in a good sense) with the absolute and unquestioned victory of Jesus Christ. His insights, therefore, should boost the spirits of even the most down-trodden Christian. The titles of a few of the meditations on spiritual warfare and the power of Christ reveal his clear convictions: "The Soldier of the Cross" "The Soldier's Best Friend" "Our Wrestling" "Rendering the enemy Powerless" "Lions' - Den Loyalty" "Discipline Accepted . . . Mission Accomplished." It's hard to imagine how these brisk, to-the-point, yet warm devotional thoughts could fail to stir up the reader.

I read this book when I come back from a short-term missionary trip. The challenge from the trip make me to ask myself will I be a missionary. This book help me to ask myself more about my life. It help me to ask question for God's will. Am I ready for missionary? How can I know the God's plan on me? Mathews help me to know the way to be a missionary, a disciple, as he is a devoted missionary in God.

I bought this book from not knowing a thing about it or what to expect!
This book is very well written, entertaining and crammed with laughter from start to finish.
A totally irreverant but gentle poke in the eye at the old Irish catholic way of life, even the modern ones could learn a thing or two! I just couldn't put it down.
This book is a must for anyone who's ever told or heard an Irish joke.
Wether you want an insight into Irish politics, religion or just to brush up on your 'one liners' this is a book for you.
A veritable treat of knowledge and laughter!

This book can be a useful introduction to a series of problems in modern democratic theory. It also intends to lie foundations of a new theorethical approach to institutional design. In a most persuasive fashion, McCubbins and Lupia erroneously acknowledge Aristotle's theory of persuasion of the Ars Rhetorica a polis-centered context of justification, therefore they fail to prove that for Aristotle "people know each other well to see lies coming in advance". Nevertheless, they present their own theory of persuasion in terms of game theory. Based in a series of explanational concepts, backed by all the experiment data of the second part, they conclude that personal character may no play any role in persuasion, as in Aristotle's supposed theory of persuasion, as long as external forces, such as verification, penalty for lying or observable speaker's costly effort, can make the speaker tell the truth about what he knows. In their subsequent theory of delegation, they erroneously acknowledge Weber an impossibility theorem in the realm of political expertise, while presenting their own theory of delegation, again, in a game theorethical fashion, and give examples of how external forces may play a role in electoral campaigns, burocracies and courtrooms.