Genre: Religion / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth

52-Week Prayer Practice for Women by Chellbee Johnson

52-Week Prayer Practice for Wo..

Posted 06/28/2026 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

52-Week Prayer Practice for Women is a book that I expected to really like, but turned out to be just OK. In this book, Ms. Johnson gives weekly journaling prompts, with a “monthly” prompt every four weekly prompts. Each weekly prompt covers a specific topic, includes an object lesson or anecdote, a scripture, and then several questions to answer along with a prompt to write out a prayer for specific things. Some of the topics/prompts are quite convicting – such as going to other people when sad or disappointed instead of going to God first – while others are run-of-the-mill things we probably hear from our own pastors every Sunday morning. If the book hadn’t been just a ton of journaling prompts, I might have liked it better. However, I am not someone who is excited about journaling period, much less journaling by having prompts. I gave this 3.5 stars […]

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The Joy of an Uncluttered Life by Joyce Meyer

The Joy of an Uncluttered Life..

Posted 06/15/2026 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Despite the fact that most people on the Internet consider Joyce Meyer to be one of the “prosperity gospel” preachers, I don’t see her in quite the same light. While I do see how some might consider her to be part of the prosperity gospel group, I also note that she does things differently. For one, she doesn’t tell you that if you do what she says, pray for all the good things, and send all the money, you’ll have a prosperous life, a good life, and never have bad things happen to you. She acknowledges that bad things happen. She also, unlike many of the prosperity gospel group, gives you the actual Scripture references. She doesn’t just say the Bible says or Scripture says, spout something off, and never tell you where it said it. Which brings me to The Joy of an Uncluttered Life – because as always, Mrs. Meyer […]

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