New Review: Strong

SO if you all remember a little while back I did a review of an anthology called Empowered. Well here is the companion book for boys titled Strong.



Much like Empowered, Strong features the biographies of 11 men who have championed their faith in Jesus. Prior to reading this book, I'd only heard of two of them Jim Elliot, husband of Elisabeth Elliot, and famed baseball player Jackie Robinson. Each man has been chosen for a specific attribute that they represented such as humility, compassion, and endurance. I'll be honest I'm not much of a Jim Elliot fan, so his inclusion is one I'm not particularly interested in. (That is an entirely different topic that would need its own blog post on a different platform)

I also noticed she chose men who have no controversy and reform attached to them. It is as if she stuck to appeasing to a conservative audience. There is no mention of men like Martin Luther King Jr who as a pastor used his faith to help bridge gaps and bring positive progress during the civil rights movement.

For the most part, I think it is a decent book. It would be an interesting read for youth of all ages to read and learn about people who followed their beliefs no matter the cost. My plan is to have my kids read both this book and Empowered as I think they could learn a great deal about apologetics from them. And for that reason, I definitely would recommend to other moms for their home library as people of all ages could learn from their stories.




{As always I received this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest opinion.}