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Hey everybody, Pastor Burton here and it's time for a coffee break.

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And this time we're going to do another book review.

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It's been a while since I did one and you know I know what I said in the past, you know

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I had a couple books that I wanted to do reviews on and I did.

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I've actually finished the books but I just kind of dropped the ball.

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It's on me, I'll be honest.

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But I didn't get around to them.

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So this time I did want to go ahead and do a quick review over one of those books that

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I've been meaning to share.

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And this time we're looking at Quotes to Live By by Josh Mendoza.

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Now the spelling of his name is a little different.

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It's J-O-S-U-E.

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He goes by Josh.

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I've known him for several years now.

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Matter of fact, we used to serve together on the same praise and worship team years

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and years and years ago.

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He's currently the music director at another church here in the Albuquerque metro area.

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Now I will say as much as I love my brother and I can't stress it enough, love, love,

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love my brother, I do believe that he should have described this book a bit differently.

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Now I'm not saying it's a bad book.

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It's not.

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But it bills itself as being much larger than it is and much different than what it is.

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Right on the cover it calls itself a biblical foundation for modern thinking.

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And the blurb on the back basically says it's an in-depth dive into apologetics and theology

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through personal quotes.

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Now I'll tell you in a mere 32 pages it's anything but.

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It just doesn't have the time, let alone the depth to go into it.

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Each page that's there, matter of fact, has simply a quote.

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It's ranging anywhere from one to three quotes depending on how it's typed out and everything.

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And really, these quotes, they're his thoughts.

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Now while the book does call out to the Bible and biblical principles and so on, it does

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so at the sacrifice of reference and depth that's been promised.

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Especially for those who don't have an in-depth biblical background or who are not familiar

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with things like apologetics or theology, this is really going to come out of left field

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for those kinds of people.

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Now like I said, he does have a lot of great things in here.

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However it's my mindset that the book itself is not represented properly.

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And while it does speak to some people and will speak to others, it will not speak to

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all.

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Really, this is a very short book.

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It's only a couple bucks right there on Amazon.

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It's not like it's going to break the bank or anything.

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But this book is really, it's more of an appetizer than it is an entree.

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So keep that in mind.

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Again, that's Quotes to Live By by Josh Mendoza.

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I'll put his name and everything here in the descriptor once I post this.

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And that, my friends, is our coffee break for today.

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God bless.