![]() ![]() ![]() In the same building, the White House Office of Signals duly made a high-quality tape of the report and had it walked to the Oval Office. Stanley went to the window, then hurried to open the front door as Troy Louden came up the walk. Hey, girl, the one with dark hair says with a Southern accent.What are you doing out at this time of night?Ī little after six, just after the news came on, a taxi pulled up outside and stopped at the curb. He had no reason to hate the guy, except maybe for the robe anyway, it was Catherine who had made the choice. No, for the Ural Mountains in the region of Perchorsk had been for some time far more security-sensitive than even the Baikonur Space Centre in the days of the Sputniks.Įugene grunted, and let the muzzle of the rifle drop a few inches.ĭecker was calming down. Certainly nothing substantial-other than the evidence provided by the satellites-had leaked out of Russia herself nothing, that is, in the way of normal intelligence reporting. In very small, very powerful and highly secretive defence circles throughout the Western World there had been worried discussions about APB (Accelerated Particle Beam)shields, about nuclear- or plasma-powered lasers, even about something called aMagma Motor which might theoretically tap the energy of the small black hole believed by some scientists to lie at Earth's core, simultaneously feeding upon and fuelling the planet but all such discussions had been purely conjectural. What exactly they saw had never been made public or even hinted at outside of higher-echelon and correspondingly low-profile government departments, but it had been sufficient to jolt America's SDI orStar Wars concept into real being. Perhaps my biggest positive takeaway is from Chapter 21, "Hearing Aid": "Tell me about the God you love tell me about what He has inspired uniquely in you tell me about what you're going to do about it, and a plan for your life will be pretty easy to figure out from there." (p.Despite all the USSR's technological camouflaging countermeasures, that test, too, had beenseen by the American spy-satellites. I'd be curious to find out how, exactly, Goff does engage the scriptures, as well-given his aversion to "Bible study." Sometimes the book feels geared more toward Christians already well versed in the Bible, to move them out of head knowledge and into action, living out what they believe. ![]() I'm still SMH a bit on that chapter in _Love Does_. We give "satan" (little-"s" intentional, because Goff made _such a point_ of that) too much credit? How would Goff respond to 1 Peter 5:8, or Ephesians 6:10-17? Maybe we do give the devil a lot of credit, and when he gets more credit than our Savior, I fully agree that's problematic. Still other times, I felt the scriptures or stories themselves somewhat shoehorned into the point Goff was attempting to make. ![]() (The $400 room-service-bill prank on a honeymooning BFF? Really? I kept waiting for him to say, "Don't worry, I did actually cover the bill," but he never did. Other stories, though, I just found at best tacky. Several of the stories were literally-LOL funny. With all its 5-star reviews, I feel somewhat in the minority (and probably am).Ĭertainly, Goff writes engagingly (much like I envision he speaks live/in person), and I understand the appeal of the read. ![]()
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