Nate LaClaire's Blog

Getting Started with Buffer

Nate — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:24:46 +0000

After having several people ask me about how I spread my posts to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn throughout the day, I decided to create a video explaining how I use Buffer, a tool that makes posting to social media on a regular basis super easy. The video is below. Please watch and comment. If you [...]

Giveaway: “Poke the Box” by Seth Godin

Nate — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:05:07 +0000

About a year ago I read a fantastic book by Seth Godin called Poke the Box. The publisher describes the book as such: Poke the Box is a manifesto by bestselling author Seth Godin that just might make you uncomfortable. It’s a call to action about the initiative you’re taking— in your job or in [...]

Book Review: Unhallowed Ground by Mel Starr

Nate — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:33:47 +0000

In Mel Starr’s fourth tale of Hugh de Singleton, medieval surgeon, Unhallowed Ground, we find our protagonist investigating the murder of one Thomas atte Bridge after this unlikable fellow is found hanging from a tree. While Master Hugh would like to believe the popular opinion that the victim took his own life, his finding of evidence to [...]

Review: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (audiobook)

Nate — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:22:23 +0000

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has to be one of his most loved works and also one of the most widely known Christmas stories. Published in 1843, the novella tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who is visited one Christmas Eve by four “spirits” whose mission is to save him from himself. In Mission [...]

Review: Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley

Nate — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:07:38 +0000

In Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, pastor Andy Stanley calls readers to break free from the destructive power of guilt, anger, greed, and jealousy. These four forces, says Stanley, have the power to destroy your home, career, and friendships if left unchallenged. They take over your life, destroy [...]

Review: Work Matters by Tom Nelson

Nate — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:25:56 +0000

In Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work, pastor Tom Nelson offers a new perspective on work, providing a look at God’s purposes for work in a way that is both practical and theologically based. He helps readers to make the most of their God-given vocations and to treat their work as God intended, as [...]

Flood Victims in Pakistan Need Your Help

Nate — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:01:05 +0000

I recently received a distressing email from Javed Irshad, who, with his family, runs a Christian ministry in Pakistan, reaching out to Pakistani children. Here is what Javed shared: Dear Brother Nate, Christians in Pakistan are in “grievous distress” as large swathes of Pakistan are once again submerged in water. Serious flooding has forced thousands [...]

Review: Lit! by Tony Reinke

Nate — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:08:29 +0000

In Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books, former journalist Tony Reinke offers a theology for reading as well as practical suggestions for reading. Using scripture and a great deal of additional research, Reinke provides Christians with a deep, multifaceted look at the topic of reading. Pastor C. J. Mahaney’s foreword does a thorough job at [...]

Review: Honestly by Johnnie Moore

Nate — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:38:56 +0000

In Honestly: Really Living What We Say We Believe, Johnnie Moore, vice president and campus pastor of Liberty University, challenges readers to live an authentic Christian life. He argues that one of the chief problems with Christians, particularly those in the US and other developed countries, is that we have become hypocrites, whether intentionally or otherwise. We [...]

Review: So You Want An Online Book Tour by Jaime McDougall

Nate — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:08:14 +0000

In her latest e-book, So You Want An Online Book Tour: An Author’s Guide to Online Book Tours, author Jaime McDougall has used her experience as a professional blogger, book tour coordinator, and book tour host to provide other authors with an easy-to-follow guide to online book tours. McDougall speaks to those authors who want to take on [...]

Review: Waking Hours by Lis Wiehl with Pete Nelson

Nate — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:15:24 +0000

Former NFL linebacker Tommy Gunderson is awakened in the middle of the night by his alarm system. Upon investigation, he discovers an elderly woman on his property who exhibits superhuman strength and keeps repeating a Latin phrase to him. Just hours later, he receives a call from a young friend who has been implicated in [...]

Review: So You Want to Write a Guest Post by Jaime McDougall

Nate — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:53:33 +0000

So, you’ve written a book and now you need to promote it. In So You Want to Write a Guest Post: An Author’s Guide to Promoting with Guest Blogging [Revised Edition], author Jaime McDougall sets out to help other authors do just that by helping to demystify the concept and process of guest blogging. In this handy little e-book, [...]

Review: Lead Like Ike by Geoff Loftus

Nate — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:10:28 +0000

In Lead Like Ike: Ten Business Strategies from the CEO of D-Day, author Geoff Loftus examines Dwight D. Eisenhower’s leadership of the D-Day Invasion in order to find management lessons for modern-day corporate executives. Eisenhower overcame tremendous hurdles, including extremely tight deadlines, the need to assemble a huge executive staff and company, a board with [...]

Review: From Pearl Harbor to Calvary by Mitsuo Fuchida (audiobook)

Nate — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:02:58 +0000

In From Pearl Harbor to Calvary, Mitsuo Fuchida tells the story of how he went from willingly leading the attack that killed over 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 to serving his creator as an evangelist who preached about the forgiveness found only in Christ. The book also shares the story of Jacob [...]

Review: Putting Plan B Into Action: A DVD-Based Study

Nate — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:03:16 +0000

You have a story. Everyone has a story. A story of plans that didn’t turn out as expected, people who disappointed you, goals that didn’t pan out. Maybe you lost your job, you and your spouse have been unable to have children, or a loved one died of cancer. In Putting Plan B Into Action: [...]

Review: Night of the Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos

Nate — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:14:59 +0000

What does a transformed life actually look like? In Night of the Living Dead Christian: One Man’s Ferociously Funny Quest to Discover What It Means to Be Truly Transformed, author Matt Mikalatos uses movie monsters to humorously yet thought-provokingly examine this question. The story follows Matt (yes, a character in his own story, which was [...]

Review: If My Body is a Temple, Then I Was a Megachurch by Scott Davis (audiobook)

Nate — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:15:22 +0000

“For Him to increase in my ministry, I had to decrease in my waistline.” That, in a nutshell, describes comedian Scott Davis’ motivation for losing 132 pounds. In If My Body is a Temple, Then I Was a Megachurch: My journey of losing 132 pounds with no exercise!, Davis describes his journey to a healthy weight [...]

A Marriage Carol by Chris Fabry and Gary Chapman (audiobook)

Nate — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:00:34 +0000

In A Marriage Carol, Jake and Marlee Ebenezer are calling it quits on their 20-year marriage. On a snowy Christmas Eve, the parents of three young children are driving to their lawyer’s office to sign their divorce papers when they are in an automobile accident. Awaking in an empty car, Marlee assumes that Jake has [...]

Forbidden by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee

Nate — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:46:52 +0000

What would life be like if the only emotion we were capable of feeling was fear? In Forbidden, authors Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee describe a future society that believes it has evolved from the chaos of experiencing multiple emotions. As the story unfolds, we learn, with the book’s hero, that the reality is much darker: [...]

The Guardian by Robbie Cheuvront and Erik Reed

Nate — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:40:12 +0000

Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” – Revelation 10:8 (ESV) In The Guardian, agnostic Anna Riley discovers that God created her with a special purpose: [...]