The Blended Blog: Hockey Agony by Donna McDine

C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional

Monday June 2, 2025

"Good Master."-Matthew 19:16

If the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to our Lord, how much more fitly may I thus address Him! He is indeed my Master in both senses, a ruling Master and a teaching Master. I delight to run upon His errands, and to sit at His feet. I am both His servant and His disciple, and count it my highest honour to own the double character. If He should ask me why I call Him "good," I should have a ready answer. It is true that "there is none good but one, that is, God," but then He is God, and all the goodness of Deity shines forth in Him. In my experience, I have found Him good, so good, indeed, that all the good I have has come to me through Him. He was good to me when I was dead in sin, for He raised me by His Spirit's power; He has been good to me in all my needs, trials, struggles, and sorrows. Never could there be a better Master, for His service is freedom, His rule is love: I wish I were one thousandth part as good a servant. When He teaches me as my Rabbi, He is unspeakably good, His doctrine is divine, His manner is condescending, His spirit is gentleness itself. No error mingles with His instruction-pure is the golden truth which He brings forth, and all His teachings lead to goodness, sanctifying as well as edifying the disciple. Angels find Him a good Master and delight to pay their homage at His footstool. The ancient saints proved Him to be a good Master, and each of them rejoiced to sing, "I am Thy servant, O Lord!" My own humble testimony must certainly be to the same effect. I will bear this witness before my friends and neighbours, for possibly they may be led by my testimony to seek my Lord Jesus as their Master. O that they would do so! They would never repent so wise a deed. If they would but take His easy yoke, they would find themselves in so royal a service that they would enlist in it for ever.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Hockey Agony by Donna McDine

Hockey Agony

Title: Hockey Agony
Author: Donna McDine
Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing
Pages: 25
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Peer Pressure and Honesty many times go hand-in-hand. What is Larry to do when his teammate asks him to cheat when he is given the responsibility to run the clock during the big hockey game? Outwardly, it may seem he will follow suit, but his conscious tells him otherwise at the moment of truth.

Donna McDine's book Hockey Agony is just the book for a young reader that is interested in sports especially the hockey lover. It is also a good book to use if you want to talk about honesty, peer pressure, attitude, respect or responsibility. These are all good themes that the author has incorporated into Hockey Agony. I felt this book was very well written and the message is right to the point. It was a book that kept me wanting to see what was going to happen. It was very well paced in plot, not too slow. I have read many of McDine's books this is at top of my favorites of hers. Yes, I highly recommend this book.

a pdf copy of this book was provided in exchange for my honest review by....

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