When Sea Billows Roll

When Sea Billows Roll, by Paul Schlener
This is Paul Schlener’s second book.
While still in the United States Navy, during World War II and out at sea, Paul and his shipmates turn to God for His protection during the worst storm ever. You will experience life in the storm and at sea in the same manner as “A Perfect Storm” (movie), but God is in this story.
I asked several of my friends to read this story and write reviews, rather than always hearing from me. As I receive their reviews I will post them.


This one is from Marilyn E., and she writes: “This is the story of the USS Cape Esperance during the Cobra and Viper typhoons as told from the experience of an 18 year old sailor, Paul Schlener.


“Waves battering the Esperance were in excess of 93 feet. Paul was 62 feet above water level on an open bridge holding his earphones on with one hand and the other hand clutching a one inch vertical pipe to hold himself against the ships bulkhead to keep from being blown overboard. Rugged men and immature teens wept with fear, desperately pleading with a God they neither knew or wanted anything to do with, until there was no hope!!


“This book had me gripped and I read it in a few hours. Now I am eager to pass it on to a friend who I know will enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you, Paul, for a great story.”

January 16, 2013  ... whenseabillowsrrol says:

Dear T...the blog for the above author, has moved...please ask all that need a book to personally write to the address in the book.


easy reading.
Publisher: Aspen Highlands Publishing (2010)
ISBN-10: 0981632815
ISBN-13: 978-0981632810

You Don't Have To Be Blind To See

You Don't Have To Be Blind To See, by Jim Stovall
subtitle: Find and Fulfill Your Destiny Regardless of Your Circumstances

Jim Stovall, a Christian businessman, desires that everyone should fulfill their destiny regardless of health, finances, or any other excuse we wish to use to keep
from achieving a fulfilling life and/or career. In challenging us to that end he tells his own story of how he was born with sight and gradually went blind. He tells of the challenges and struggles he went through while going blind, and the challenges he meets daily, his faith in God. But also, that the challenges are, in most ways, pretty much the same as the challenges that we are met with each day. The difference was his faith, his motivation and his attitude. Plus, he did have to add extra effort.

Jim Stovall went on to become an Emmy winner for building a television company that enabled blind people to “watch” television. He built a successful business at which he enjoys working.

Here is a quote from page 235, “…[V]irtually everybody else on the planet is going to think your idea is stupid. A few close friends or family members may embrace your idea, but they may embrace it only because it is important to you and not because they think that your idea or your dream is the greatest idea or dream they have ever encountered. … Prepare to face the hard, cold reality that nobody is going to be a continual source of motivation. You are going to have to become your own source of motivation.”

“Candidly evaluate why you do what you do.” “Choose to be a positive person. … Stay positive. Even if you fail, look for the lesson learned and apply it to your life.”

This book is staying on my bookshelves.


278 pages, easy reading.
ISBN-10: 0-7852-7737-4

The Harbinger

The Harbinger, by Jonathan Cahn
subtitle: the Ancient Mystery that holds the Secret of America’s Future

This book is written as a narrative novel, but is author Jonathan Cahn’s way of getting out the message of some fascinating revelations from the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York. He brings both Biblical history and United States history together in a revelation garnered from Isaiah 9:10 & 11. (Even the reference may be mystical.)


The style of writing is not to my liking, but the intricate details that Cahn has discovered and revealed were more than enough to keep me reading. A detailed, 2-day interview can be seen on Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural television show, archived on the Internet.

Why is this man able to write this story at this time? Cahn is a Messianic Rabbi (for those who don’t know, that means he is an Israeli pastor/teacher who believes that Jesus IS the promised Messiah). Cahn grew up and still resides in the New York City area.

There are nine harbingers that the narrator reveals as he relates his experience and conversations with a prophet or angel to a publisher. In these harbingers he reveals how an earlier experience of Israel’s is now being repeated in the USA and for us to get the message and get our country right with God, quickly.

Read all of Isaiah chapters 9 & 10 for contextual reference to the details in this book. Then check out the historical connections.

Is Cahn a modern day prophet? Will he speak and, just as in the days of Israel’s prophets, we won’t listen, but instead, will we laugh and scoff?


262 pages, easy reading
ISBN 13: 978-1-61638-610-8


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