90 Daily Devotions for Lawyers and Judges (And Those They Serve)

Bert Goolsby. Spring Lake, Mich.: Concerning Life Publishing, 2013. 181 pp. (Paperback).

I will preface this review with an assurance that it will include no lawyer jokes; I will restrain the impulse even though it may be as difficult as an Alabama fan holding back Auburn jokes. I won’t comment that most lawyers I know certainly need a book of devotions, partly because that would be rude and partly because it honestly isn’t true. 

But I will leave you to make your own comments.

This book is as the title says a collection of 90 devotions, each with a legal twist. The devotions are not feel-good little platitudes but deep and evangelistic, revealing the author as a serious Bible scholar.

For example one devotion discusses the practice of plea bargaining, then points out that after death “there will be no plea bargaining or negotiated deals. … The time for entering into an accord with the Father is now.” What follows is a short description of how to be saved. 

If you have a lawyer or a judge on your Christmas list then this might make a good gift. Especially if he or she needs a book of devotions.