To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email.

You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. He was survived by his wife, three children, two grandchildren and one brother.This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. He died after falling from a ladder at his home in Sierra Madre, California on December 19, 2002. (Rena's name before being changed by the officials at Ellis Island was Renske.) When he was two-months-old, his father died in the partially completed house he built in Muskegon, Michigan. His father, Melle Smedes, and mother, Rena (Benedictus), emigrated to the United States from Oostermeer, Friesland in the Netherlands. Lewis Benedictus Smedes was born in 1921, the youngest of five children.

His 15 books, including the popular Forgive and Forget, covered some important issues including sexuality and forgiveness. He was a professor of theology and ethics for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Lewis Benedictus Smedes (1921 - December 19, 2002) was a renowned Christian author, ethicist, and theologian in the Reformed tradition.

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