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Jesus Died for This? Review (Kind of)
A couple of months ago I saw Becky Garrison offer her new book (Jesus Died for This?: A Satirist’s Search for the Risen Christ )to anyone who was willing to blog about it. I try to get a free book anytime I can. That’s how I roll. Anyway, I didn’t know much about Becky Garrison…
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Jesus Died for This? Review (Kind of)
A couple of months ago I saw Becky Garrison offer her new book (Jesus Died for This?: A Satirist's Search for the Risen Christ )to anyone who was willing to blog about it. I try to get a free book anytime I can. That's how I roll. Anyway, I didn't know much about Becky Garrison…
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Review: Coming Home to Your True Self by Albert Haase
Coming Home to Your True Self: Leaving the Emptiness of False Attractions by Albert Haase Not too bad of a book. I wasn’t real impressed at first, but he does a good job of discussing the true and false self. Fairly easy to read. Perhaps the best part of the book was the last chapter which…
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Practical Atheists
After all, most of us professing Christians, from the liberals to the fundamentalists, remain practical atheists in most of our lives. This is so because even we think the church is sustained by the “services” it provides or the amount of “fellowship” and “good feeling” in the congregation. Of course there is nothing wrong with…
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Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch My rating: 5 of 5 stars There are some books that after you turn the last page, you know you will be different. You can’t always explain why, but in the course of reading it, you know something deep within you has been changed. This book…
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We Will Finally Get There
After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters In After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters N. T. Wright states, Jesus came to help us discover who we really are, and sometimes, as with Jesus’s first followers, it takes a while for people to figure it out, and they make mistakes as they’re doing so—but they’ll…