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The Quest for Comfort: The Story of the Heidelberg Catechism
from Guy Waters Feb 24, 2012 Category: Book Reviews
Since my son is now only a year or two from entering elementary school, I look forward to sharing with him the historical treasures of the Reformed faith. In a culture that pants after the new and that wearies of the old, the church ought to be one place that prizes her own history. We prize history not because we are arcane antiquarians but because we are called to run our race "surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses." God has something to teach both our children and us from the halls of history.
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Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books
from Starr Meade Feb 10, 2012 Category: Book Reviews
I ended by liking Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books. I came to the conclusion, well before the final chapters, that this book has something helpful in it for all kinds of people. But I must admit that I was baffled by the opening pages.
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7 Toxic Ideas Polluting Your Mind
from Starr Meade Dec 16, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
7 Toxic Ideas Polluting Your Mind.The title sounds scary. The book's cover looks scary. The truly alarming thing about the book, though, comes with the realization of how very common, how all-pervasive these ideas are in contemporary Western culture. If I were explaining any one of these ideas to the average American, she would nod in understanding and agreement as she listened. If I should suggest that this is one of seven ideas an author suggests is harmful, my listener would probably frown and say, "What? What's wrong with that?" Keep Reading
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From Billy Graham To Sarah Palin
from Guy Waters Oct 10, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
Near the close of the 1976 U.S. Presidential campaign, Newsweek magazine famously declared 1976 the “Year of the Evangelical.” In subsequent years, Jerry Falwell’s “Moral Majority,” Pat Robertson’s “Christian Coalition,” and James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” assumed leading roles on the stage of American political life. Each strongly identified with the Republican party and conservative public policy.
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Feminine Threads
from Starr Meade Sep 16, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
“Christianity is a religion of history.” With these words, Diana Lynn Severance launches into a comprehensive survey of church history from the New Testament to the present day. As is obvious by the book’s title, Feminine Threads: Women in the Tapestry of Christian History is a survey intended to be selective. Severance brings two particular aspects of church history into sharp focus: the roles of individual women in that history and the way the church has thought about women through the centuries.
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Saving Leonardo
from Terry Yount Sep 05, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
Nancy Pearcey’s second book about culture in 5 years, Saving Leonardo is subtitled A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, & Meaning. Refined through lectures at Philadelphia Biblical University, Saving Leonardo complements her earlier book, Total Truth (2005). According to jacket notes, Saving Leonardo addresses the student of culture, with the goal of exposing secularism’s destructive and dehumanizing forces. Readers are left with one caveat: what you see and hear in the arts and popular media is not the innocent expression of personal opinion, but often deliberate antagonism toward a Judeo-Christian world and life view.
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Ideas Have Consequences
from Carl Robbins Jun 27, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
In 1948 the brilliant Richard Weaver penned his important book Ideas have consequences. In this book Weaver demonstrated the moving worldviews of the day and showed where they were taking us. Weaver was trying to articulate the big ideas that shape our culture. In the last 25 years several Christian thinkers have focused on different angles of this issue.
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The God Who Is There
from Starr Meade Jun 20, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
She was understandably frustrated. She had called from another state to learn how she could remedy the educational program for home school families she had been hired to direct. She complained that, though the program claimed it was making Christ known to students, it provided no specific teaching either in Bible or in Christian doctrine. As we talked, I realized her frustration was only going to increase when she tried to fix the problem.
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Esther & Ruth
from Lane Keister Jun 13, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
It is a privilege to review Esther & Ruth, coming as it does from one of this reviewer's favorite series, and written by one of this reviewer's four favorite living Old Testament commentators (the other three being John Currid, John Mackay, and Dale Ralph Davis). I tend to purchase everything written by these four authors, and I would heartily recommend that Reformed pastors do the same. It will never be money wasted.
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Reverberation
from Eric Watkins Jun 03, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
This is a fine little book. I would happily recommend it to lay people, pastors and elders. It is written with both ordained and lay people in view. The style of the book is conversational rather than academic. The book communicates well and includes a number of catchy phrases and memorable anecdotes. Leeman is clearly a good story-teller. He writes from a Reformed-Baptist perspective, as is evidenced by the majority of the book’s endorsers, citations, and especially his doctrine of the church.
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