This book confirmed my growing uneasiness with Yancey’s recent writings. Having enjoyed older books such as Disappointment With God, it now seems to be Yancey’s mission to be as accepting of all points of view as possible while strongly criticizing his conservative background. Speaking of Catholics and Russian Orthodox, “For them the sacrament of communion, […]
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A Bend in the Road
I was given this book by my friend, Rob Hoffman, who found it to be a great help in a difficult time. I can see why it was. Jeremiah, Chancellor of Christian Heritage College in El Cajon, CA, recounts his own battle with cancer and how God graciously led him through that “bend in the […]
Loving The Brethren: an additional persp...
There is no more difficult command in the Bible than for each one of us to love the brethren. This isn’t just a worldly love in the family or emotional sense, it is agape love that gives of itself because it is right to give. Perhaps there is no more direct application to G.K. Chesterton’s […]
The True Vine
Another small and readable book in the Moody Classics series is this study on the Vine and Branches from John 15 by Andrew Murray. I would not shy away from Murray because of his early (1828-1917) holiness background. This study is rich in the kind of self-examination that believers today shy away from due to […]
We Have This Treasure In Earthly Vessels
A look at Christian selfishness Savonarola once wrote, “In the primitive church the chalices were of wood and the prelates were of gold; to-day the prelates are of wood and the chalices are of gold.”1 Paul told the Corinthians that we are less than wood, we are clay (“ostraka”) vessels. “Clay vessels are cheap, utterly […]
The Imitation of Christ
I have been recommending the Moody Classics, a series of smaller paperback books which are reprints of great writers. This is by the Dutch writer (1380-1471) Thomas of the city of Kempen near Cologne. His journey is one of self-reflection and denial—a subject which may be of distaste today. But these things ought not to be […]
Generic Christianity
[Real] Christianity seldom occupies the attention of the bulk of nominal Christians. Thus we may expect them to be ignorant also of its tenets. They will be acquainted merely with those doctrines and principles that the law of the land commonly holds or sanctions. But whatever is unique in real Christianity and should be habitually […]
Real Christianity
Bethany House has published what it calls “Classics of Faith and Devotion,” reprints of classic works in history. Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a Christian politician in England who greatly influenced public policy with Christian belief. This book, Real Christianity, has the subtitle of Discerning True and False Faith. We all wonder what it would be like […]
Chameleon Christianity
This is a 1999 Baker Book by a former associate of Francis Schaeffer at the L’Abri Fellowship. The description of Chameleon Christians is only half the analogy. The other half is of the Musk Ox Christian. The Chameleon becomes exactly like his surroundings in order to protect himself, the Musk Ox retreats into a closed […]
True Spirituality
This is one of those books by Schaeffer that I had missed reading when we were all reading Escape from Reason, How Shall We Then Live?, and The God Who Is There. In this book (first printed in 1971, containing 180 pages) Schaeffer applies the apologetic emphases of his other books into a practical guide […]