The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world. . . I had been right in feeling all things as odd, for I myself was at once worse and better than all things. The optimist’s pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the […]
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And They Sang A New Song
I saw in my dreams that just as Christian came up to the cross, his burden loosed from his shoulders and fell from his back and began to tumble till it came to the mouth of the sepulcher, where it fell in and I saw it no more. Then was Christian glad and lightsome and […]
Repeat His Mercies In Your Song
Give to our God immortal praise; Mercy and Truth are all His ways; Wonders of Grace to God belong, Repeat His mercies in your song. Isaac Watts I have never been a musician in any technical sense of the word. I can play C, G & F on a guitar and sometimes D, A & […]
Are We Hurting Or Helping?
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify […]
Willow Creek Seeker Services
For those who see church methodology as biblically neutral, this 1996 book may be a source book for using market driven techniques. For those who see church methodology as a reflection of who we are in Christ, you may not want to waste your time with this book other than to gain an understanding of […]
The Coming Evangelical Crisis
The sub-title to this timely volume is, “current challenges to the authority of scripture and the gospel.” Like other Moody books of this kind, this 1996 book is a compilation of articles by men of a Reformed or conservative Evangelical persuasion. They include R.C. Sproul, John MacArthur, Michael Horton and others. This reads much like […]
Born After Midnight
Three Books By A. W. Tozer I don’t know what you may like to read while you’re on a vacation. I think reading nothing at all may be the best. But this time I took three familiar Tozer books with me in hopes that I would be uplifted and drawn back into focus in my spiritual […]
Christian Reflections
I am going to review another book by Lewis because it also has a few chapters that are worth the price of the book. His chapter on culture is interesting because I find that other generations had to answer the same questions as ours. His chapters on ethics and reality speak volumes to our new […]
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes
This is a 1989 book in the Turning Point series put out by Crossway Books. This whole series has been very helpful to me in defining culture and putting it in the proper historical perspective. Myers deals primarily with popular culture as compared to high culture and folk culture. Myers writes, “Popular culture, like the […]
For Glory And For Beauty
I wish that the young men might have something to rid them of their love ditties and wanton songs and might instead of these learn wholesome things and thus yield willingly to the good; also, because I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the […]