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I have always loved to read!
Join me as we read a new book each month. I would love for you to read these books with us. I think they would be good for your understanding. I would also love for you to join in a conversation with me about these works. I will post a summary / critique of the books for you to read and I look forward to seeing your thoughts!
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Current Trend
"You can be young, passionate about Jesus Christ, surrounded by diversity, engaged in a postmodern world, reared in evangelicalism, and not be an emergent Christian. In fact, I want to argue that it would be better if you weren't."
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Hot Button Issue
This book is the classic historical and biblical defense of an idea that the church cannot fellowship with those who deny the doctrines of the historic Christian faith. In print for thirty years, Biblical Separation has been updated in a new format that retains all of the material of the first edition and adds new chapters by Ernest Pickering and Myron Houghton.
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Cultural Understanding
For more than forty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for a clear, readable introduction to worldviews. Using his widely influential model of eight basic worldview questions, James Sire examines prominent worldviews that have shaped the Western world:
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Age of the Earth
This is an excellent digest of the “Age of the Earth” issue, specifically in the context of some modern systematic theologies that are influencing ministerial, and thus public, opinion related to this matter.
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To read the critique / summary, click HERE
