Archive for August, 2007

Mother Teresa Remix

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Wow. What a bombshell! 
Or was it? 
What was it about Mother Teresa that compelled us to build her into more than your usual saint?  Are we so desperate for modern-day spiritual heroes - evidences for the life transforming power of God - that we permit ourselves to filter out reality?
Are there any ’saints’ other than ourselves?  Mother […]

Justice in the Burbs, by Will & Lisa Samson

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

This books hurts, unassumingly at first, of course.  But then zero’s in on those areas of the Christian life we love to ignore.
 
Chapter one addresses the obvious first question - why a book about justice, particularly in the burbs?  Justice, according to the authors, simply means ‘acting right in our relationships’ - living by […]

Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat?

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

“Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat? - a man’s guide to the loaded questions women ask”, by Stephen James & David Thomas (2007, Tyndale)
 
Christian authors, James & Thomas, discuss with consistently disarming humor, the common conversational perplexities between men and women.  Each of the seven chapters present a frequent, seemingly straightforward, yet mine-field laden […]

The Shack, by William Young

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Most of us have wrestled with some tragedy through which we find ourselves angrily accusing God of not caring. We sit in judgment of God demanding answers to a myriad of tearfully asked questions: Why did You let such-and-such happen when you could have made a difference with just a word? Why didn’t You answer […]


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