Good Books?

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Several months ago, someone asked what good movies people had seen lately. So, in that spirit, what books have you read lately that you would recommend to people on this forum?

Besides the Bible, that is. Unless you would like to recommend a good "special edition" bible that you have read lately, like "The Leadership Bible" (not an endorsement, just one I glanced at the other day at the store).

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

Answers

This is an easy one :)

"The Revival Lectures" by Charles Finney. This would be my number one recommendation to anyone.

A book that I recently read and would recommend is "From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya" by Ruth A. Tucker. It is a history of missions and missionaries. Very factual, with no punches pulled about the lives, frailities and mistakes of missionaries of the past. There is a lot of learning in this book.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000


Has anyone read "The Christian Conspiracy" by Dr. L. David Moore? I rec'vd a copy last week while I was out of state. Haven't even unpacked it yet. Looked as though it might be interesting. Comments?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

Glanced back and see I didn't recommend the one I am reading/studying in addition to the Bible.

I am only 10 chapters (of 45) into it, but I can recommend those 10 chapters wholeheartly. It's "How Now Shall We Live" by Chuck Coleson and Nancy Pearcey. Coleson proposes in the book (and backs it up well) that we are living in a post-Judeo-Christian era, in a kind of "exile", and as such we need to change our tactics in how we face and challenge the world. We often come from a basis that there is an absolute truth (which there is) and assume that others do too. We cannot assume that. We need to establish firmly for ourselves a proper Christian worldview, then challenge the prevailing worldview where the world is at, in their terms, a thought he labels "pre-evangelism". Once that is done, then we can work on conversion, i.e. evangelism.

The book appears to be more than apologetics, though the part of the book I am now in is apologetics, the scientific basis for creationism, the scientific holes of evolution theory/darwinism and why we should care to know and understand that.

The first two parts of the book alone are worth the price.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


I'm reading Colson's book and 'Jewish Literacy' by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Some of these might be hard to find, but I would recommend anything by John Fischer, especially "Real Christians Don't Dance" & "True Believers Don't Ask Why"( both with the Don't crossed out). Very challenging, different perspectives of how we live out our Christianity. For his other books and some samples of his writing, go to www.fischtank.com. If you're a fiction fan, I like the "Joshua" series by Joseph Girzone.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


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