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Hi!

Have any of you read (or seen the video) James Kennedy's book "Why I Beieve, Revised and Expanded"? Would you recommend it?

How about "Basic Christianity" by John R.W. Stott?

Any other books along the line of the above that you would recommend?

Thanks! Robin

-- Anonymous, August 11, 2000

Answers

"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

-- Anonymous, August 11, 2000

All of C.S. Lewis's books and Francis Schaeffer's ~ 'The God Who is There', 'Death in the City', 'How Shall We Then Live?'; Colson's books are pretty good, (he 'borrowed' part of Schaeffer's title for his latest book ~ with Frankie Schaeffer's permission, I think), but I have been re-reading books from the time when I became a Christian (most out-of-print). One is John Noble's 'I Found God In Soviet Russia', and one by Marta Gabre-Tsadick, the first woman senator in Ethiopia, titled 'Sheltered By the King'. She was appointed by Emperor Haile Selassie, a Christian. It gives an account of her and her family's escape through terribly harrowing circumstances from the takeover of the Marxists who overthrew Selassie.

A statement in chapter two states: "Our home was no better than anyone else's. But we had one big advantage. Mother was a dream- builder. She kept reminding me that my name meant 'servant', and that for a follower of Jesus Christ this was the most favored of all positions. "Being a servant is an attitude of the heart," Mother often said.

Another one, which I can't find right now and have forgotten the author was: 'I Shall Mount Up with Wings as Eagles'.

Respectfully,

-- Anonymous, August 11, 2000


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