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Missing the Point – Final Review…

Posted in Book Reviews, tagged , , , on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

If I were rating this book on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the best) I would have to rate this book as a 1.  As I’ve stated in the  previous chapter reviews I felt that what good points the authors tried to raise were  almost immediately sullied by weak if not wrong [...]

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Missing the Point 04 – A bright spot…

Posted in Book Reviews, tagged , , , on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As  I traversed through the book “Adventures in Missing the Point” I found myself getting more and more frustrated as time and again the authors would go from making valid points to giving invalid arguments based on faulty premises or downright wrong theology.  Having just finished a mostly ambiguous chapter on homosexuality I braced myself [...]

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Missing the Point 03…

Posted in Book Reviews, Doctrinal Issues, tagged , , , on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The author of the second chapter (Missing the Point: Theology) starts by stating that “everyone is a theologian.”  This is not necessarily a false statement as everyone from the atheist to the highly religious person has a set of beliefs about God, and as the author points out, this is, in its most basic form, [...]

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Missing the Point 02…

Posted in Book Reviews, Doctrinal Issues, Philosophical Thoughts, tagged , , , on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Chapter 1 titled “Missing the Point: Salvation”.    The author of this chapter lays out that the church has potentially missed the point by becoming overly decision oriented (my terminology).  He points out that terms like “accept Christ as your personal Savior” and “sinners prayer” are not found in the Bible.  He points out, accurately I [...]

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Missing the point 01…

Posted in Book Reviews, Philosophical Thoughts, tagged , , , on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’m reading through the book “Adventures in  Missing the Point”, which is NOT about proper evasive techniques for sword fighting.  Actually, that would probably be a more useful book.  This book, written by Tony Campolo and Brian McLaren,  has an absolutely wonderful subtitle:  “How the culture-controlled church neutered the gospel.”
I picked this book up at [...]

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Book Review(s): “Grant” by Jean Edward Smith

Posted in Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

*Note:  This post has two segments.  The first a “short” book review, the second (after the jump) a longer review of Grants life.
This past Christmas my wife, knowing my interest in all things historical, gave me a biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Jean Edward Smith.  Up until this point I had known of [...]

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Book Review: “Made in Our Image”

Posted in Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I finished my literary journey through Steven J. Lawson’s book “Made in Our Image”.  Lawson sets out to confront the popular “user-friendly” image of God that is seen in secular and even religious circles.  The term “user-friendly” is used because “many present-day thoughts about God have been so trivialized that He appears human like [...]

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Book Review: Heretics / Orthodoxy

Posted in Book Reviews, Philosophical Thoughts, tagged , , , , , on November 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »

In case the few, yet distinguished, readers of this blog haven’t noticed, over the past month or so I have been working my way through Gilbert K. Chesterton’s book(s) “Heretics / Orthodoxy.”  This book was originally 2 books, one aptly named “Heretics” and the other “Orthodoxy” but has been combined into one edition.
I say that [...]

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Book Review…

Posted in Book Reviews, God's Sovereignty, tagged , , , , , on June 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Or perhaps I should say “Booklet Review.”  Whilst enjoying a week at The Wilds Christian Camp I noticed that my wife had brought along the book “What is a True Calvinist?” by Philip Graham Ryken.  Having finished up my ordination doctrinal statement I thought I’d see what that book was about.  The book, or booklet, [...]

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Book Report…

Posted in Book Reviews, tagged , , on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This past week I finished the biography of John Adam’s written by David McCullough.   This 651 page account of John Adam’s life is one of the most in depth biographies that I have read.  A primary reason for the amount of detail that Mr. McCullough was able put into the biography was in no small [...]

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