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Product Detail ISBN:1-57683-940-0 ISBN-13:9781576839409 Format:Paperback Trim Size: 5x7 Page Count: 217 Sex is a topic many christians are more than a little uncomfortable discussing. For many christians, this book delivers on it's title. Matthew Paul Turner gives not only the clinical information that no book about sex should be without, but scriptual advice on sexual topics, from a focus

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Product Detail ISBN:0-9768175-4-3 Format: Softcover - Trade Paper Trim Size: 5x7 Page Count: 208 Carton Qty: 48 The Pocket Guide to the Bible is a sometimes-humourous book about The Bible, its contents and its history. I enjoyed it. Though, in a couple places, it felt like he may have sacrificed relevance for the appearance of hipness. Unfortunately, in those places, the hipness falls a

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I read 'Searching for God Knows What' this weekend. In it, Donald Miller argues for a Christianity that is more focused on a relationship with Christ. Too often, in evangelical denominations, the Gospel can be over-simplified, boiled down to a checklist or bullet-points that hit the highlights without conveying the greater story, essentially separating the meaning from the truth. One theme that

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This is actually the second time I've read this book. But, like many books of a philosophical nature, you gain a little more, maybe a little different, insight on each reading. I can't speak to the quality of their translation, as I don't read or speak ancient Chinese. But, while reading the essays and commentary included in the book you get the impression that they have gone to great lengths

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I finished Don Miller's "To Own a Dragon: reflections on life without a father". This is undoubtedly a book I will read many times. The book is fourteen short chapters, each dealing with a specific area that Miller felt was impacted by the lack of a father in his life.A recurring idea in the book, is the God-as-Father metaphor with which every christian is familiar. What Miller gets at is not

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When I read what Jon over at "Stuff Christians Like" wrote about Donald Miller I was pretty sure I'd have to read "Blue Like Jazz". It's a great book. I wish I could have read it years ago. When I first started reading it, I compared it to Mere Christianity, because it seemed they both fit in the same niche. But, Miller's book is so much more than that. More than an exposition on what

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I've started reading Donald Miller's "Blue Like Jazz". The subtitle for "Blue Like Jazz" is as fit a description as any:"Nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality". There are parallels between Miller's book and C. S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity". The conversational syle of both books doesn't give the impression that the authors have an agenda. However, Miller draws more anecdotes from his

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It was a good read. What I liked most about it, and that you don't often see in 'religious' books, is that he frequently refers to the feedback he got from the radio talks and from sending the text to friends in the clergy to be critiqued before publishing it. Many authors would just read the notes and feedback, and either edit the book accordingly, or ignore them altogether. Lewis handles it

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I started reading "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis tonight. If you're unfamiliar with it, it is a collection of books he wrote on what it means to be a Christian. The first book was adapted from radio talks he gave over BBC radio during WWII. His goal in the three collected books, is to explain the core of Christian belief. Those things to which all Christian faiths adhere. Going so far as to

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