Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from July, 2010

How language came to be

How language came to be : " (HT: 22 words )

Humanitarian Jesus

Humanitarian Jesus Humanitarian Jesus is a book written by Christian Buckley and Ryan Dobson.  I heard about this book through several different websites.  It sounded interesting, even though I wasn't exactly sure what it was about.  When I saw this offered on the Christian Audio website, I knew that I had to snatch it up.  Now that I have finished listening to this book, I have been referencing it all of the time.  This book definitely got me to think. The book deals with the balance between doing things for people and the sharing of the gospel.  The author illustrates this debate well with the pictures of a sandwich and a tract representing the two sides of the debate.  He asks, do you give a tract before the sandwich, after the sandwich, or stick the tract in the sandwich?  This is much bigger than a sandwich and a tract, but I think you can get the point. My favorite part of the book is the fact that in the second half the auth...

Living Faith: In the Goodness of God

God is good... ...All the time! That is such a great statement, and one that we are learning at Church.  We have been discovering the reality of God's goodness and His unchangeability in the beginning verses of the Book of James, but there are many in our Church that are also learning this lesson through the trials that they are enduring. If you have been questioning the goodness of God in your life, then you may need to heed James' warning in  verse 16 of chapter 1, "Don't be deceived, my beloved brethren..." Download and listen to Living Faith: In the Goodness of God