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Book Reviews
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Hitler's Cross by Erwin Lutzer |
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Nonfiction
The Reformers and Their Stepchildren by Leonard Verduin
This book is good in that it gives the perspective of other people who lived and died by the ideas of stepping back from government and stepping into kingdom living. I find it confirming to have come to the same conclusions others did without having exposure to them before I came to my own understanding. This book will open the doors of history many everyday Christians know nothing about. It will give a very different perspective on what the church's relationship to the state should be.
Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauerwa
Resident Aliens is generally a good book. The author encourages us to think about life and its engagements from a perspective outside of belonging to where or what we are involved with or living before we came to Christ. We are living in the world but we are not supposed to be part of it in the means of going at life the way the world does. If they (the non-believing world) can see no difference between them and us, there really is no difference except in our minds. People cannot understand what they do not see in our lives. This book helps to give further perspective on the role of living as an alternative to the status quo of church or society.
Paul's Idea of Community by Robert Banks
Hearing God by Peter Lord
This book has opened my mind to something that few dare to speak about today. The book is not only profound but also profoundly simple. In learning to listen to God we can live out of what He says to us today. Instead of being left to try and apply what God has said in the past that might relate to our situations today, reacting in our own strength. We can allow God to tell us what to do in concert with what He is doing. We won't be fighting the hand of God nor will we be facilitating the enemy's agenda through our own well intended but fleshly efforts. We will be acting out of what God is saying. "Faith comes by hearing the word of God".
Hell's Best Kept Secret by Ray Comfort
Spiritual Warfare by Dean Sherman
This is the most balanced book concerning this subject I have ever read. It helped me to see that the fight is both in the world as well as inside our head, the church and the way we were raised culturally. Most people who cover this subject only point to the world and exterior sources for the war we fight. This book brings a lot more into focus for us to consider.
The False Presence of the Kingdom by Jacques Ellul
This writer is unknown to many Christians in America and certainly many religious conservatives. He gives us another perspective on the kingdom than either Evangelicals or conservatives. This guy is a thinker but easy to read. His thoughts are well defined and stark. This author shows us that when we go along with the discussions of the world under their terms we become one of them rather than being the means of perspective for the world to see that there is something other than conservative or liberal, and this would be the Kingdom of God.
Hope in a Time of Abandonment by Jacques Ellul
This book also is a mind opening experience. Ellul helps us to see that there are times of abandonment that God allows in order to get our attention. God's silence is evidenced by man's increasing verbosity. This should be a clue to us to seek God out and come again to find our hope in Him during the time of abandonment. There is much talk in conservative circles; but it is not God's speaking. It is man speaking because of God's silence.
Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Church by Dean Merrill
The Unseen Hand by A. Ralph Epperson
This work is good for giving us perspective on modern history. I do not agree with the author as far as that we can make a real change in the course of this world through the means of political intervention. However, this book helps us to understand that not all that we know about history is true and that any view is just as revisionistic as any other. This book is well documented and a worthwhile read. I do not believe in conspiracy on the human level as this book tends to ply its case. But certainly a case could be made for demonic influences that orchestrate what can be documented and viewed as mere conspiracy on the part of men.
Unveiled at Last by Bob Sjogren
This is a wonderful book that paints a vivid picture of ideas that are not common. For one there is responsibility that belongs to "the being" of what it means to follow Christ. Bob tells us that we are blessed, "top line" to be and make a "bottom line" blessing on the world around us. Many Christians would give passing agreement to this concept but the facts of our living it are next to nil. The author confronts this problem head-on.
Real Christians Don't Dance by John Fischer
What the Cross Can Do That Politics Can't by Erwin Lutzer
The Shaping of Things to Come by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost
Kingdom Citizens by John Driver
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
Biographies
One Shall Chase A Thousand by Mabel Francis
This biography tells about the life of a woman who was sold out to Christ, not country and not denomination. Her impact on the country of Japan for having done so was immense. It is encouraging to see a person give what is normal for people outside of our kingdom (freedom and belonging national/religious)so that they can be dynamic in the Kingdom's work.
Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand
Another biography about a fellow who lived between organized religion and the state. This work is a breath of fresh air to the stale ideas of domination and procrustean techniques of cultural interventions through politics. Combined with his work: From Suffering to Triumph, Wurmbrand shows us that the world will come to us when we play our game God's way.
From Suffering to Triumph by Richard Wurmbrand
Another biography about a fellow who lived between organized religion and the state. This work is a breath of fresh air to the stale ideas of domination and procrustean techniques of cultural interventions through politics. Combined with his work: From Suffering to Triumph, Wurmbrand shows us that the world will come to us when we play our game God's way.
Living on the Devil's Doorstep by Floyd McClung
Bruchko by Bruce Olson
Count Zinzendorf by Felix Bovet
This is a wonderful biography of one of the most remarkable missionaries and thinkers of the modern church. This fellow lived in between organized "religion" and the state. He lived a precarious life of living relationship to the Lord rather than reaction to the state or the issues of the moment. The Moravians show us a wonderful picture of people who formed a culture of alternative. We are still the benefactors of these who did not use the world's system of politics as a means to changing culture.
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