Worldviews are stories, after all. This is the Christian worldview, the True Story, told again as such.
Give it a read, skeptic who needs the Story toWorldviews are stories, after all. This is the Christian worldview, the True Story, told again as such.
Give it a read, skeptic who needs the Story told in an imaginative (though not false) way that steals past the “watchful dragons” of your intellectual bias. Give it a read, unbeliever who needs rational and logical support to believe the Story many have called a mere myth.
Give it a read, Christian who needs to be reminded what a good and beautiful Story it is that we know to be true. ...more
Os Guinness’ work masterfully encapsulates all types, aspects, and root causes of the doubts that constantly affect the believer. He both gently handlOs Guinness’ work masterfully encapsulates all types, aspects, and root causes of the doubts that constantly affect the believer. He both gently handles the “bruised reeds” (Matt. 12:20) of believers plagued by doubts, and also lovingly reprimands the once-fiery now passionless Christians who permit doubts to plague them.
The most important aspect of this book is Guiness’ direction for a solution to the doubts. He is practical and truthful, prescribing short-term solutions, but points always to the long-term solution of God’s faithfulness. It is the existence and character of God that are the solution for doubt, and NOT the strength of our faith in Him.
Basically, read this. A great book to commence my Impact 360 Fellows reading list....more
I audiobooked this, which undoubtedly had benefits, but I think I will have to buy the paperback eventually. I am already convinced it would be worth I audiobooked this, which undoubtedly had benefits, but I think I will have to buy the paperback eventually. I am already convinced it would be worth a re-read, and soon.
What are women, the daughters of Eve, to be doing while "in exile"? For Christian women today, the answer is no longer simple and plain. That is what makes the message of this book so important. Rebekah Merkle clearly and practically details the history that has brought us today's form of feminism, showing (more than telling) how the feminist agenda is innately at odds with the Christian idea what women should be. But (to my initial surprise), she also shows how the version of womanhood built around the idealized idea of tradwives and the like also does no better at achieving true femininity.
When I finished this book I at first wished it was longer...and then I realized why it wasn't. Merkle is not interested in providing a sequential method or high-resolution image of how to be a godly woman today. Rather, she is interested in putting forth what Scripture says about what it means to be female within God's good and intensely beautiful design, and have us translate that. Translate it, into our current day, with all of the resources, lives, & abilities we have been entrusted with stewarding.
I would immediately and enthusiastically recommend this to any Christian sister who wishes to know how God would have her live. As I listened, I was almost brought to tears on multiple occasions, for this book contains the truth about Biblical femininity expressed so beautifully one cannot help but see it is very good....more
To any young Christian woman hoping to one day be married, READ THIS BOOK!! Douglas Wilson presents thoroughly Scriptural advice for young ladies thatTo any young Christian woman hoping to one day be married, READ THIS BOOK!! Douglas Wilson presents thoroughly Scriptural advice for young ladies that is absolutely paramount to approaching dating wisely. Wish I had gotten ahold of this book earlier, but I will be recommending it to so many people (there's also a version for guys called "Get the Girl"!)....more
I don't know if this is my favorite C.S. Lewis book ever, but I believe that this may be the work that best shows his ability to skillfully and beWow.
I don't know if this is my favorite C.S. Lewis book ever, but I believe that this may be the work that best shows his ability to skillfully and beautifully display the art of mythopoeia (myth-making). Yes, the story of Cupid and Psyche is his source material. And yet the story is so new, not just because the reader walks around in Orual's (Psyche's sister) head, nor because of added details and character dialogue. Rather, because of the deep and wondrous ties to the True Story this myth contains, one has cause to wonder if the original myth was not a likeness of the Gospel story from the beginning.
Can there be love that grows to be nine-tenths hatred and one-tenth love and yet it is still called love? I probably need to re-read this book already....more