[Book Review] "The Chasm" by Randy Alcorn

Submitted by ccoppen
on April 6th, 2011 at 11:48:20 AM

Disclaimer: I received this book free from Multnomah Waterbrook's Blogging for Books program.

Author Randy Alcorn takes us on a journey through our own lives through the eyes of Nick Seagrave in an allegorical fashion. "The Chasm" is a sequel of sorts to "Edge of Eternity" but can be read alone. In this book, we follow Seagrave as he is led by a character named "Joshua" to see all of his sin laid out before him via the gray paths, all of which seem to lead to the great chasm which keeps him from crossing over to the great city of Charis.

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Al Mohler to nominate Mark Driscoll for President of the SBC

Submitted by ccoppen
on April 1st, 2011 at 7:52:48 PM

Today, April 1, 2011, Dr. Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, KY, announced that he was nominating Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA to be the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Mohler says that even though Driscoll is not even Southern Baptist, he would be a good fit as president. Says Mohler, "Pastor Mark basically believes and teaches the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message and that should be all that is required.

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Mark Driscoll and Joel Osteen Switch Churches For a Day

Submitted by ccoppen
on April 1st, 2011 at 9:54:18 AM

Megachurch pastors Mark Driscoll and Joel Osteen met in secret early on April 1, 2011 to discuss their switching churches for a day. Driscoll is quoted as saying, "Mar Hill doesn't have enough smiling white teeth and happy, feel-good motivational speaking. Who better to bring that than Joel? He may not preach the Gospel, but at least the people at Mars Hill will feel good about themselves for a day." Osteen said, "Mark brings the kind of preaching that Lakewood has never heard, and probably won't again.

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Free Audiobook of the Month - "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom

Submitted by ccoppen
on April 1st, 2011 at 9:39:15 AM

Most of us have heard about how Corrie Ten Boom's family hid Jews from the Nazis during World War II. Now you can download and listen to the story for free during the month of April. Christianaudio.com is making "The Hiding Place" free during the month of April. Download here.

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Thankful for Rob Bell

Submitted by ccoppen
on March 30th, 2011 at 10:30:58 AM

I'm thankful for teachers like Rob Bell, Brian McLaren, Greg Boyd, and others like them who openly teach heresy. Their teachings allow us the opportunity to examine the Word of God and confirm that what the Bible says it true, whether it's about Hell, the Sovereignty of God, homosexuality, the Omniscience of God, or even the salvation of people by God. Anytime a new teaching, or even an old teaching disguised as a new teaching, crops up, we need to look to the Bible to see what it says about that topic. We should not let our emotions overrule what the Bible says.

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[Book Review] "The Dragon and the Turtle Go On Safari" by Donita K. Paul and Evangeline Denmark

Submitted by ccoppen
on March 28th, 2011 at 3:31:59 PM

Note: This book was received free as part of LibraryThing's early reviewer program in exchange for an honest review.

This book features a dragon and a turtle camping out, telling stories to each other. In the midst of it all, the dragon gets scared when he hears a noise in the woods and the turtle encourages the dragon to be brave and venture out. All irony about a scared dragon aside, this book is an enjoyable little read for children.

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[Book Review] "The Canary List" by Sigmund Brouwer

Submitted by ccoppen
on March 28th, 2011 at 1:14:20 PM

Note: this book was provided by Blogging for Books for free in exchange for an honest review. The book will be released on 6/21/11 and is available for pre-order from Amazon.

What do Satanism, demons, Dan Brown, an atheist school teacher, foster children, Vatican City, conspiracy theories, and the Catholic Church have in common? Author Sigmund Brouwer use all of the above to draw you into this quick read of a fiction book. While you may think of Frank Peretti when you think of demons being used in a fiction book, that's not Brouwer's intention here, with one exception.
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[Book Review] "Pujols: More Than the Game" by Scott Lamb and Tim Ellsworth

Submitted by ccoppen
on March 23rd, 2011 at 11:05:29 AM

Disclaimer: I received the book free from Booksneeze in exchange for an honest review.

Nolan Ryan, Mark McGwire, and Ricky Henderson were some of my baseball heroes growing up. I would contend with anyone that Ryan is the best pitcher the game has ever seen. In recent years, we've seen many baseball stars brought down by allegations of steroid abuse, McGwire included. Albert Pujols is not one of them. To be honest, I've mostly been in the dark about baseball over the past 10 years or so and had no idea who Pujols was when I selected this book for review.

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The Gospel for Muslims - Introduction

Submitted by ccoppen
on March 22nd, 2011 at 9:26:10 AM

This is a series of posts I am going to do on sharing the Gospel with Muslims. Hopefully, when I'm done, I'll be able to compile the posts into an e-book.

In today's society, Islam is the new Communism. I remember growing up in the 1980's during the Cold War and hearing about threats of nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union. I was in eighth grade when the Berlin Wall fell down. It was just after my ninth grade year when I was able to travel to Russia as a young missionary and share the Gospel openly on the streets.

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Revolution in the Middle East

Submitted by ccoppen
on March 21st, 2011 at 1:20:39 PM

I've hesitated to write anything on the situation in the Middle East just so I could wait and see what was going to happen first. Basically, what we have is people uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, and now Libya. Are these Islamic uprisings? That is the question I hope to answer for you, if you're exploring for answers. How will Israel be affected? Yet another question to be answered. So, let's look at what's going on here.

Egypt: You have a President who came to power on the heels of the assassination of Anwar Sadat, because of Sadat's friendliness to Israel.

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