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Books & Culture

House Churches are Isolationist and Cult-Like?

January 15, 2010

Question: Are house churches more likely than conventional churches to become isolationist and cult-like?
Apparently at least one blogger thinks so, and had the guts to quote George Barna’s research to support his assertion! Author and researcher George Barna responds to this assertion in a recent blog post of his own.
First, I found the alleged bloggers [...]

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Can Christians be Capitalists?

January 9, 2010

I just listened to Jay W. Richards, author of Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperOne, 2009) give a talk at the American Enterprise Institute to a predominantly young evangelical Christian audience, addressing this question (Listen Here).
I would have to agree with Jay that the answers is “Yes” [...]

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Kindle DX

January 7, 2010

Amazon’s new Kindle DX starts shipping January 19, 2010. The price is $489.

Kindle for the Mac is also coming soon!

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Common Sense Economics

December 31, 2009

One of my sons gave me a stack of books for Christmas:

Common Sense Economics
The Constitution of Liberty – Frederich A. Hayek
The Law – Frederic Bastiat
Knowledge and Decisions – Thomas Sowell

I am currently reading Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity and really learning from and enjoying it! This book is written [...]

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That Blue People Movie

December 22, 2009

Went to see this epic James Cameron sci-fi, fantasy film over the last weekend with my wife. Saw the 3D version which you wear the glasses for. Unfortunately the theater was so full we could only find seats in the back row or the front row, so we went with the back row. Had a [...]

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Environmentalism as Religion

December 21, 2009

Michael Crichton was a famous author and speaker whose many books have been made into movies such as: Jurrasic Park, Congo, The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and many others. He also was the creator of the successful and popular ER television series.
Before his death in 2008 from throat cancer, he had became an outspoken skeptic of man-made global [...]

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More Books I’ve Read Recently

December 20, 2009

Here are some more books I’ve recently read.

The 4:8 Principle – Tommy Newberry
The Search for God and Guinness – Stephen Mansfield
The Survivors Club – Ben Sherwood
Safely Home – Randy Alcorn
Deception Point – Dan Brown
The House Church Book – Wolfgang Simson
The Blood of Lambs – Kamal Saleem
The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
Same Kind of Different as [...]

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Conservative Economic and Political Resources

December 8, 2009

A friend recently asked me to put together some resources on the conservative economic and political worldview (especially from an evangelical Christian perspective), so that he could become better informed on this viewpoint. I decided to turn my research and information gathering into a blog post so that others might benefit from it as [...]

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The Talking Mirror

November 17, 2009

Today I’m happy for a friend named Conor McCarthy whose website at TheTalkingMirror.com was featured in an article in the Chicago Sun-Times. The website features satire written mostly toward and about evangelical Christians in an attempt to not take ourselves so seriously, and to humorously point out our own issues, dysfunctions and often weird thinking [...]

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The Red Dot Approach

September 13, 2009

As mentioned in an earlier post, a good friend recently gave me a book to read by Dr. Larry Crabb entitled: “Real Church: Does it Exist? Can I Find It?” I have finished reading the book and have been reflecting on it and discussing it with good friends since then.
Dr. Crabb spends the first 20 chapters [...]

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