Book Reviews
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Is There Really Anything New to Learn About Jesus?
Is there really anything new to learn about Jesus? Jesus died more than 2000 years ago. Everything we can legitimately know about His life was written down within a generation of his death. So when someone claims to have a new teaching on Christ, we should rightfully be a tad suspicious. I certainly was when I began reading Tom Gilson’s new book, Too Good to be False. But Gilson claims new old truths we can learn about Jesus. The facts that Gilson points out aren’t really new, but they are things that even dedicated believers like myself may have never considered. His way of looking at the life and ministry of Jesus…
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How to Defeat Female Body Image Issues for Women of Faith
Defeating female body image issues meant getting real about the root of those issues. First, separate the facts about female body image issues from the lies. Lie #1 – My life will be better when I fix my body. I would be happier if I were thin. People would like me better if I was skinnier. Having a better body will improve my marriage. I’ll have more self-esteem if I look thin and toned. If my body looked better, I wouldn’t have any issues, right? I was so wrong. Nothing I did to improve my appearance solved any other problems I had in my life. I still had to learn…
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How to Talk with Kids about Jesus
I used to think I knew how to talk with kids about Jesus to help them establish a lasting faith. It seemed simple enough. Read the Bible. And absolutely, the Bible is where we should begin. Reading the Bible together regularly is the best way to open a dialogue with your kids about Jesus. Everything about Jesus must begin with the Bible because that is how God chose to reveal His truths to us about Himself, the world, and Jesus. But, that isn’t as simple as it used to be. My parents taught me that the Bible was truth, and that was that, until college, where I first faced atheism…
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How to be Right So People Will Listen
Knowing how to be right so people will listen is not a skill I’ve mastered. I’m working on it, but it does not come naturally, at all. I’ve always been the kind of person who has next-level skills of thinking I’m right, sometimes even when I’m not. GASP. Becoming Christlike means I have to actively unlearn almost every single character trait, but especially my all too human instinct to believe I’m right. However as Christians, our worldview is right: God is real. The Bible is His divine word. Jesus is the Messiah. But there is a wrong way to be right. Being right the wrong way can destroy relationships and…
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Do you Dare to Really Know Jesus?
If you would consider to dare to know Jesus, I invite you to give Him some serious thought today. Whether you’re a Christian or not, you probably claim to know Jesus, at least in broad strokes. In fact, worldwide, no one person has influenced history more than Jesus. The way we even measure history has been using His birth since A.D. 532. While using Before Christ has become less politically correct, the era still changes approximately at His birth. But which Jesus do you know? There is only one historical Jesus in reality, but how He is painted, described, even taught can vary wildly. And sadly, not even every person…
