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June 10
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Jason
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Why I Left The Contemporary Christian Music Movement: Confessions Of A Former Worship Leader (Paperback)
by Dan Lucarini
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read in June, 2008
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"In Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement, Dan Lucari recounts his immersion in, and abandonment of, the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) movement. And then he equips us to defend traditional music from CCM promoters and challenges th...more
In Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement, Dan Lucari recounts his immersion in, and abandonment of, the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) movement. And then he equips us to defend traditional music from CCM promoters and challenges the "Contemporaries" to leave behind the favored, man-centered music of the world and return to God-honoring musical styles. In short but substantive chapters, Lucari answers tough questions such as Isn't music amoral? (partial answer: the general concert of music may be amoral, but particular musical styles -- developed by man -- are not), Isn't CCM easier to sing than traditional hymns?, and Isn't God using CCM to save and disciple teens? Lucari also responds to the "show me" challenge: "Show me where the Bible says that rock music is evil." Lucari writes well, is challenging yet humble, and has given us a book worth reading, owning, and sharing....less
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June 08
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Jason
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Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by Robert C. Mason
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Jason
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Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time (Paperback)
by Rob Neyer
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Jason
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Silent missions (Hardcover)
by Vernon A Walters
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June 07
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Jason
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The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea (Hardcover)
by Bob Burg, John David Mann
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read in June, 2008
Jason said:
"A book with great principles, not just about about business, but about life. Unfortunately, those principles are presented through some really bad dialogue. The book would have been more powerful had the authors research real life stories of people w...more
A book with great principles, not just about about business, but about life. Unfortunately, those principles are presented through some really bad dialogue. The book would have been more powerful had the authors research real life stories of people who had applied these principles....less
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May 31
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Jason
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan
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read in May, 2008
Jason said:
"This is a very good book (quick, easy to ready, footnoted if you want the sources, etc.) that does a few things very well. First, it explains the harms of nutrition science ("nutritionism"), which historically has broken down our food into ...more
This is a very good book (quick, easy to ready, footnoted if you want the sources, etc.) that does a few things very well. First, it explains the harms of nutrition science ("nutritionism"), which historically has broken down our food into nutrients, declared which nutrients were best, processed foods to give us those nutrients, and then consistently re-tooled the supposedly expert formulas when the science was shown to be wrong. Instead of eating food now, many of us most of the time are eating "food-like substances." Second, it explains what we *do* know about the industrialization of food, and what we do know is not good. Third, it provides us tips to get us back to eating food rather than food-like substances. Pollan concludes that food is much more than nutrition; that food, properly understood, is natural, not a product of industry; and that food is about more than fuel, it is about relationships. I give this book a 4 instead of a 5 only because of Pollan's occassional evolutionary references; for some reason, he views the benefits of natural food over industrialized food, including its relational benefits, as a product of evolution rather than the product of a God who knows what is best for us and provided that for us. All in all, though, this book really is an excellent "defense of food." And I love the tagline: "Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants."...less
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May 17
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Jason
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No More Christian Nice Guy: When Being Nice--Instead of Good--Hurts Men, Women And Children (Hardcover)
by Paul T. Coughlin
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Jason
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.)
by Jay Winik
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Jason
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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups : A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues (Paperback)
by Rob Neyer
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