false 16 112 84 true 5736625 read 8 true 93823 currently-reading 20 true 93822 to-read 31 false 898299 childrens 19 false 898306 non-fiction 17 false 898309 theology 17 false 898322 classics 16 false 898313 fiction 9 false 898325 arts 6 false 898654 biography 2 false 898666 poetry 2 false 898310 missions http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37192911 to: In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust (Hardcover) by Robert Marshall
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27373079 to: Let the Nations Be Glad! 2d ed. (Paperback) by John Piper
bookshelves: missions, non-fiction, theology
Piper's book is one of the most helpful, biblical explanations of what missions is about and why it is necessary: because there are people who do not yet worship God and confess Jesus Christ as Lord.

The second edition has a very helpful appendix dealing with missions and worship styles, and the absence in the New Testament of specific commands for the style of how we worship. Christianity from the beginning was a culture crossing religion, one able to adapt culturally while holding to the central message that in Jesus Christ God reconciled the world to himself.

I highly recommend "Let the Nations Be Glad! 2nd ed." ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15952079 to: Seeing Through Cynicism: A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion (Paperback) by Dick Keyes
bookshelves: non-fiction
This book was a helpful reflection on the pros and cons of cynicism. After defining and describing cynicism, the book draws on the story of Job, themes of God's providence and the gospel of grace, to show the limits of cynicism and to restore hope in God, in people, and in institutions such as marriage, the church, and government. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22497953 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer (Paperback) by Christopher Hitchens
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22497921 It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God (Paperback) by Sandra Bowden
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22497864 The Holy Spirit (Contours of Christian Theology) by Sinclair B. Ferguson
bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22260850 to: The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century (Paperback) by Francis A. Schaeffer
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22260805 to: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (Hardcover) by Timothy Keller
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22260724 to: We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels (Paperback) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
bookshelves: classics
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