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The Story of Christianity: The Early Church to the Present Day

by Justo L. González

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Ollie Chandler Collection: Three Novels: Deadline, Dominion, Deception

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What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Qur'an

by James R. White

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William Dicks is on page 789 of 843 of The Story of Christianity The Story of Christianity: The Early Church to the Present Day by Justo L. González progress:	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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William Dicks is currently reading: What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Qur'an by James R. White read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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William Dicks marked as to-read: Paul: An Outline of His Theology by Herman N. Ridderbos	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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William Dicks recommended Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics to Terry Rayburn Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics by Moises Silva	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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William Dicks rated a book 4 of 5 stars Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics by Moises Silva read in March, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
You can read a quick review of this book at my blog.
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William Dicks rated a book 4 of 5 stars God's Lavish Grace by Terry Virgo read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I have written a very short review at my blog.
May 03, 2013 09:14am · see review
William Dicks made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Page numbers topic "Hi there, Could you please add the page numbers to Transformed by God's page? I have the book in my possession and it has 192 pages. Thanks! "
Apr 14, 2013 08:43am
William Dicks rated a book 4 of 5 stars Why Africa is Poor: And What Africans Can Do About It by Greg Mills read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a very interesting book to read about the plight of Africa in the midst of unprecedented amounts of foreign aid. The book shows clearly, with examples, that simple aid is no the answer. It also points to two of the big problems in Africa: Lead...more
Apr 06, 2013 01:53am · see review

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“Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.”
― Charles Colson, How Now Shall We Live?

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“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.”
― Augustine of Hippo

tags: bible

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“The reason that [Greek grammar is] good for you, of course, is that the depth of your preaching or teaching from the New Testament depends in large part on how well you handle the original Greek.”
― David Alan Black

tags: new-testament-greek, preaching

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“If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.”
― John Piper

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7 people liked it