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The Believer's Guide to Legal Issues
A Christian lawyer offers practical advice and biblical counsel. Easy-to-read plain English. Saves you $ in wasted legal fees. Exposes how lawyers manipulate clients. Gives real hope for real peace.
- GenresLaw
208 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2008
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About the author
Stephen L. Bloom
5 books2 followersA frequent media guest and speaker, Stephen Bloom is a lawyer with 25 years experience, now of counsel at Irwin & McKnight, P.C. In 2010, Stephen was elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, where he represents the 199th legislative district. He was previously an adjunct instructor at Messiah College, a columnist for Crosswalk.com, and host of the "Practical Counsel - Christian Perspective" radio program.
He is the author of "They've Crossed the Line: A Patriot's Guide to Religious Freedom" (2013, God & Country Press) and "The Believer's Guide to Legal Issues" (2008, Living Ink Books)
Stephen has been active in leadership of numerous community and ministry organizations. He is a longtime member of the Christian Legal Society.
Residing along the Blue Mountain, near Carlisle in Pennsylvania's beautiful Cumberland Valley, Stephen and his wife, Sharon, are blessed with three grown children, one daughter-in-law, and one grandchild.
Follow Stephen on Twitter @StephenLBloom and @RepBloom
Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. --- Psalm 127:1
He is the author of "They've Crossed the Line: A Patriot's Guide to Religious Freedom" (2013, God & Country Press) and "The Believer's Guide to Legal Issues" (2008, Living Ink Books)
Stephen has been active in leadership of numerous community and ministry organizations. He is a longtime member of the Christian Legal Society.
Residing along the Blue Mountain, near Carlisle in Pennsylvania's beautiful Cumberland Valley, Stephen and his wife, Sharon, are blessed with three grown children, one daughter-in-law, and one grandchild.
Follow Stephen on Twitter @StephenLBloom and @RepBloom
Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. --- Psalm 127:1
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September 22, 2008
This book was pretty fun, especially since Erin & I know the author.
Bloom's book is a good basic introduction to the application of general biblical principle to particular issues in the realm of law. He doesn't go very deep into any of the issues. Rather, he covers a wider range of topics to show how biblical ethics should drive our thinking in these areas.
For example, in the chapter on taxes (an area I'm particularly interested in), Bloom doesn't go into any details on tax law, deductions, nonprofits, income, etc. Rather, he takes Jesus' command to "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's" and illustrates and explains it in our day and age.
I would recommend this book as a general introduction on applying biblical principle in the legal realm. It is pretty engaging, contains a good mixture of stories and direct discourse, and was easy to get through.
The major thing that distracted me was that many of the stories are told in the form of two or three people reminiscing on the history of their legal choices. While this worked well at first, I could have used a bit more diversity in the narrative technique along the way.
Bloom's book is a good basic introduction to the application of general biblical principle to particular issues in the realm of law. He doesn't go very deep into any of the issues. Rather, he covers a wider range of topics to show how biblical ethics should drive our thinking in these areas.
For example, in the chapter on taxes (an area I'm particularly interested in), Bloom doesn't go into any details on tax law, deductions, nonprofits, income, etc. Rather, he takes Jesus' command to "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's" and illustrates and explains it in our day and age.
I would recommend this book as a general introduction on applying biblical principle in the legal realm. It is pretty engaging, contains a good mixture of stories and direct discourse, and was easy to get through.
The major thing that distracted me was that many of the stories are told in the form of two or three people reminiscing on the history of their legal choices. While this worked well at first, I could have used a bit more diversity in the narrative technique along the way.
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