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Playing With Holy Fire: A Wake-Up Call to the Pentecostal-Charismatic Church by Michael L. Brown
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Smith Wigglesworth: A Man Who Walked With God
George Stormont - 1989
Stormont writes not to draw attention to the life of his friend but rather to allow modern believers to grasp the spiritual significance of Wigglesworth's life and ministry.
Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt
Andrea Palpant Dilley - 2012
At twenty-three, she left the church and went searching for refugein the company of men who left her lonely and friends who pushed the boundaries of what she once held sacred.In this deeply personal memoir, Andrea navigates the doubts that plague believers and skeptics alike: Why does a good God allow suffering? Why is God so silent, distant, and uninvolved? And why does the church seem so dysfunctional?Yet amid her skepticism, she begins to ask new questions: Could doubting be a form of faith? Might our doubts be a longing for God that leads to a faith we can ultimately live with?
Consumer Detox: Less Stuff, More Life
Mark Powley - 2010
Follow along in a three-part deconstruction of today's full-throttle existence to build the kind of life that Jesus modeled.
Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God
Paul Copan - 2010
This viewpoint is even making inroads into the church. How are Christians to respond to such accusations? And how are we to reconcile the seemingly disconnected natures of God portrayed in the two testaments?In this timely and readable book, apologist Paul Copan takes on some of the most vexing accusations of our time, including: God is arrogant and jealousGod punishes people too harshlyGod is guilty of ethnic cleansingGod oppresses womenGod endorses slaveryChristianity causes violenceand moreCopan not only answers God's critics, he also shows how to read both the Old and New Testaments faithfully, seeing an unchanging, righteous, and loving God in both.