We love to read about the
questions and ideas that matter most. We like thinking about how they connect to
our imaginations, thoughts and choices in everyday life. Here are the books and
links we’ve been reading that you might enjoy as well. Many were written by our
guests.
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Godsight: Renewing the Eyes of Our
Heart
By: Lael Arrington (2005)Lael shows readers
that we need a refreshed, renewed imagination for our journey with God.
Our culture continually downloads pictures into our imagination—nicer
cars, bigger houses, dream vacations, idyllic infatuation—but God offers
us so much more than we can see.
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Pilgrims Progress Today
By: Lael Arrington (2002)This book is an
odyssey of faith for the new millennium. In this re-creation of John
Bunyan’s 17th century classic, the Dump of Despond now brims with the
toxic waste of tabloids and broken relationships. |
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World Proofing Your Kids
By: Lael Arrington (1997)This book showcases
specific strategies and learning activities to help equip parents to
raise and answer big questions about faith and life. It also
provides lists of resources to help parents pass a Christian worldview
on to their children. |
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Encyclopedia of the World's Religions
Edited By: R.C. Zaehner (1997)This book include
the prophecies and wisdoms of the world's religions. |
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When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on
Christian Evidences
By: Norman Geisler & Ron Brooks (1990)Always be
prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason
for the hope you have. |
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The Complete Works of Josephus
Translated By: Wm/ Whiston (1981)Includes the
life of Flavius Josephus, antiquities and wars of the Jews, along with
testimonies and records cited by Josephus. |
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What Would I Believe If I Didn't
Believe Anything: A Handbook for Spiritual Orphans
By: Kent Ira Groff (2004)This is a guidebook
for spiritual orphans that shows how they can "doubt their way home" by
embracing their doubts and asking the hard questions as a meaningful
path toward genuine faith. |
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Letters From A Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His
Father's Questions about Christianity
By: Dr. Gregory A. Boyd & Edward K. Boyd (1993)
This book will help you wrestle with the rational foundation of your own
faith. It will also help you know how to share that faith with the
skeptics you love. |
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Darwin On Trial
By: Phillip E. Johnson (1993)Philip E. Johnson
offers a careful, reasoned, and scientifically sound evaluation of the
support for Darwiniam--from the fossil records to molecular biology. He
argues that this hotly debated theory is based more on faith than on
evidence. |
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When I Lay My Isaac Down
By: Carol Kent (2004)This book chronicles Carol
and her husband's journey through shock, grief, guilt and fear of a
loving God who would allow such a tragedy. Yet they tell a story
of renewed faith and hope. |
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90 Minutes in Heaven
By: Don Piper (2004)This book offers a glimpse
into a very real dimension of God's reality. It encourages those
recovering from serious injuries and those dealing with the loss of a
loved one. The experience dramatically changed Piper's life, and it will
change yours too. |
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The Case for Faith
By: Lee Strobel (2000)This book is for those
who may be feeling attracted toward Jesus, but who are faced with
formidable intellectual barriers standing squarely in their path. |
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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now
(and Always Have) in the Future Tense
By: Davis Brooks (2005)This book, at once
serious and comic, describes the distinct American future-mindedness
that shapes our personalities and underlies our beliefs. |
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Reason in the Balance: The case against Naturalism
in Science, Law and Education
By: Phillip E. Johnson (1998)This book is about
God, sex education, evolution, abortion, the search for a grand unified
theory in physics, what our public schools should teach, the basics of
law, the meaning of reason and a few other things that matter. |
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Total Truth
By: Nancy Pearcey (2004)This book offers a
razor-sharp analysis if the public/private split, explaining how it
hamstrings our efforts at both personal and cultural renewal. |
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Truth: A Guide
By: Simon Blackburn (2005)Blackburn offers a
tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and
engaging issue in the whole of philosophy" - the age-old war over truth. |
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Mere Christianity
By: C.S. Lewis (2001)C. S. Lewis proves that "at the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice,"
rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations. |
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The Case for a Creator
By: Lee Strobel (2004)Find out why. The Case for a Creator shows how science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin--and discovering, behind a universe of breathtaking design, a Designer who infuses it with equally magnificent purpose. |
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How to Stay Christian in College
By: J. Budziszewski (2004)A must-read for every college student, How to Stay Christian in College will guide you through the maze of campus realities. |
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Ask Me Anything
By: J. Budziszewski (2000)Ask Me Anything will
help you achieve personal insight about controversial topics and defend
your point of view to a skeptical world. |
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What We Can't Not Know
By: J. Budziszewski (2004)Writing from a
conservative Christian perspective, Buziszewski argues that not only are
there universal moral truths, but that all human beings commonly know
them. |
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