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God’s Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church © 2007 InterVarsity Press 181 pages This book promised more than it delivered. McDermott never gets around to suggesting an answer to the question of why God allowed different religions. He starts with a chapter on “The Scandal of [...]

Here’s another gem from Stories With Intent regarding the Good Samaritan: The fear of works righteousness is far too exaggerated in most churches. Would that there were an equal fear of being found inactive!

We’re approaching Christmas. Picture Jesus, the newborn infant, lying in a manger. Now answer these questions: Did the newborn Jesus cry like any other newborn or was he supernaturally peaceful? Would the newborn Jesus be recognizable as something different from the rest of humanity by a stranger, or would he look just like any other [...]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo © 2005 Translation by Reg Keeland © 2008 Knopf 465 pages I bought this because I felt like reading something different. I don’t often read murder mysteries, but Barnes & Noble had a stack of these books at the front of the store alongside a very persuasive write-up. The [...]