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Wild At Heart

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

DT: Wednesday…April 18, 2001 FR: Wes Roberts RE: A VERY important suggestion… Good Morning… If you fit into one or more of the following categories, then this suggestion is a definite “must” for you. Why? I’ll let you know after you pick which category/categories you fit into. I know everyone this is sent to fits […]

Reaching For The Invisible God – Philip Yancey (Review)

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-050 (Book Review) REACHING FOR THE INVISIBLE GOD – Philip Yancey (HarperCollins / Zondervan, 2000, $A14.95) Reviewed by W L James When Maria, wife of the great missionary pioneer James Hudson Taylor, lay dying in China in 1870, she told her husband that “for ten years past there has not been a […]

Hard To Be Holy

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The Spirit of Things on Sunday 11/02/01 Summary: In the 1950s it was one of the happiest professions, but today the clergyman or clergywoman is more likely to be lonely, depressed and generally unfulfilled. As a result, many are ‘burning out’ and not only leaving their positions, but leaving the church as well. This week […]

Sir Cliff And The CD

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Britain’s pop stars are cursing the success of the Lord’s Prayer on the billboard charts. Sir Cliff Richard (see link #3 below), a Christian, is an aging pop musician with 14 No. 1 hits dating back to the 1950s. His latest hit, the Lord’s Prayer set to the music of Auld Lang Syne, has spent […]

Cult Mind Control

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Steven Hassans Latest book Releasing The Bonds: Empowering People To Think For Themselves http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0967068800/cultawareinforce is now available. (The original title for this book was "Free Them! Breaking the Chains of Cult Mind Control") Steven Hassan presents THE state of the art guide on how to help someone involved with cult mind control. Hassan’s newest book […]

Christi-Anarchy (Book Review)

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Struggles of an inclusive evangelical – CHRISTI-ANARCHY (Dave Andrews; Lion Publishing, Oxford, 1999) reviewed by Mark Young The late Anglican Bishop Ralph Wicks used to say in the midst of his three hour Good Friday services that “Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship”. This is a hardy seed of an idea: an […]

The Winning Attitude – A Postscript

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-147 (Leadership Issues) WINNING ATTITUDE: A Postscript In CLM 788 (18 Feb 1999) Rowland Croucher, the CLM List Founder, reviewed John Maxwell’s book _The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success_ Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993. In the review, Rowland wrote: ….He’s half right. So what’s the half he didn’t get right? Well, […]

Top Ten Christian Books Of The 1900’s

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-005 TOP TEN CHRISTIAN BOOKS OF THE 1900s as compiled by Andrew Butcher from his worldwide poll. The list, in order, is as follows: (1) The Bible; (2) Mere Christianity by C S Lewis; (3) Knowing God by J I Packer; (4 equal) Perspectives on the World Christian Mission Movement edited by […]

Cults: Recommended Reading

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Here are some of the books I suggest for people to read to help them overcome manipulation etc: Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0892813113/redirect-home/cultawareinforce Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships; Janja Lalich, Madeleine Landau Tobias; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0897931440/redirect-home/cultawareinforce Out of the Cults and into the Church : […]

Suggestions For Reading

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From an esteemed American friend, Wes Roberts (8 November, 2000): A number of people on our email list have been responding to recent emails and letters and asking what I would recommend reading…listening to…for Christmas gifts for friends, loved ones, themselves. One dear saint says that she always gets and reads and/or listens to what […]

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