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Everything You Wanted To Know About Heaven…

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by Peter J. Kreeft Reviewed by Mike Crowl The title is a cataloguer’s nightmare – and it’s probably a bit ofan exaggeration. In spite of that, Peter Kreeft’s book is a marvellousattempt to open our minds and imaginations to the reality of Heaven, andto the wondrous things we have in store. Everything You Ever etc […]

Book Review – The Creationists

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http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/book-reviews/h/Creationists.html title: The Creationists by: Ronald L. Numbers publisher: University of California Press 1992 subjects: religion, history of science other: halftones, references, index, US$16.95 Much has been written for and against creationism, but its _history_ is poorly documented — and poorly understood by both critics and proponents. In _The Creationists_ Numbers offers us an intellectual […]

Being In Love: The Practice Of Christian Prayer

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By William Johnston Published by Fount Paperbacks, 1989. 166pp plus index The Christian tradition is rich with letters from an elder to a younger in the faith: Luke and Theophilus; Paul and Timothy; the author of The Cloud of Unknowing to an unnamed young contemplative; and Walter Hilton to a young anchoress. Following in this […]

What’s So Amazing About Grace?

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After ‘The Jesus I Never Knew’ this is probably Yancey’s second best book. (In case you don’t know this popular writer, he’s Editor-at-large for the evangelical magazine Christianity Today). Grace, says C.S.Lewis, is Christianity’s unique contribution among world religions. ‘Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more… and grace […]

Book Review – The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway To Personal Success

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Book Review: John C. Maxwell, The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993. John Maxwell is a Christian motivational speaker. He’s well-known in the U.S. and Canada, and to those associated with Hillsong, N.S.W.: he spoke at last year’s conference there. Maxwell writes and speaks in the tradition of American ‘can-do’. […]

Baraka [A Film]

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——– Original Message ——– Subject: Baraka (A film) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:48:58 +1030 From: (Greg Noone) Organization: DSTO Salisbury, South Australia Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion I originaly wrote this up a few years ago, concerning the film `Baraka’. I noticed it was on ABC TV last Friday, so thought I might post it again. —————————— […]

What You Can Change And What You Can’t

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Book Review: Martin Seligman, What You Can Change and What You Can’t, Knopf/Random House, 1994. I remember one of the first things Professor O’Neil said to the 1955 Psychology 1 class at the University of Sydney: ‘One of the most important things you’ll learn in this course is that what a lot of people believe […]

John Grisham’s Latest Novel

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By Art Toalston NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Best-selling author John Grisham has produced his best novel in years, at least in the judgment of USA Today book reviewer Deirdre Donahue. “The Testament,” released in February and his 10th novel, includes Grisham’s “trademark legal wrangling, zippy plot and engaging minor characters,” Donahue writes, “but there’s a fresh energy […]

Book Review: One Man’s Story…

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Review of Ed. F. Dickinson, One Man’s Story… of the Newmarket Baptist Church, self-published, 1998. Here’s a book that won’t make your bestseller lists but a little part of me says it should. It’s a quite amazing story of one man in (and through many years the only man in the non-clerical leadership of) a […]

Book Reviews About Jesus

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Watch this homepage for my appraisal of John Dominic Crossan’s brilliant (though flawed) study of the life of Jesus (hopefully October/November 1995). Shalom! Rowland Croucher BOOK REVIEW: JESUS, by Leon Morris (Acorn Press, 1994, pb, 112 pp.) Leon Morris is probably the most prolific Australian religious writer ever (about 50 books, followed by F.W. Boreham […]

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