Month: April 2012

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Review of Destined to Reign by Joseph Prince

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Joseph Prince, Destined to Reign: The Secret to Effortless Success, Wholeness and Victorious Living (Tulsa, OK: Harrison House, 2007). If you combine a Word of Faith understanding of biblical promises with a Dispensationalist understanding of grace, the result is Destined to Reign by Joseph Prince, a book about “being radically transformed by His grace and His grace alone” (p. ix). The Word of Faith understanding of biblical promises is evident on page 1: “You are destined to reign in life,” Prince writes, by which it becomes clear he means this life. “You are called by the Lord to be a … Continue reading Review of Destined to Reign by Joseph Prince

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Five Lies, Part 1: I’m Unlovable

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According to Dr. Jim Bradford, people buy into five primary lies that rob them of their potential in Jesus: I’m (1) unlovable, (2) unforgivable, (3) unchangeable, (4) unblessable, and (5) unusable. In this video, Dr. Bradford focuses on the first lie, “I’m unlovable.” Five Lies, Part 1: I’m Unlovable, posted with vodpod Continue reading Five Lies, Part 1: I’m Unlovable

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Review of Mitch Stokes, “A Shot of Faith (to the Head): Be a Confident Believe in an Age of Cranky Atheists” (@ThomasNelson)

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Mitch Stokes, A Shot of Faith to the Head: Be a Confident Believer in an Age of Cranky Atheists (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012). $16.99, 252 pages. Is belief in God irrational? Does science show that God doesn’t exist? Does evil? Over the past decade, New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Victor J. Stenger have answered these questions affirmatively. Their best-selling books have promoted the ideas that Christian faith is based on insufficient evidence; that in light of scientific advances, God is a “failed hypothesis”; and that suffering—when not actively caused by believers—disproves God’s … Continue reading Review of Mitch Stokes, “A Shot of Faith (to the Head): Be a Confident Believe in an Age of Cranky Atheists” (@ThomasNelson)