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Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power in Your Life, The

A Good Introductory Guide to the Holy Spirit Author: Billy Graham As part of the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program, we were tasked to read Billy Graham’s The Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power In Your Life as part of the September study on the Holy Spirit. I was very excited for this study, since I think Christians often ignore or sideline the Holy Spirit. Most Christians certainly don’t have a good understanding of His role, and despite what we say, we often don’t see Him as being equal with the other two members of the Trinity: God and Jesus. This was [...]

Frances Carden2023-12-22T21:03:07-07:00December 22nd, 2023|Tags: Billy Graham, book review, Christian, Holy Spirit, non-fiction, read, reading|

Pursuit of God, The

A Thought Provoking Devotional Author: A.W. Tozer As part of the C.S. Lewis Institute’s Fellowship program, the month of August was dedicated to pursing God and truly understanding discipleship: what it means, what we have to do, and what God does. One of our assignments was to read a chapter a day from A.W. Tozer’s short devotional, The Pursuit of God. While this tome isn’t as clearly structured as the first Tozer book I read, The Knowledge of the Holy, it still evinces the same zeal, the same mystical emotive call, half focused on theology and half focused on the pure [...]

Frances Carden2023-11-25T11:56:39-07:00November 25th, 2023|Tags: book review, Christian, classic, devotional, read, reading, Tozer|

The Right to Be Christian in a Gay Rights America

A Refreshing Look at All The Arguments Author: Elreta Dodds Modern Christians are routinely questioned about issues relating to sexuality – sexual choices, gender identify, what defines marriage, etc. There are only two answers, and only one of which is acceptable in society. You either accept another person’s chosen lifestyle wholeheartedly, meaning not that you tolerate it, but that you approve it and sanctify it, or you’re a complete bigot – filled with hate, incapable of love, and sticking your judgmental nose in where it doesn’t belong. As a Christian, if you feel that the Bible doesn’t support gay marriage or, [...]

Frances Carden2023-11-18T17:28:08-07:00November 18th, 2023|Tags: book review, Christian, gay rights, non-fiction, reading|