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 Crazy Love (Francis Chan) Readability 10 Spiritual challenge 9 Doctrinal Agreeability 8 When I come across a contemporary Christian book that "makes it" in sales, I usually don't set my expectations too high. But this one met and surpassed expectations.   Several chapters are worth the price of the book on their own.   Chan challenges us repeatedly to be Christ-like.   Sad to say, that is radical in today's pop-Christian culture. Brief Summary: I especially enjoyed chapters 8-9.   After the first chapter, there is not much of a sequence/development of thought from one chapter to the next, so you can jump in just about anywhere and feel the biting conviction of living the life of Christ in this age.   Also, I did not take the time to view the videos encouraged at each stop.   Sorry, that is a great idea, but I don't always have Internet access when reading. Here is a brief summary of each: 1-Stop Praying Chan encourages us to wor...

We pass out Gospel literature on a weekly basis in our neighborhood to the rush-hour commuters...  Today we were surprised by some of Krishna's followers - Lydia tired of them fairly quickly. "Lydia, would you rather they be here, or pass out tracts in quiet?" "Quiet." Lydia can be a bit particular about work conditions in ministry  =)

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert An English Professor's Journey into a Christian Faith Rosaria Champagne Butterfield View her testimony on Youtube by clicking here. Readability - 9 Challengeability - 8 Agreeablity - 7 - You will disagree with some of the Reformed doctrine which comes across loudly in places - like the joy of baptizing one of the infants in their church planting ministry.   This is a wonderful little biography.   The first pages of the book Rosaria is an outspoken feminist, lesbian activist and works as a tenured research professor at Syracuse University .   In the final pages of the book she is a Classical Christian Home Schooling mom of three... In between there is a plethora of life lessons for ministering to the homosexual community, the higher ed. community, the postmodern mind, as well as the home school community and adoption/foster families. The first couple chapters walk through Rosaria's conversion from a lesb...