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Book Review in a Minute: Sweet & Bitter Providence

The book of Ruth is one of my favourites in the Bible. Of course, who doesn’t enjoy a good love story and a happy ending? Right? But there is much, much more to this small Old Testament book and this is the premise of John Piper’s book “A Sweet and Bitter Providence.” Sovereignty. Race. Sex. [...]

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Book Review in a Minute: Counterfeit Gods

When I used to  hear the word ‘Idolatry’ my mind almost immediately went to visions of people bowing before and worshipping a statue. Or maybe it’s a golden calf or a tribe dancing around the fire to the beat of a drum. However as I read Tim Keller’s new book, Counterfeit God’s, I learnt that [...]

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Book Review in a Minute: Your Jesus is too Safe

For the last few months, I have been following Jared Wilson’s blog the Gospel-Driven Church and have been immensely blessed by his writings.  Jared’s first book ‘Your Jesus is too safe’ is by far the best book that I have read this year. Let me tell you why… We live in a world of imposters. [...]

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(Not Quite) Book Review in a Minute: Religion Saves

About the Book: Inspired by 1 Corinthians, in which Paul answers a series of questions posed by the people in the Corinthian church, Pastor Mark Driscoll set out to determine the most controversial questions among visitors to the Mars Hill Church website. In the end, 893 questions were asked and 343,203 votes were cast. The [...]

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