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  • CAN WE ROCK THE GOSPEL? by John Blanchard & Dan Lucarini

    Debates about worship are nothing new to the church. While it may seem like we are the first ones to wrestle with songs and hymns and decorum on Sundays, that is far from the case. For example, in the 8th Century, an argument broke out in the Greek Orthodox Church known as the “Iconoclast Controversy.” […]

  • JESUS CALLING by Sarah Young

    The term “gnostic” is an unfamiliar one today. Historically, it referred to a group of Christians who believed they had special knowledge. “Gnostic” comes from the Greek word gnosis, meaning knowledge,1 and the Gnostics believed they had that in a special form. They thought that God had spoken to them in dreams, visions, and revelations apart […]

  • THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE by James Montgomery Boice & Philip Ryken

    There are few topics in Christian history that have caused as much controversy as that of Calvinsim. Augustine and Pelagius, Martin Luther and Erasmus, John Calvin and Jacob Arminius, George Whitfield and John Wesley, R. L. Dabney and D. L. Moody have all debated Calvinism passionately.1 They have also set the stage for the debates going […]

  • CRAZY LOVE by Francis Chan

    In the 1800s, a movement started in the church which said that the goal of Christianity is to change society.1  While most Christians would say that is a good goal, they would also say that it cannot be done unless people change first.  This movement, however, said that people cannot change until society changes.  In […]

  • PYSCHOBABBLE by Richard Ganz

    The word “psychology” means “study of the soul” in Greek.1  It comes from two Greek words, psyche meaning “soul” and ology meaning “study of.”  Psychology is the examination of the non-material or unseen part of man.  It is the study of man’s soul. Ever since the beginning of time, men have been employed in some […]

  • THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE by Rick Warren

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  • HELL ON TRIAL by Robert A. Peterson

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  • THE SHACK by William P. Young

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  • TODAY’S GOSPEL by Walter J. Chandry

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  • BLUE LIKE JAZZ by Donald Miller

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  • THE CROSS AND SALVATION by Bruce Demarest

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  • THE RAGAMUFFIN GOSPEL by Brennan Manning

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