Thanks to all who posted on our last blog post. Your answers were very helpful. They’ve given us a lot to think over.
Three quick things on that score.
1. All of my books are now available on Kindle, excepting “From Eternity to Here.” But that one is supposed to be on Kindle soon.
2. For those of you who live outside the USA, you can order our books from any country at a big discount at www.FromEternitytoHere.org – shipping is standard prices, but with the low costs of the books, it helps make up for it.
3. Someone asked me to list the top 7 most downloaded mp3s that we’ve made freely available on our webpage (www.ptmin.org) thus far. So if you’re an iPod/mp3 kind of person, here they are: (they are all on iTunes also)
#1. Steve Brown interview clip
#2. Message delivered at George Fox Seminary w/ questions from Len Sweet, Dan Kimball, et. al
#3. Chapter 1 of “From Eternity to Here”
#4. Message delivered at a conference following Paul Young (”The Shack”)
#5. Interview with George Barna
#6. A “straight talk” message to the House Church Movement
#7. The hot-boiling phone call I received from a caller the one and only time I played “Talk Radio Show” host (comedy)
[Gear Shift]
BOOK REVIEW – “BUSTED: Exposing Popular Myths about Christianity”
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There are many Christian apologetic books in print today. Some are good. Others are fair to middle cloudy. But some simply “shred” the false claims against the reality of Jesus Christ and leave virtually nothing left except scraps of fragmented paper.
For example:
F.F. Bruce shredded the modern claims against the reliability of the New Testament in his classic book, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
C.S. Lewis in his well-known treatise Mere Christianity shredded the logical (so called) arguments of his day against the Lord Jesus Christ.
N.T. Wright in his Simply Christian shreds many postmodern arguments against the faith.
The new Zondervan book, BUSTED: Exposing Popular Myths about Christianity, fits nicely into the above.
Popular myths like ….
You can’t trust the Bible; it’s been translated too many times.
Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah or God.
Jesus didn’t rise from the dead.
The Trinity was invented by religious people in the 4th century.
Science has proven that miracles don’t happen (so the Bible is a fairytale).
Christianity is anti-semitic
All religions basically teach the same thing (so all paths lead to God), and much more ….
are all addressed and taken to task.
Author Fred Von Kamecke puts these “myths” into the shredder and turns it on high.
What I like about the book is that it’s written at a very popular level. A high school student can read it with interest, “get” the arguments, and be compelled by them. For the more scholarly person, there are recommended books at the end of each chapter which are more academic. If you are familiar with Christian apologetics, you probably won’t find anything in the book that’s new or earth-shattering in the way of insight or information, but it does a nice job at handling all of these questions in a popular, thoughtful, compelling way.
If you know people who have bought into one of the many insipid, ignorant-based arguments against the Christian faith, hand them a copy of BUSTED.
It’s a great dialogue starter.
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All the bloggers who are reviewing this book are …
http://bbhchurchconnection.blogspot.com
http://icrucified.com/icruciblog
http://theologicallyspeaking.com
http://twelve60.blogspot.com
http://blog.buildingchurchleaders.com
http://frankviola.wordpress.com
http://johnharmstrong.com
http://jchrisland.blogspot.com
http://www.biblegeekgonewild.com
http://www.kimmartinezstayingfocused.wordpress.com/
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