No Longer A Libertine
Puritan Board Senior
I recollect my mom checking out a copy of "Everybody Poops" when I was three and I found it quite patronizing.
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Makes you think Sproul is hiding under your bed at night or something.
The Coup de Grace for me.
Gotta love the cover! Boo!
Here comes the Boogey Man!
Makes you think Sproul is hiding under your bed at night or something.
The Coup de Grace for me.
Gotta love the cover! Boo!
Here comes the Boogey Man!
Makes you think Sproul is hiding under your bed at night or something.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes.
I saw the movie version - National Lampoon's Summer Vacation.
I almost forgot about Brennan Manning. I thought I had repressed the memory of reading this book, The Ragamuffin Gospel.
Manning has been recommended to be by some of my Reformed friends. Is he really that bad?
Late Great Planet Earth by that greatest scholar of all time, Hal Lindsey.
He needs to keep writing - he's got all those alimony checks to write. He's been married - what? 5 times (at last count)?
Every time Lindsey sets pen to paper he sets the serious study of eschatology back ten years!
I almost forgot about Brennan Manning. I thought I had repressed the memory of reading this book, The Ragamuffin Gospel.
I remembered another one - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. My mother made me read it when I was about 15 - apparently my attitude was too negative. While she may have had a point about my attitude, reading that book certainly didn't help. I wasn't a believer at that stage, and wasn't converted until I was 19, but I could already see that the nonsense Peale was peddling wasn't the Gospel, nor did it make any logical sense. Unfortunately the book turned me into more of a cynic than I already was.
What St. Paul Really Said, by N.T. Wright
The last two volumes of Westermann's Genesis commentary
The Call of Grace, by Norman Shepherd
The Covenantal Gospel, by Cornelis van der Waal
A Faith That Is Never Alone, edited by Andrew Sandlin
Women in the Church, by Grenz and Kjesbo
The Federal Vision, by Wilkins and Garner
Rev,
I think I know why you put these in here, but worse than Purpose Driven Lifeor something by Osteen? Given the mass circulation of the Warren, Osteen, Hinn garbage--aren't they far more misleading? I guess what I'm asking is: Are widely circulated Osteen books worse than books by Norman Shepherd that 98 % of people in the world have never and would never pick up? Just curious. Thanks.
Anybody ever hear of C.S. Lovett?
Hew boy....those were stinkers.
I am sure that, in terms of impact, you are quite right. I was only referring to books I had actually read. I haven't read (and will not read!) the ones you have mentioned. As Martin Snyder said, I don't even have enough time to read all the good books.
Chosen but Free has to be up there somewhere.
Also ANY "book" by Osteen.
I recollect my mom checking out a copy of "Everybody Poops" when I was three and I found it quite patronizing.
I remembered another one - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. My mother made me read it when I was about 15 - apparently my attitude was too negative. While she may have had a point about my attitude, reading that book certainly didn't help. I wasn't a believer at that stage, and wasn't converted until I was 19, but I could already see that the nonsense Peale was peddling wasn't the Gospel, nor did it make any logical sense. Unfortunately the book turned me into more of a cynic than I already was.
I remembered another one - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. My mother made me read it when I was about 15 - apparently my attitude was too negative. While she may have had a point about my attitude, reading that book certainly didn't help. I wasn't a believer at that stage, and wasn't converted until I was 19, but I could already see that the nonsense Peale was peddling wasn't the Gospel, nor did it make any logical sense. Unfortunately the book turned me into more of a cynic than I already was.
I think Peale's book blazed a trail in the Christian Self Help Genre.
*** Which reminds me of a scene from blazing saddles **** ( can of beans, not worms )
New Age Bible Versions, by Gail Riplinger. Even my KJV-only friends were embarrassed at this one. Her arguments are silly at best, and shamefully dishonest at worst. Why, one wonders, would anyone seriously read a book on textual issues written by someone with a home economics degree, and who knows neither of the Biblical languages? ( I had to for a class).
I totally forgot this book! Great example! I went through the first fifty pages, and documented all the factual errors in her quotations of the modern versions. Constantly, she misrepresented the facts, by saying that "the modern versions say x," when only one of them did, and the rest agreed with the KJV! She made the differences far greater than they actually are. Furthermore, she has no hermeneutical training, and so she misrepresents other differences as well. I had a 13 page document when I was done, ripping her book to shreds. James White has quite adequately answered her as well.
Anybody ever hear of C.S. Lovett?
Hew boy....those were stinkers.
Yeah, Dealing with the Devil. That was my first clue that all is not well with Christian bookstores. In the mid-70's mind you. I don't think I read more than 20 or 30 pages before I tore it up. Yeah, I know, that many???
Late Great Planet Earth by that greatest scholar of all time, Hal Lindsey.
He needs to keep writing - he's got all those alimony checks to write. He's been married - what? 5 times (at last count)?
Every time Lindsey sets pen to paper he sets the serious study of eschatology back ten years!
I believe, if he is still married, he is currently living with his third wife. He is trice an adulterer and has no connection to a church.
Late Great Planet Earth by that greatest scholar of all time, Hal Lindsey.
He needs to keep writing - he's got all those alimony checks to write. He's been married - what? 5 times (at last count)?
Every time Lindsey sets pen to paper he sets the serious study of eschatology back ten years!
I believe, if he is still married, he is currently living with his third wife. He is trice an adulterer and has no connection to a church.
He needs to keep writing - he's got all those alimony checks to write. He's been married - what? 5 times (at last count)?
Every time Lindsey sets pen to paper he sets the serious study of eschatology back ten years!
I believe, if he is still married, he is currently living with his third wife. He is trice an adulterer and has no connection to a church.
???
Is it three? I came across part of his bio on the internet. Is it inaccurate?
Jan - Second wife, worked together in Campus Crusade (mother of his three grown children).
Kim - Third wife (on back cover of Planet Earth - 2000; sister of author Johanna Michaelsen)
JoLyn, Fourth wife????, a member of Tetelestai and in a Bible class taught by Lindsey when she was evidently "discovered" by Hal.
I believe, if he is still married, he is currently living with his third wife. He is trice an adulterer and has no connection to a church.
???
Is it three? I came across part of his bio on the internet. Is it inaccurate?
Jan - Second wife, worked together in Campus Crusade (mother of his three grown children).
Kim - Third wife (on back cover of Planet Earth - 2000; sister of author Johanna Michaelsen)
JoLyn, Fourth wife????, a member of Tetelestai and in a Bible class taught by Lindsey when she was evidently "discovered" by Hal.
Really? I was not aware that he was married a fourth time. So much for church discipline.
???
Is it three? I came across part of his bio on the internet. Is it inaccurate?
Jan - Second wife, worked together in Campus Crusade (mother of his three grown children).
Kim - Third wife (on back cover of Planet Earth - 2000; sister of author Johanna Michaelsen)
JoLyn, Fourth wife????, a member of Tetelestai and in a Bible class taught by Lindsey when she was evidently "discovered" by Hal.
Really? I was not aware that he was married a fourth time. So much for church discipline.
You only need to be a "one woman" man when you are an elder. Hal is a celebrity. And, by the way, I don't KNOW that he is married 4 times, merely that some bio information on the Internet mentions his fourth wife???
I agree with Davidius, that the Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee could be the worse book ever written.
One that is worse, is ANYTHING by Andrew Murray.
Anybody ever hear of C.S. Lovett?
Hew boy....those were stinkers.
Yeah, Dealing with the Devil. That was my first clue that all is not well with Christian bookstores. In the mid-70's mind you. I don't think I read more than 20 or 30 pages before I tore it up. Yeah, I know, that many???
Remember His book... Help Lord, The Devil wants me fat!
Dealing with the Devil and that one were big when I was in the Navy many moons ago.