Watchman Fellowship recommends the following books on the Da Vinci Code;
Cracking Da Vinci’s Code, by James L. Garlow and Peter Jones
The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code, by Richard Abanes
Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everybody’s Asking, by Darrell L. Bock
Church History in Plain Language, by Bruce Shelley
Isaac Watts (1674-1748) is considered by many to be the father, or revitalizer, of the English hymn. Watts began writing hymns almost by accident. He complained to his father that all they had to sing in church were poor renderings, in verse, of the Psalms. His father suggested he should create something better. The following Sunday Watts presented his hymn “Behold the Glories of the Lamb.” [From ChristianHistory.net]
It is not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks it. So it is not the Christian in the world but the world in the Christian that constitutes the danger.
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Augustine’s Confessions
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Dr. Gordon Isaac taught a course on the life and writings of the great German reformer, Martin Luther at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
The following textbooks were used in the class:
Luther: Man Between God and the Devil, Heiko Oberman
Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings, Timothy Lull, ed.
Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther, J. I. Packer & O. R. Johnston, trans.
Martin Luther’s Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development, Bernhard Lohse
In the beginning was the Legos. The Reverend Stuart Dornfeld built a lego model of his Emanuel Lutheran church out of Legos. More than 12,000 of the plastic blocks and 72 hours of work went into the mini-version of the Brandon, Wisconsin, house of worship.
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I contributed the following article on Aimee Semple McPherson to the American National Biography
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McPherson, Aimee Elizabeth Semple (9 October 1890-27 September 1944), evangelist and founder of The Church of the Foursquare Gospel, was born in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, Methodist farmer, and Mildred “Minnie” Pearce, Salvation Army volunteer.
The companion guide to the video series Christianity and Islam
Belloc, Hillaire. The Crusades: The World’s Debate
Maier, Christoph T. Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century
Runciman, Steve. The First Crusade
Baptists and the Bible – – Recommended by Paige Patterson
At a recent alumni luncheon of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, L. Russ Bush III was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award. Bush presently serves as distinguished professor of philosophy of religion, director of the Center for Faith and Culture, and academic vice president and dean of the faculty emeritus at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.
Seminary President Paige Patterson described Bush as a man known for his intellect and gentleness and cited Bush’s book “Baptists and the Bible” as “one of the 10 most important publications” of the 20th century.
