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October 14, 2012 by kevinstilley

Hypocrisy – select quotes

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which one among you ain’t posing and playacting?
~ Old Grimes, a character in an episode of Perry Mason

If there is a wide gulf between your faith and feelings right now because of the hurt and pain you are feeling, that’s not hypocrisy—that’s honesty.
~ Joey O’Connor, in Heaven’s Not a Crying Place: Teaching Your Child About Funerals, Death, and the Life Beyond

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy desires to seem good rather than to be so; honesty desires to be good rather than seem so.
~ Arthur Warwick

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainy with odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I play the devil.
~ William Shakespeare, in King Richard III

Filed Under: Blog, Ethics / Praxis, Quotes Tagged With: Apologetics, Christian Living, Evangelism, Hypocrisy, Testimony, Witness

February 8, 2011 by kevinstilley

Looking for a good book?

Looking for a good book? Below are the “Additional Reading” suggestions in the discussion guide which accompanies “The Reason For God: Conversations on Faith and Life” small group curriculum by Timothy Keller (which is currently my favorite small group curriculum to recommend). I am familiar with most of the books on this list, and can give a hearty second recommendation to them. And, I am very anxious to get my hands on the ones on the list with which I am not familiar, based on my great appreciation for those with which I am familiar.

Discussion #1 – “Isn’t the Bible a Myth? Hasn’t Science Disproved Christianity?”

  • Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?, by Denis Alexander
  • Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, by Richard Bauckham
  • The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, by Craig Blomberg
  • The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?, by F.F. Bruce
  • Science and Faith: Friends or Foes?, by C. John Collins
  • Nothing But the Truth, by Brian Edwards
  • Darwin on Trial, by Phillip e. Johnson
  • Redeeming Science, by Vern Poythress

Discussion #2 – “How can you say there is only one way to God? What about other religions?”

  • The Dissent of the Governed, by Stephen L. Carter
  • Answering Islam, by Norman Geisler and Abdul Saleeb
  • The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis
  • Death of a Guru, by Rabindranath R. Maharaj
  • Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?, by Gerald R. McDermott
  • The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, by Lesslie Newbigin
  • The Supremacy of Christ in a Post-Modern World, by John Piper
  • The Universe next Door, by James Sire
  • Christianity at the Religious Roundtable, by Timothy Tennent

Discussion #3 – “What gives you the right to tell me how to live my life? Why are there so many rules?

  • Angry Conversations With God, by Susan E. Isaacs
  • Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis
  • Hope Has Its Reasons, by Rebecca Pippert
  • Mere Morality, by Lewis B. Smedes
  • Real Sex, by Lauren Winner

Discussion #4 – “Why does God allow suffering? Why is there so much evil in the world?”

  • Where is God When Things Go Wrong, by John Blanchard
  • How Long, O Lord? By D.A. Carson
  • Making Sense Out of Suffering, by Peter Kreeft
  • The Problem of Pain, by C.S. Lewis
  • A Step Further, by Joni Eareckson Tada
  • Lament for a Son, by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Discussion #5 – “Why is the church responsible for so much injustice? Why are Christians such hypocrites?”

  • The Transforming Vision, by Brian Walsh and J.R. Middleton
  • Let Justice Roll Down, by John Perkins
  • Church History in Plain Language, by Bruce L. Shelley
  • Creation Regained, by Albert Wolters
  • Until Justice and Peace Embrace, by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Discussion #6 – “How can God be full of love and wrath at the same time? How can God send good people to Hell?”

  • The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, by D.A. Carson
  • Original Sin: A Cultural History, by Alan Jacobs
  • The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
  • Exclusion and Embrace, by Miroslav Volf
  • The God I Don’t Understand, by Christopher Wright

Are you familiar with any of these books? Share your thoughts on them in the comments below.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Books, Evangelism, Philosophy Tagged With: Hypocrisy, Pluralism, religion, Science, suffering, World Religions

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