Unashamed

Women are not typically noted in Jewish genealogies in the Bible. Yet in the genealogy of Jesus, five women (Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary) are mentioned. While the series A Lineage of Grace covers all five women, the book Unashamed focuses on Rahab, an unlikely inclusion. Rahab was a prostitute in Jericho who provided protection for Jewish spies. She and her family are spared in the battle of Jericho, and Rahab ends up listed in the "Hall of Faith" in Hebrews 11. Francine Rivers' fictionalized portrayal, done in her magnificent style, brings Rahab to life.

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The Prayer of Jabez

Between asking for blessings, increasing your territory, enlisting God's power, and keeping away from evil, Jabez's prayer covers a lot of ground. It is ground that all of us should cover. I would not be surprised if The Prayer of Jabez, reaches the status of a "Christian classic."

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Amazing Grace

Kathleen Norris' thoughtful reflections on familiar Christian words bring rich insight to them which will touch your soul.

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Chesterton's First Wild Doubts Of Doubt

G. K. Chesterton, Foreword by Philip Yancey, Orthodoxy, The Classic Account of a Remarkable Christian Experience, A Shaw Book, Waterbrook Press, 1994, Harold Shaw Publishers, pp. 88, 89.
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Category: Classics, Literature
ISBN: 087788630X
Keywords: Jews, pagan, agnostic, deity, Christianity, Huxley, Herbert Spencer, Bradlaugh, Tom Paine, Christian, Colonel Ingersoll, atheistic, rationalist, reason, Shaw, Waterbrook Press, Harold Shaw Publishers, Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Yancey, Philip Yancey

"I was a pagan at the age of twelve, and a complete agnostic by the age of sixteen; and I cannot understand anyone passing the age of seventeen without having asked himself so a simple a question. I did, indeed, retain a cloudy reverence for cosmic deity and a great historical interest in the Founder of Christianity. But I certainly regarded Him as a man; though perhaps I thought that, even in that point, He had an advantage over some of His modern critics. I read the scientific and skeptical literature of my time--all of it, at least, that I could find written in English and lying about; and I read nothing else; I mean I read nothing else on any other note of philosophy. The penny dreadfuls which I also read were indeed in a healthy and heroic tradition of Christianity; but I did not know this at the time. I never read a line of Christian apologetics. I read as little as I can of them now. It was Huxley and Herbert Spencer and Bradlaugh who brought me back to orthodox theology. They sowed in my mind my first wild doubts of doubt. Our grandmothers were quite right when they said that Tom Paine and the free-thinkers unsettled the mind. They do. They unsettled mine horribly. The rationalist made me question whether reason was of any use whatever; and when I had finished Herbert Spencer I had got as far as doubting (for the first time) whether evolution had occurred at all. As I laid down the last of Colonel Ingersoll's atheistic lectures the dreadful thought broke across my mind, 'Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.' I was in a desperate way."

SoAmazing Review: The more G. K. Chesterton read the works of agnostics, skeptics, atheists, non-Christians and anti-Christians the more their arguments troubled him. His first wild doubts of doubt is covered fully in Orthodoxy.

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