Jesus Among Other Gods

Ravi Zacharias supplies facts and arguments to demonstrate that the world's religions do not all point to God and are, at their core, exclusive. It is illuminating!

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Making All Things New

Henri Nouwen wrote more than forty books. All of his books that I have read, including this one, are characterized by Nouwen's gentle spirit and earnest wish to plainly present spiritual truths. He has succeeded.

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A Grief Observed

This book consists of the very personal notes C. S. Lewis wrote after the death of his wife. The notes, not initially intended for publication, were published in the hopes they may help others who are grieving.

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The Smartest Person Who Ever Lived

Dallas Willard The Divine Conspiracy, Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God, Harper Collins Publishers, Inc. p. 94.
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Category: Christian Living, Spiritual Life
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Keywords: commitment, Jesus, truth, trust, Lord, smart, scientist, magician, craftsman, artist, ruler, Harper Collins Publishers, Willard, Dallas Willard

"Our commitment to Jesus can stand on no other foundation than a recognition that he is the one who knows the truth about our lives and our universe. It is not possible to trust Jesus, or anyone else, in matters where we do not believe him to be competent. We cannot pray for his help and rely on his collaboration in dealing with real-life matters we suspect might defeat his knowledge or abilities.

And can we seriously imagine that Jesus could be Lord if he were not smart? If he were divine, would he be dumb? Or uninformed? Once you stop to think about it, how could he be what we take him to be in all other aspects and not be the best-informed and most intelligent person of all, the smartest person who ever lived?

That is exactly how his earliest apprentices in kingdom living thought of him. He was not regarded as, perhaps, a magician, who only knew 'the right words' to get results without understanding or who could effectively manipulate appearances. Rather, he was accepted as the ultimate scientist, craftsman, and artist.

The biblical and continuing vision of Jesus was of one who made all of created reality and kept it working, literally 'holding it together' (Col. 1:17). And today we think people are smart who make light bulbs and computer chips and rockets out of 'stuff' already provided! He made 'the stuff!'

Small wonder, then, that the first Christians thought he held within himself 'all of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge' (Col. 2:3). This confidence in his intellectual greatness is the basis of the radicalism of Christ-following in relation to the human order. It sees Jesus now living beyond death as 'the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, the ruler of the kings of the earth, . . . the first and the last, the living one,' the one who can say 'I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more, the master of death and the world of the dead' (Rev 1:5, 18)."

SoAmazing Review: Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy, Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God provides us with a full-course theological dinner. Plenty to chew on!

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