The Return

Review: Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News Brian Zahnd Waterbrook Press 2017 This author has done some thinking.   I'd recommend this book if for no other reason than to challenge yourself as to what and why you believe what you do.   I'm sure there will plenty of posts in some sectors that will not approve of Zahnd's conclusions.   Others will cheer the direction he has taken.   He's a very persuasive author, but comes off a bit strident at times throughout this book.   I did find most of what he had to say a welcome change of rhetoric.   In fact, I think this is a long overdue corrective to some of the teachings in the Christian religion.      Each chapter can be read alone, but I think a better over view of the author’s mind set would probably come from the order it is presented.   As the title hints, Zahnd presents his version of how God treats sinners whic...

Review: The Bad Habits of Jesus: Showing Us the Way to Live Right in a World Gone Wrong Leonard Sweet Tyndale House Publishers 2016 Leonard Sweet can be counted on to give his readers a good read.   I think so anyway.   May not like what he has to say or what he says, but the book will be very readable.   He can pour on the academic stuff from time to time, but he generally leaves that for others to do.   He has a way of sneaking up on the reader with a story or something that brings his point home.   Sometimes the point is sharp enough to make you uncomfortable with yourself. The Bad Habits of Jesus he admits was written in record time, six weeks (ix), and some of it he gathered from a crowd-sourcing (x) event on his Facebook page. A new-fangled way of getting material for his book.   Yes, I do look at prefaces and acknowledgements.   Even introductions. As you might suspect Jesus’ bad habits are determined bad only but some tha...