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The following review was contributed by: Penny Watkins: CLICK HERE to read more of Penny's Reviews.
The Secret Message of Jesus is written in the voice of a searcher, someone who is looking for truth.He speaks as someone who has spent a long time pondering the Scriptures and the Jesus that he finds there.He speaks the words of someone who has had to clear away the brush of doctrine and orthodoxy in order to find a clear view of what Jesus actually said in the New Testament.
Brian McLaren’s thesis is that the Kingdom of God is not some future heavenly realm, inhabited by post-death spiritual beings.He says that the Kingdom of God is closer than we believe, that it is here and now, between and among us.
Living in the Kingdom of God is living as Jesus instructed us to.It’s subversive, countercultural and transformative.Nothing happens overnight, and Kingdom changes—such as the repudiation of slavery—may take hundreds or thousands of years.Kingdom living does, in the end, transform individuals, cultures, nations and the world.
McLaren’s call is to live out the Kingdom values of helping the poor and oppressed, working toward peace and justice, and loving even our enemies.We are called to turn away from the values of the world kingdom and embrace the values of God’s kingdom, and this is far more radical and revolutionary than we understand.
McLaren’s message resonates deeply with those of us who want something more than church, something more than good doctrine.His message is a deep, sounding, thrumming call to follow the Christ, to join in bringing the Kingdom of God into our present reality, where it changes everything.
The Secret Message of Jesus is clearly and compelling written.McLaren’s style is graceful and grace-filled.He doesn’t judge or alienate his readers; he simply points out that they—we—can be better than we are.This book is a reiteration of the Good News; the news that all things are being made new and right.It’s a message of hope; hope that the Kingdom of God will prevail, and hope that we, too, can become transformed people, and can participate in Christ’s simple mission to change the world.
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Departure Message
Click Here To Purchase Departure Message Author: Charles L. Lunsford
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6-19-2008
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Hi Folks: I love music, both popular and classical and so I decided to post some of my favorite musicians on bookpleasures.com. You will find legends of yesteryear and today, classical and popular which have been taken from Youtube. One tip, if you notice when looking at each of the videos on the bottom right hand corner is a menu. If you click this one you will be able to track down more from the same performer. Enjoy the videos and I hope you come back often to read our reviews and listen...
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4-6-2008
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The Case Against ‘Jesus’
To Purchase The Case Against 'Jesus' Click Here Author: Burton H. WolfeISBN: 978-1-934209-55-4For nearly two thousand years, billions of people have believed in Jesus Christ of the New Testament as a historical figure who lived on this earth and performed miracles. But did Jesus really exist or is he an invented character, no more than a rewr
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5-1-2008
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Why The Jews Rejected Jesus
Author: David KlinghofferISBN: 0385510217 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsGiven the sharp differences of opinions pertaining to the interpretations of the Old and New Testaments, there are bound to be strong reactions from some readers of the Jewish and Christian faiths to David Klinghoffer’s Why The Jews Rejected Jesus.After all, as Klinghoffer states, the disputation has been going on for centuries,...
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7-5-2005
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Burton H. Wolfe's Book The Case Against Jesus
Burton H. Wolfe, one of our reviewers, recently wrote an e-book The Case Against 'Jesus' that you can purchase from Wild West Publishing HouseHere is what Burton has to say about the book:In contrast to past works that speculate with hundreds of literary references on the question of whether or not the "Jesus Christ" (Yeshua mashia/Joshua the messiah) of the New Testament actually existed, The Case Against 'Jesus' settles the issue as it would be tried in a court of law, with...
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7-23-2007
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The Jesus Thief by J.K. Lankford
We have to commend J.R. Lankford for having a creative imagination, when she thought of writing a book of the cloning of Jesus Christ!
Who would have thought about the possibility of stealing two threads from The Shroud of Turin, extract blood from it, culture the cells found in the blood, extract unfertilized eggs from a donor, remove the nucleus from the eggs, replace each nucleus with a cultured Shroud cell to produce “fertilized eggs,” grow the eggs in a suitable culture, and...
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1-1-1970
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Keys to the Kingdom: Jesus & the Mystic Kabbalah
Author: Migene González-WipplerPublisher: Llewellyn WorldwideISBN: 0-7387-0593-4 The following review was contributed by: Rev.Marie Davies Can you keep a secret? For centuries, the mystic Kabbalah has been a keeper of secrets second only to the Vatican. In Keys to the Kingdom: Jesus & the Mystic Kabbalah, Migene González-Wippler reveals the secrets of the Tree of Life that the Kabbalah has guarded jealously.
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5-9-2005
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Caesar's Messiah--The Roman Conspiracy To Invent Jesus
Author: Atwill, JosephPublisher: Ulysses PressISBN: 1-56975-457-8 The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews.Jesus never existed. If true, what does that do? It means that the Jewish Messiah is yet to come. I like that. And I really liked Atwill's book, which I read in its first version: "The Roman Origin of Christianity." I also met Mr. Atwill at a Book Expo convention. He is a mild and patient man, who has had the...
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5-10-2005
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Listen To Simcha Jacobovici Co-Author of The Jesus Family Tomb
Kent Gustavson, PhD interviews Simch Jacobovici, Co-Author of The Jesus Family Tomb CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEWClick Here To Purchase The Jesus Family Tomb
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9-30-2008
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