Recommended Christian Apologetics Books and Resources
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My Favorite Book:
Bruchko by Bruce Olson (A riveting true story with appeal for both Christians and non-Christians)
An excerpt:
| ...I ran straight into some vines, tripped, and fell flat
on my face, scrambled up, and got tangled in the vines again. Then a
searing pain bit into my thigh, and my whole body went limp. I fell. Everything seemed to move slowly - even my huge gulping breaths. I looked down at my thigh. A long shaft was sticking out of it, with a neat little punch-hole where the arrow had gone in. The hole was a bright red from the blood, my blood, oozing out and down my leg. I couldn't take my eyes off the arrow. It seemed unreal. It had to be sticking out from someone else's leg. But it wasn't. Then I looked up, and my heart almost stopped. I was encircled by dark-skinned, naked men, with huge bows drawn taut. Nine little dots of arrowheads pointed right at me. I forgot about my leg. "Don't shoot, don't!" I said in Yuko, pleading also with my eyes. Their eyes, like little black chunks of coal, made no response. Their arms did not relax their bows. "Oh please," I said in Spanish, "I come as a friend. "Friend," I said in Latin. Without taking their eyes off of me, they removed the arrows from their bows. One of the men walked over to me. I cowered. He reached down to my leg and grasped the arrow by the shaft. Putting his foot on my thigh, he yanked out the arrow. I saw little red, dancing stars. I couldn't breathe. I looked down at my leg and saw a bit of my muscle trailing in the blood from where the arrow had been pulled out. Every second the pain seemed to be more than I could stand, and then unbelievably, it got worse... |
And you thought you had it bad in your witnessing attempts!
For the Non-Christian:
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Rare
Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Eternity
in their Hearts
by Don Richardson
Mere
Christianity
For the Christian
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The
Pilgrim's Progress
The
Kingdom of the Cults
Evidence
That Demands a Verdict : Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith
Foxe's
Book of Martyrs
In
His Presence
For Kids
A classic book of adventure, mystery and humor, with deeper meaning for those who are Christian. If you start reading these books to your kids, they won't let you stop reading (and you will probably continue reading after your kids have fallen asleep!). Lewis' style allows you to "see" the story as it unfolds. The intricacies and subtleties are all come together in the last two books of the series.
The children's version of John Bunyan's classic story of the hazards associated with the Christian walk. An easy-to-understand version geared toward the younger readers. Our boys have really enjoyed this version, often listening for hours.
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The
Chronicles of Narnia
Little
Pilgrim's Progress
by Helen L. Taylor
Science and Apologetics
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Beyond
the Cosmos
The
Creator and the Cosmos
The
Genesis Question
The Creation Date Controversy
Don Stoner looks at the age of the earth from a scientific and biblical perspective. He presents much more evidence that is not presented in Creation and Time. The older version of A New Look at an Old Earth is available online |
Peril in Paradise: Theology, Science, and the Age of the Earth
S. Whorton, Ph.D. goes beyond the superficial doctrines
espoused by the young earth "perfect paradise" paradigm to examine underlying assumptions and extra-biblical teachings
of the movement.
The
Genesis Debate
: Three teams of evangelical scholars tackle the
question of how God created the universe by presenting and defending their
respective views in a lively, yet friendly, forum. J. Ligon Duncan III and
David W. Hall defend the view that the Genesis creation days are six,
sequential days, each 24 hours long (the 24-hour view). Hugh Ross and
Gleason L. Archer defend the view that the Genesis creation days are six
sequential ages of time of unspecified but finite duration (the day-age
view). And Lee Irons with Meredith G. Kline defend the view that the
Genesis creation days are presented as normal days, but that the picture
of God's creating in six days and resting on the seventh is figurative
(the Framework view).
A
Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy
by Hugh Ross examines the
biblical creation controversy through an in-depth study of history,
theology, and science through a testable creation model that proposes a
mechanism to settle this raging dispute.
A
New Look at an Old Earth
by
Evolution
Darwin's Black Box discusses the problems associated with macroevolution at the level of biochemistry and molecular biology. Evolution:
A Theory in Crisis A general discussion of some of the problems associated with macroevolution. It is somewhat outdated, but a good introduction to the overall scope. |
Darwin's
Black Box
by Michael Behe
by Michael Denton
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/books.html
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