Top 50 Books

The Top 50 Books That Have Shaped Evangelicals according to Christianity Today. I believe I have read 20 of them, and have heard of about 35 of them. How about you?

50.Revivalism and Social Reform by Timothy L. Smith
49.Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer
48.The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill
47. The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? by F. F. Bruce
46. Out of the Saltshaker and into the World by Rebecca Manley Pippert
45. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark A. Noll
44. The Gospel of the Kingdom by George Eldon Ladd
43. Operation World by Patrick Johnstone
42. The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren
41. Born Again by Charles W. Colson
40. Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson
39. Desiring God by John Piper
38. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin
37. God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew with John and Elizabeth Sherrill
36. Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
35. The Stork Is Dead by Charlie W. Shedd
34. This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
33. The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey with C. C. Carlson
32. The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson with John and Elizabeth Sherrill
31. The Next Christendom by Philip Jenkins
30. Roaring Lambs by Robert Briner
29. Dare to Discipline by James Dobson
28. The Act of Marriage by Tim and Beverly LaHaye
27. Christy by Catherine Marshall
26. Know Why You Believe by Paul E. Little
25. Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
24. The Meaning of Persons by Paul Tournier
23. All We're Meant to Be by Letha Dawson Scanzoni and Nancy A. Hardesty
22. The Genesis Flood by Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb
21. The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Emerson Coleman
20. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
19. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
18. The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
17. What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
16. Basic Christianity by John Stott
15. The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism by F. H. Henry
14. Let Justice Roll Down by John M. Perkins
13. Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
12. Power Evangelism by John Wimber with Kevin Springer
11. Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
10. Evangelism Explosion by D. James Kennedy
9. Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot
8. Managing Your Time by Ted W. Engstrom
7. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ronald J. Sider
6. The Living Bible by Kenneth N. Taylor
5. Knowing God by J. I. Packer
4. The God Who Is There by Francis A. Schaeffer
3. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
2. Understanding Church Growth by Ronald Anderson McGavran
1. Prayer: Conversing With God by Rosalind Rinker

I was surprised to not see Pilgrim's Progress, How Should We Then Live, and The Robe. But maybe their influence was less on evangelicalism and more on Christianity as a whole.

Amber Alert!!!

Where's Amber?

Every day we check her blog, but she is not there.

Did she really move back to Chicago? Did her computer burn in a Chicago fire?

Has she given up blogging? (Say it isn't so!)

(Tell it not in Gath, etc etc etc)

Where are you??

Sun event on lake

The photo was taken near the transition between light and dark (or dark and light,as it were) facing toward the sun, by a non-French speaking non-Sheboyganite. (Zoom is provided so you can see the swimmers on the lake.)
(It is the hope of the photographer that the photo may be simply enjoyed and not be the cause of any raucous or hurtful debate which could otherwise detract from the natural beauty of the sun event on the lake.)

request

Would Anonymous please cite a couple of sources for this allegedly dishonest Sheboygan photographer of his?
Signed,
Suspicious Anonymous
(who also has access post on the blog)

Very hard questions

In church today, Doug entertained us with a few "very hard questions." (The point was it doesn't really matter what the answer is for these questions. But there are some questions where we really need to get the answer right, like Who is Jesus.)

At any rate, a little google search brought me to this amusing site. Here are my personal favorites of the "very hard questions."

• Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
• If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
• Can you cry under water?
• How is it that we put men on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
• Why do you have to "put your two cents in," but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"?
• Why do we choose from just two people for President and 50 for Miss America?
• Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up 10 times every hour?
• Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
• Shouldn't it be, "Some things in moderation"?
• Why are builders afraid to have a thirteenth floor but book publishers aren't afraid to have a Chapter 11?
• When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?
• Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
• Why don't you ever see the headline Psychic Wins Lottery?
• If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
• If women ran the Pentagon, would missiles and submarines be shaped differently?
• Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called "rush hour"?