The World-Tilting Gospel Giveaway

As promised, I’m going to give a copy of The World-Tilting Gospel by Dan Phillips to one providentially blessed reader.

The good news is that this giveaway is open to readers around the world. Yes, you are eligible to enter the draw as long as you live in any of the countries on this list from The Book Depository. 

To enter, fill in your name and email address on the form found when you click to read more. One entry per person, please.

The giveaway closes 12pm PDT on Thursday, April 26, 2012. I’ll announce the results of the draw on Friday, April 27, 2012.

If you tweet, retweet, or link to this it’d make me really happy. 

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Thankful Thursday

My thanksgiving list for this week:

• I’m thankful for my two bouquets of spring tulips. 
• I’m thankful for that I’ve had some very productive days this week.
• I’m thankful that it’s warm enough that I can open the windows to let a little fresh air in. 
• I’m thankful for music.
• I’m thankful for my family, both near and far.
• I’m thankful for the indwelling and interceding Spirit.

What about you? What are you thankful for?

Book Review: The World-Tilting Gospel

Embracing a Biblical Worldview & Hanging on Tight by Dan Phillips.

If I were to sum up the message of The World-Tilting Gospel in one sentence, I’d say it explains what it REALLY means to be a Christian. That this task takes 300 pages is a measure, I suppose, of how wrong we’ve got it—and by we’ve, I’m referring to present-day evangelicals.

Too often, says Phillips, modern evangelicals don’t have a biblical worldview. We can’t give a proper explanation of what the gospel is and why it’s needed, and it’s bad teaching that stands in the way.

So what’s the solution?

The greatest need of the church today is a strategic, full-orbed, robust, biblical grasp of the Gospel fo Jesus Christ and its transformative implications. We don’t need more glitz or glamour, better marketing or programs, snazzier decor or entertainment. We do need a whole-Bible grasp of the Gospel. 

That’s what The World-Tilting Gospel gives us: the whole-Bible Gospel in an energetic, easy-to-understand, earnest-but-never-preachy style. 

There’s nothing more important or profound than what this book unfolds for us. The first part is about us and our big problem. As it turns out, our big problem is us. When it comes to our spiritual condition, we are dead. In other words, we “don’t and can’t help ourselves.” Outside help is our only hope.

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