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REVIEW OF SPRING 2006 SCP JOURNAL AND SCP NEWSLETTER
2006-12-02 16:10:08
REVIEW OF SPRING 2006 SCP JOURNAL AND SCP NEWSLETTERBy Forrest W. Schultz During the past year or so I have been reading many news items about the persecution of Christians in India. It was therefore interesting to read the SCP Staff Report about ?India?s Spiritual Background? which presents the impressions the staff members received from their recent visit to India. There were two items I found especially striking. One was the abundance of miracles the Indian Christians are experiencing, a situation they regard as normal, not extra-ordinary. The other was the concern about the false teachings emanating from various ?Christian? teachers on American ?Christian? television. This latter topic is dealt with extensively in an article entitled ?God TV? by Alan Morrison in the SCP Journal , which focuses on the three false teachings in the ?Prosperity? Gospel ? that God wants all Christians to be wealthy, that this wealth can be obtained through ?word power? (The Name...
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Is Healing Possible For Childhood Sexual Abuse Victims ?
2006-12-02 16:10:08
Is Healing Possible For Child hood Sexual Abuse Victims ?By Forrest W. SchultzA review of Mary E. DeMuth, Wishing On Dandelions (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2006) ISBN 1-57683-953-2 $12.99 339 pages The sexual abuse of children is one of the most heinous, most widespread, most embarrassing, and most devastating of all sins being perpetrated in modern times. Mary DeMuth is to be commended for her efforts to deal realistically with this horrific subject in her finely crafted Maranatha novels. Her first novel, Watching The Tree Limbs, tells the story of the abuse suffered by Maranatha when she was nine years old. Although the rapist was caught and punished and the abuse has ended, the emotional scars remain to plague her. The story in the second Maranatha novel, the one under review here, takes place when Natha is 17 years old and in desperate need of healing from these four scars: continual reliving of the horrible events in her memory,...
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT OF FINDING GOD'S WILL
2006-12-02 16:10:08
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT OF FINDING GOD?S WILLBy Forrest W. SchultzA review of Jeffrey Gante, Simplified Exclamations About God ?s Will , (Mustang, OK: Tate Publishing Co., 2005) ISBN 1-9332909-3-5 $9.95 70 pp Before getting into the content of the book, I would like to say that it has one of the most beautiful covers I have ever seen ? front and back. As to the title, I am puzzled because it seems like the author really meant to say ?Explanations? rather than ?Exclamations?. And, this book is one of the best I have ever seen in providing an introduction to the subject of the thorny topic of finding God?s Will. But it must be seen as such, and therefore the reader should not expect to find answers to the complex questions which have been raised down thru history such as the validity of various methods sometimes used to try to find God?s Will. You will not find here any discussion of ?putting out a fleece?, ?open and closed doors?, ?The Lucky Dip I...
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Church Fires Here and In Pakistan
2006-12-02 16:10:08
MIND AND MEDIA PRESIDENT STACY L. HARP SPEAKS OUT ON CHURCH FIRESChurch Blaze In Pakistan by Stacy L. HarpChurch burnings aren't just happening here in America, they are also happening in Pakistan. The good news is that there were no casualties.HYDERABAD, Pakistan, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Hundreds of angry Muslims set a church on fire in southern Pakistan on Sunday during a protest over the burning of pages from the Muslim holy book the Koran, but no casualties were reported, police said.Yes, it says Muslims. Those involved in the "religion of peace" the media likes to tell us all of the time.They said that around 400 people also attacked and damaged a school run by a local convent in the city of Sukkur in the southern Sindh province, some 480 km (300 miles) north of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city."Some pages of the Koran were burnt by a man named Arif, who had converted to Islam from Christianity a few years back," local police chief Akbar Arain told Reuters, adding the police had a...
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THE EXEMPLARY CRAFTSMANSHIP OF NOVELIST DEE HENDERSON
2006-12-02 16:10:08
THE EXEMPLARY LITERARY CRAFSTMANSHIPOF NOVELIST DEE HENDERSONby Forrest Wayne SchultzA review of Dee Henderson, The Witness, (Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2006). ISBN 1-4143-0812-4. 378 pages. $13.99The WitnessHistorical Context:The Amazing Trend Toward Literary Quality in Christian Fiction Perhaps the clearest, most salutary, and most surprising of all the trends in American conservative Protestantism during the past forty years has been the gradually increasing concern for literary quality until finally, in our day, Christian readers are now looking for it and Christian writers are now producing it. About a decade ago the level of this literary quality had risen sufficiently that the American Library Association took note and began including a section on ?Christian Fiction? in its Library Journal, which began recommending the purchase of some of these books by the nation?s public libraries. And now some of these...
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Review of Fall 2005 SCP Newsletter and SCP Journal
2006-12-02 16:10:08
A Review of the Fall 2005 SCP News letter and SCP Journal By Forrest W. Schultz The Newsletter is devoted to articles about reflections on New Orleans. The articles are good but no different than what can be found in other Christian magazines. At one point the author refers to ?New Orleans, famous for its Voodoo, nature religions, and occult practices??. What this newsletter should have done is devoted itself to a discussion of the New Orleans voodoo, occult, and Mardi Gras because that kind of subject is what a spiritual counterfeits magazine is supposed to specialize in. The Journal, however, does stick to the purpose in the fine articles about the cultic nature of the Roman Catholic Opus Dei organization, the best I have ever read on the subject (pp. 24 ? 49), the fundamental nature of Satan?s Great Lie (pp. 4 ? 11) which underlies all the various cults and false philosophies, the Historical Analysis of the Impact of Secret Orders and Mystery Religions from the 19th c...
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An Epistemology Position Paper On The Controversy Regarding
2006-12-02 16:10:08
AN EPISTEMOLOGY POSITION PAPER:A RESOLUTION OF THE CONTROVERSY REGARDING THE THOUGHT OF VAN TILAS IT PERTAINS TO THE CLARK CASEAND THE SHEPHERD CASEBy Forrest W. SchultzIntroduction and Scope The Clark vs. Van Til controversy is a complex one not only because of the nature of the epistemological issues it raises but also because of the related controversy of defining the exact position of each of these theologians and the related historical controversy concerning the events in the ?Clark Case? which occurred in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and the still later events which occurred in the handling of the ?Shepherd Case? by the Westminster Theological Seminary. Since I do not consider myself sufficiently knowledgeable in the matters of the exact positions of Clark and Van Til here and of the historical events noted, I shall not deal with those matters here ? I shall leave the resolution of those matters to the Van Til scholars, the Clark scholars, and th...
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INTERESTING THINGS IN NATURE
2006-12-02 16:10:08
INTERESTING THINGS IN NATUREBy Forrest W. SchultzA Review OfSamuel J. Alibrando, Nature Never Stops Talking: The Wonderful Ingenuity Of Nature, (Reedley, CA: Tsaba House, 2005) $15.99 ISBN-13: 978-0-97525486-4-9 I enjoy reading well-written accounts of interesting things in nature. The book under review here discusses interesting natural phenomena which are also very complex ? or maybe I should say he brings the complexity to our attention. His purpose is not only to have the reader stand in awe at these phenomena, but also to show that their complexity refutes evolutionary theory. Since creation is the only alternative to evolution it is tempting to say that therefore the existence of God is thereby proven, but the author does not say so, which is wise, because God cannot be proven, because only on the basis of presupposing God can we be certain of knowing or proving anything at all, s...
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CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST FIGHTS PEDOPHILE WEBSITE
2006-12-02 16:10:08
CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST FIGHTS PEDOPHILE WEBSITEGoogle hosts 'boy love' siteFamily counselor presses Web giant to dump itPosted: April 11, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern© 2006 WorldNetDaily.comA marriage and family therapist intern is trying to convince Google to drop a website from its popular, free blog host that promotes "boy love," sexual relationships between men and adolescents.Stacy L. Harp of Orange, Calif., told WorldNetDaily one of the readers of her weblog pointed out the site, called "Paiderastia: The Boy Love Revival."At the top of its homepage, the site explains it's all about "erotic/mentor/spiritual love between adolescents and adults."Harp said, however, that not long after she exposed it yesterday morning, the "Paiderastia" site removed its most recent posts, including one dated April 9.Also removed, according to Harp, was a podcast ? a file with a radio-style report ? that mocked the FBI. It was created through the podcast provider Liberated Syndication.The site now begins w...
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A Manifesto For Authentic Christian Manhood And A Polemic Against Pseudo-Ch
2005-10-10 21:46:00
A Mani festo For Authentic Chris t ian Manhood And A Polemic Against Pseudo-Christian EffeminacyA ReviewBy Forrest W. SchultzPaul Coughlin, No More Christian Nice Guy: When Being Nice -- Instead of Good – Hurts Men, Women, and Children (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2005) The book under review here carefully distinguishes authentic masculinity from two different distortions: (1). a nasty, malicious perversion of masculinity and (2). a wimpish, effeminate abdication of masculinity. The author focuses his polemic against the latter distortion because this is the one which is most prevalent in contemporary American conservative Protestantism, which is the book’s intended readership. It is to this pseudo-christian effeminacy that the author refers by his term “Christian Nice Guy�. The book’s topic is a timely one because the nice-guy syndrome has proliferated to such an extent and to such a deg...
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Read The 103rd Psalm And Look At Some Delightful Paintings
2005-10-06 22:37:00
Read The 103rd Psalm And Look At Some Delightful Pain ting sA Review By Forrest W. SchultzJohannah Bluedorn, Bless The Lord: The 103rd Psalm, (Muscatine, Iowa: Trivium Pursuit, 2005) ISBN 1-933228-02-4 Each page of this book consists of a verse from the 103rd Psalm (in the King James Version) accompanied by the delightful paintings of Johannah Bluedorn. The combination of the beautiful King James English with her beautiful art makes this book an ideal gift and an ideal book to grace a coffee table. There is a sentence on the copyright page stating that the book is the “private property� of Johannah Bluedorn. The publisher, Trivium Pursuit, is the name of the organization established by her parents, Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn, to promote the usage of Classical Education methodology in Christian Homeschooling. I think it would have been a good idea to state this fact after the sentence. I learned it by going to the website address provided, www.triviumpursuit.com, wh...
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Mind and Media: Book Reviews By Bloggers
2005-08-22 23:56:00
Mind and Media : Book Reviews By Blogger sby Forrest W. SchultzOK, guys the book I just reviewed and posted here a few minutes ago I did on behalf of Mind and Media, run by a really fine Christian Lady, Stacy L. Harp, which is also a really great name. She sends you the book, you review it and post it on your blog. For more info, please read what is said below, which comes from the Mind and Media Info Page.Mind & Media is leading the wayin affordable and effectivemarketing for publishers, authorsand artists by tapping into thepotential of Bloggers: people thatlove to read, write and review.Please contact us to receive afree quote for your promotionalneeds. Mention this ad andreceive a 5% discount onservices.Blogging for books.It works.“Mind & Media is an affordable way tocreate internet buzz for upcomingbooks.� - Aaron Carriere, Baker Publishing Group“We’ve been very pleased with theresults of our partnership with Mind &Media.� - Randy Jahns, Senior Vice President ofS...
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An Autobiographical Account of the Persecution of Sudanese Christians
2005-08-22 23:48:00
An Auto biographical Account of the Persecution of Sudan ese Christian sWilliam O. Levi, The Bible or The Axe (Enumclaw, WA: Winepress Publishing Co., 2004). ISBN 1-57921-732-X $19.95 335 ppReviewed by: Forrest W. Schultz Of all the accounts I have read of the persecution of Christians in the Sudan, the newly published book The Bible or the Axe is the best because it is a first-hand account written by a Sudanese Christian based on his own personal experiences. It affords the most recent example of the all-important principle that the best way to teach something is by means of a story about a person who has experienced it. For anyone who is serious about wanting to know what is happening now in the Sudan and the events which led up to it, this book is “must� reading. The story it tells is very moving and very well written, and holds the readers attention until almost the end. Unfortunately, the ending is poorly written because it depart...

Eminent Domain Is Ungodly
2005-07-26 23:06:00
BIZNETDAILY COMMENTARYWhen a divine right goes morally wrongPosted: July 20, 20051:00 a.m. EasternIan Hodge is a regular columnist for Business Reform Magazine, the leading Christian business magazine with over 100,000 readers. Each issue of Business Reform features practical advice on operating successfully in business while glorifying God .By Ian Hodge© 2005 Business ReformJust when you think the economy is bad enough, forcing people out of work, a new danger emerges forcing people not only from their jobs, but in some cases from their houses as well.It has become an accepted belief around the world that the government--local, state and federal--can do whatever it likes. Unfortunately, it is not just a belief, but it happens in practice as well.As a result people have been served condemnation notices on their properties in order that the properties might become available to other businesses in the community. Under the guise of better planning, people have had to give up the right ...
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A Tribute To Dr. Thomas Sowell
2005-06-24 19:34:00
A Tribu te To Dr. Thomas SowellA Review of his Black Rednecks and White Liberals (San Francisco: Encounter, 2005)By Forrest W. Schultz It is long overdue that I finally commit to print the high esteem I have for the thought of Dr. Thomas Sowell . His greatness lies in his ability to find the answers to tough social problems by an unflinching examination of the data, both contemporary and historical. Unfortunately, there has been a great unwillingness to accept his conclusions because they contradict the widely held notions of our times. And they usually end up confirming what common sense and our ancestors had told us. For about the last twenty years or so Sowell has been doing in education, sociology, and economics what William Glasser did in psychology and psychotherapy 40 years ago with his Reality Therapy. From clinical studies Glasser showed that the key to overcoming psychological maladies was the patient taking responsibility for his actions and doing what is ...
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Stacy L. Harp & Her Mind and Media Book Reviews
2005-06-14 20:10:00
Stacy L. HarpPresidentMind & Media PO Box 485Orange CA 92856714-244-6890 http://www.writingright.typepad.comCheck this out if you are a blogger who would like to do book reviews of recently published christian books.Forrest
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