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File Name: Fleming, Don - Making Sense Droid MySword Version
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File Submitted: 30 Jun 2012
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Author: Don Fleming

In a world where everything seems to be constantly changing, Christians sometimes feel uneasy. They hold beliefs that go back thousands of years, but they wonder how to apply those beliefs in today's world.

This book takes a lively look at a range of issues where Christian faith helps people make sense of life. Whether the topic is family, politics, television, church, technology, mission, discipleship, community affairs or social values, this book will have something to say on the matter - and on other things as well.

Over the years the author has contributed articles to journals and periodicals around the world, and this book is a collection of fifty of those articles. In focusing on matters of topical interest, the collection supplements, but does not duplicate, material that appears in the author's biblical reference works.

Used by permission from Bridgeway Publications. http://bridgeway.org.au/titles.php

Don Fleming 1999
ISBN 0 947342 18 4 All Rights Reserved
Bridgeway Publications
GPO Box 2547
Brisbane 4001
Australia
Printed in Australia by McPherson's Printing Group

Contents

Preface

1 The how-to-do-it syndrome
2 Respect and respectability
3 Jesus’ teaching in the modern world
4 Making the right choices
5 Forced to be friendly
6 ‘Let’s get away from it all’
7 Seeing is believing – or is it?
8 For this I toil
9 A suffering church
10 It’s all topsy-turvy
11 Tuned in and turned off
12 An age without standards
13 Conditioning the masses
14 What sort of God?
15 Family, faith and risks
16 Turn that noise down!
17 Modernity
18 How should we believe?
19 Grasshoppers and eagles
20 Principles and practices
21 Separate, but involved
22 When are we going to wake up?
23 Free to serve
24 Reaching neighbourhood families
25 More than politics
26 Christians and democratic freedom
27 How much should we give to God?
28 Growth means change
29 Who are the nominal Christians?
30 Always positive
31 Communication, communion and ‘the box’
32 A look at missionaries
33 Is this God’s blessing?
34 Surveys, statistics and social science
35 Thinking about writing
36 Writing that will be read
37 Dialogue and fisticuffs
38 Truly, this was a righteous man
39 Spiritual gifts in the church
40 Keeping your word
41 Israel’s mission to the world
42 Social worker or Bible teacher
43 Should church be entertaining?
44 Perception
45 Facing the test
46 Today’s hypocrisy
47 Home-grown leadership
48 Greed and superstition
49 What’s new?
50 The final triumph

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