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War on the Saints is Jessie Penn-Lewis's masterwork, wherein she
outlines the occurrences of Satan within the Christian world, and
the eternal battle between good and evil. The book aims to prepare
and assist Christians who are caught unguarded against the
onslaught of evil and deception which has ensued for thousands of
years. In so doing, the reader will - assuming they heed the advice
upon these pages - be better equipped versus the various obstacles,
trickery and evils that Satan and his ilk will hurl in the path of
the righteous. Penn-Lewis firmly believed that the devil was a
master manipulator, with a keen knowledge of when and who to target
in his schemes. Several of the chapters within this book detail the
different techniques employed by Satan, and how to guard against
them. Quotations of Scripture abound, boosting the author's
authority and lending much credence to her arguments.
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Since World War II, historians have analysed a phenomenon of "white
flight" plaguing the urban areas of the northern United States. One
of the most interesting cases of "white flight" occurred in the
Chicago neighborhoods of Englewood and Roseland, where seven entire
church congregations from one denomination, the Christian Reformed
Church, left the city in the 1960s and 1970s and relocated their
churches to nearby suburbs. In Shades of White Flight, sociologist
Mark T. Mulder investigates the migration of these Chicago church
members, revealing how these churches not only failed to inhibit
white flight, but actually facilitated the congregations'
departure. Using a wealth of both archival and interview data,
Mulder sheds light on the forces that shaped these midwestern
neighborhoods and shows that, surprisingly, evangelical religion
fostered both segregation as well as the decline of urban
stability. Indeed, the Roseland and Englewood stories show how
religion - often used to foster community and social connectedness
- can sometimes help to disintegrate neighborhoods. Mulder
describes how the Dutch CRC formed an insular social circle that
focused on the local church and Christian school - instead of the
local park or square or market - as the center point of the
community. Rather than embrace the larger community, the CRC
subculture sheltered themselves and their families within these two
places. Thus it became relatively easy - when black families moved
into the neighborhood - to sell the church and school and relocate
in the suburbs. This is especially true because, in these
congregations, authority rested at the local church level and in
fact they owned the buildings themselves. Revealing how a dominant
form of evangelical church polity - congregationalism - functioned
within the larger phenomenon of white flight, Shades of White
Flight lends new insights into the role of religion and how it can
affect social change, not always for the better.
Deception by Design provides a comprehensive study of Mormonism;
exposes the surprising source of Joseph Smith's "conversion" story;
reveals the immense influence of others on Smith's beliefs; equips
evangelical Christians with principals for witnessing to
Mormons.
"Allen Harrod has written a wonderfully helpful and insightful
book on Mormonism. It is both original in its research, as well as
in its offering helpful conclusions and applications regarding the
nature and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints." --Dr. R. Philip Roberts, president, Midwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary
"Deception by Design represents the best book I have seen in
terms of explicating the beliefs and theology of Mormonism and at
the same time providing superb approaches to presenting the claims
of Christ to Mormons." --Dr. Paige Patterson, Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary
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