The great 19th-century American evangelist Charles Finney once declared, “I cannot believe that a person who has ever known the love of God can relish a secular novel.” And he went on to denounce explicitly Lord Byron, Walter Scott, even Shakespeare. Now such attitudes may strike some as strange, yet, historically, some American evangelicals have been suspicious toward secular literature. To give us the tools we need to know whether that attitude is justified, Louise Cowan and Os Guinness …
Classic Fiction Every Christian Should Read
ONE Audiobooks Staff Picks Done with consuming light and tired content with borderline silly plots that bring little spiritual value? Enter, classic fiction. The stories listed below span hundreds of years and are sure to provide you with plenty of spiritual food for thought. Go through them with a few friends for even more benefit to your soul! Listening is one of the best ways to engage classic fiction (in our …
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Who Is Your Master? A Christmas Carol
No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.- Matthew 6:24 Charles Dickens’ most famous work, A Christmas Carol, has become a staple of Christmas traditions and is shared in many homes - regardless of religious beliefs. However, this charming and nostalgic tale is full of biblical values and retains a starkly Christian framework. A Christmas Carol is …
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Guard Our Hearts: Sense and Sensibility
Thou knowest the infirmity of our Nature, and the temptations which surround us. Be thou merciful, Oh Heavenly Father! to Creatures so formed and situated.Jane Austen In Sense and Sensibility, Elinor and Marianne are quite different in their outlook on life, their opinions, and their emotional makeup. Where Elinor is sensible and level-headed, Marianne is romantic, full of feeling, and sees the world in full color. However, though they are unalike in many ways, Elinor and Marianne know one …
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Redeeming the Time: Sense and Sensibility
Another day is now gone, & added to those, for which we were before accountable. Teach us Almighty Father, to consider this solemn Truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, & every hour as it passes, & earnestly strive to make a better use of what Thy Goodness may yet bestow on us, than we have done of the Time past. Mrs. John Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility is perhaps the greediest and most self-centered character in Jane Austen’s novels. When her …
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The Least of These: Little Women
Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”MATTHEW 25:40 NIV “And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.” Little Women, Chapter 2 Jo finds “a little crimson-covered book” under her pillow on Christmas morning—a copy of “that beautiful …
